五目そば + エビチャーハン / Gomoku Soba + Ebi Chahan / Banraien - Ōimachi, Tokyo
Gomoku Soba consists of starch-thickened chicken and vegetable shoyu soup, wavy thin noodles and an assortment of toppings such as fried shrimp, squid, wood ear mushrooms, napa cabbage, carrots and negi. The recommended chahan is wok-fried two times to remove as much moisture as possible. Banraien is a Chinese course restaurant, run by master Shogo Nakano-san. For dinner service, there is no menu and no price, customers only inform the staff how much they want to spend at the time of making the reservation. Lunch service is headed by the master's son, Yūto Nakano-san. Some years back, Yūto competed on the TV show Iron Chef against Suga-san of the Tokyo restaurant SUGALABO. Lunch service is one hour only, from 12pm to 1pm (last order at 12:30) five days a week. Open since 1974.
