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Time once again for Gaijin Gourmet. Today’s episode is the definitive episode for people on a budget in Tokyo who want to eat healthy and safe food and love noodles – and draft beer for super cheap (read on!)
Today’s post is about what I think is the best soba restaurant chain in Tokyo. It is a Soba restaurant chain that is all over Tokyo and, in my expert opinion, blows away the competition when it comes to price, quality, taste and cleanliness; Yude Taro （ゆで太郎）. Yude Taro has, hands down, the best inexpensive and delicious noodles.
There are other chains that have a similar menu as Yude Taro and might be ¥10 ~ ¥30 cheaper ($0.10 ~ $0.30 USD) per dish, but they can’t touch the taste and food quality. Here I am specifically talking about the big soba chains in Tokyo: Fuji Soba and Yoshi Soba, etc., .. Folks, Yude Taro beats them all hands down.
Yude Taro Near Yoyogi JR Station
Here is the Yude Taro near Yoyogi station that I go to often. But, you can just look for this blue logo:
ゆで太郎ロゴ
Yude Taro logo
What does “Yude Taro” mean? Well, Taro is the most common boy’s name in Japan. “Yude” means “boiled.” So, “Yude Taro” means something like “Boiled John” or David or Mike….
Here’s their menu that I screen captured from their webpage:
As you can see, most bowls of soba items on the menu are under ¥500 (about $4 USD). If you want a little more, the highest priced set on the entire menu is a fried pork cutlet on rice along with a bowl of soba (top left hand corner photo) at ¥650 (about $5.42 USD). Really, I’ve eaten 1000 times at these stand up soba shops over these last three decades. Yude Taro is the best.
Meal Tickets – With photos!
And you can’t read the menu? It doesn’t really matter as you can see the pictures on the meal ticket machine at every shop.
Yude Taro displays the menu
There’s tens of thousands of these stand-up soba shops in Tokyo. They all have a glass case in front showing the main menu; but just look for the one with the blue logo. Usually, these places are in front of the big train stations and you can find a few competing chains right by each other.
Inside of Yude Taro
The Yude Taro I go to has a very large eating area and even seating enough for about 14 people. Don’t even bother going there between 12 noon to 1:00 pm or so. This particular Yude Taro can seat 14, but during the lunch time rush, I’ve been in there when there were more than 25 people eating and another 20 people standing in line. It’s OK, though, because most of the time, you can be in and out of a Yude Taro in 10 minutes so it’s a great deal for the person on the go and on a budget.
Clean Kitchen at Yude Taro
The noodles are best at all the chains here at Yude Taro because they make the noodles on the premises and then boil. Most of the other chains open a plastic pack with noodles and heat them up. As you know, there’s no way a packaged refrigerated item can beat the taste of a freshly cooked one.
This is medium sized soba with a softly boiled egg. ¥470 (about $3.91)… And, as you know, this is Japan so there is no tipping.
I eat the medium soba, ¥420 (about $3.50) with the fried veggies ¥100 (about $0.83) and grated radish ¥100 (about $0.83). I get a full stomach and the total damages are about 15 minutes at lunch and about $5.16 (USD). What a GREAT deal!
BUT WAIT! WHAT’S THIS???? DRAFT BEER FOR ¥220!???? That’s right! Yude Taro is running a summer 2015 campaign and is offering draft Sapporo Black Label draft beer for ¥220 (about $1.83 USD) a glass? That’s cheaper per drink than buying a can of beer at the convenience store! AMAZING.
Most cheaper drinking establishments charge twice that price for a draft beer!
¥220 Yen beer campaign over summer!? Wow!
Yude Taro wins the soba wars. Just look for the blue logo I have shown at the top of this article. Yude Taro is so good that I can honestly say that, if I really had to, I could eat there three meals a days. It’s that good.
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Looking for more great deals on cheap eats in Japan?:
Gaijin Gourmet: The Best Premium Salad Bar in Tokyo? – Sizzler in Setagaya robot55.jp/blog/gaijin-gourmet-the-best-premium-salad-bar-in-tokyo-sizzler-in-setagaya/
Gaijin Gourmet! Great Cheap and Delicious Soba in Gaienmae on Ginza Line! robot55.jp/blog/gaijin-gourmet-great-cheap-and-delicious-soba-in-gaienmae-on-ginza-line/
The Gaijin Gourmet: The Best Salad Bar Deal in Tokyo at Big Boy – My Favorite Rock N Roll Diner!! robot55.jp/blog/the-gaijin-gourmet-the-best-salad-bar-deal-in-tokyo-at-big-boy-my-favorite-rock-n-roll-diner/
Tokyo’s Best Cheap Sushi is in Okachimachi!? 東京の一番安くて美味しい寿司屋？御徒町にあるの？ http://robot55.jp/blog/tokyos-best-cheap-sushi-in-okachimachi/
The Gaijin Gourmet: Soba Wars At Hanzomon Station in Tokyo robot55.jp/blog/gaijin-gourmet-soba-wars-at-hanzomon-station-in-tokyo/
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Looking for the best Salad Bar in Tokyo?
Well, I’ve introduced you to Big Boy, which offers an All-You-Can-Eat Salad bar for ¥590! (about $5 USD + 8% sales tax – no tips in Japan!). But my vegetarian friend, Ken says that, even though he likes Big Boy, if he goes on a date or takes his wife and kids out, they sometimes like Sizzler better.
Sizzler does have a much nicer Salad Bar with a much wider selection of fresh vegetables, but it is nearly 4 times the price of Big Boy; so it’s up to you!
I have to admit, though, when it is a special occasion or birthday, my son always says he wants to go to Sizzler… Even though he likes Big Boy too. The big sales point for him at Sizzler is the All-You-Can-Eat ice cream bar. The all you can eat Salad Bar, Soup Bar and Drink Bar at Sizzler is included in the price of the Salad Bar so that’s to be considered… Whereas, at Big Boy, they are all a separate charge.
And when you have a bunch of kids who want to eat several scoops of ice cream and chocolate (At Big Boy, one ice cream is about ¥300 (about $2.50 USD), then Sizzler does make sense if you are watching your pennies (and have kids – or dad – who eat too many sweets….)
Sizzler is about 6 minutes walk from the west exit of Sakura Shnmachi station on the Denen-Toshi line about 12 minutes from Shibuya heading towards Kanagawa. The restaurant is open from 11 am until 11 pm seven days a week. Here is their webpage (sorry Japanese only!)
The salad bar there is fantastic. The place is extremely clean and kept quite nice. The food is always fresh (I’ve been there dozens and dozens of times).
The all you can eat lunch bar includes bread, soup, drink and dessert bar. Lunch all you can eat is ¥1980 (about $16 USD + 8% sales tax – no tips in Japan!))
Dinner all you can eat is ¥2380 (about $19.18 + 8% sales tax – no tips in Japan!)
It’s the best salad bar deal I’ve ever seen in Tokyo. The food is good, I can relax, and the kids love the place. Everyone can find what they want at Sizzler in Setagaya.
Here, let me allow the photos to do the talking.
Outside view of building from 246 heading toward Shibuya. Beautiful newly reformed building. Parking for about 28 cars.
Quite spacious inside. This photo is about 1/4 of the entire restaurant so it seats a few hundred easily.
Large salad and fruits bar. Seriously, it’s huge and the size of a salad bar you’d see in the United States.
About 21 different vegetables and organic tofu seen here.
12 different mixed salads here…. Seafood salad, Waldorf salad, others…
As well as apples, white and pink grapefruit sliced, bananas, orange slices, pineapple, peaches, as well as diced onions, shredded lettuce, olives, jalapenos, mixed cheese and salsa which is for…
…the burritos you can make yourself. Taco meat and melted cheese for cheese nachos, gratin, spaghetti and curry rice are also available on the salad bar menu at no extra charge…
There is also soup bar that offers at least three types of soup daily
Of course, there are several styles of bread to choose from…
The drink bar offers everything you can think of….
And, of course, the kid’s favorite, the dessert bar. Shoe-cream, coffee cake, chocolate mousse, apple strudel, three flavors of soft cream “ice cream” and chocolate and all sort of goodies that the kids like to sprinkle on top. Beware parents! The chocolate fountain pictured is only out on weekends and weeknights after 6 pm!
The address is:
Setagaya Sizzler
Sakura Shinmachi 1 – 33 – 5
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
Tel: 03 – 3705 – 4919
東京都世田谷桜新町１−３３−５
Take the west exit from Sakura Shinmachi station. Turn left down Sazai-san street. When you get to the police box turn right and go up the hill. It’s a one-way street. Follow the road up and turn to your left at the end. Sizzler will be on your left. Can’t miss it.
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Looking for more great deals on cheap eats in Japan?:
Tokyo’s Best Cheap Sushi is in Okachimachi!? 東京の一番安くて美味しい寿司屋？御徒町にあるの？ http://robot55.jp/blog/tokyos-best-cheap-sushi-in-okachimachi/
The Gaijin Gourmet: Soba Wars At Hanzomon Station in Tokyo robot55.jp/blog/gaijin-gourmet-soba-wars-at-hanzomon-station-in-tokyo/
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Hey! It’s a Friday in Japan and that means it’s time for the weekend! Finally! And the weekend means it’s also time for the second edition of Top 3 Videos – Weekend Edition for May 29, 2015. Can you believe that it’s almost June? The year is almost half over!
I’d like to say thanks to all the bands and labels that have started reaching out to us. With your help, we are able to make this countdown twice a week so keep the videos coming!
First off today is a band I just discovered about 30 minutes ago. If you loved the seventies punk band, X-Ray Specs, then you are going to love this band! They are called the Downtown Boys. Punk News Org says this:
“Downtown Boys are a political punk band from Providence, Rhode Island, who shake things up in a variety of ways. They sing in English and Spanish, switching between languages with such seamless ease that even when listeners don’t understand the words, they still get the point.”
#3) Downtown Boys – Slumlord Sal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6vQHtICr8w
Next up is a girl’s band from Washington D.C. and they formed in 2013. This band is Mary, Betsy and Laura and they are called Ex Hex and they are fab! (Regular readers and listeners know that I always like bands with female vocals!) This reminds me of early Go-Gos or the Bangles (when they were called, “The Bangs” and didn’t become shitty commercialism).
#2) Ex Hex – Waterfall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AxIA4042WA
Next up is a band that is definitely going places! They are called The Mirror Trap and they are not newcomers to our chart. The Mirror Trap is an alternative indie rock band from Dundee, Scotland. The band have released two albums to date and they have supported fellow Dundee band The View and toured Russia with Placebo in the summer of 2014.
#1) The Mirror Trap – Silent Men https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXmAaSBY8dM
Finally, this week’s freebie! And it’s a Japanese band that were guests on our program a few weeks ago. Their name is Sawagi and they are from Kansai. Sawagi are a rock-dance music quartet band that incorporates jazz and funk.
オマケ：Sawagi – Fuss Uppers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmh5nrU0Xi4
Well, that’s it for this week! See you next time. Keep rocking and have a great weekend!
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Welcome Tokyo travelers to another installment of “Gaijin Gourmet” or “Great places to eat in Tokyo for Super-Cheapskates (like me)” written and researched by me, Mike Rogers, cheap-bastard connoisseur extraordinaire and one of Japan’s top Gaijin experts on good tachi-gui (stand up and eat) soba shops.I’ve been doing these specials shows for your folks who will be traveling to Tokyo for the Tokyo Olympics and don’t want to spend $500 (USD) for a Tuna Sandwich every time you need to eat! (OK. $500 is a bit of an exaggerration… Writer’s privilege and all…)
Today, I’d like to introduce you to a shop named Shinetsu near Gaienmae Station.
This place is excellent soba for the price!
Shinetsu, interestingly, is located right next door to one of the finest (and most expensive) Italian restaurants in Tokyo: Sabatini. I thought that was funny because a fine Italian dinner with some Italian guys singing the same old 8 songs over and over right into your ear at your table as well as wine for two next door at Sabatini can easily run ¥50,000 yen! ($600 USD)
Whereas Sabatini is great for expensive Italian, so is Shinetsu for delicious cheap-assed soba! But, I reckon if you were going on an important date with that special someone or planning to do something stupid, like say, propose marriage, then Sabatini is probably a better bet. Just a guess….
Or, if you have a sense of humor, you could tell her that you are taking her “Someplace special. How about something realy special like Sabatini?” When she smiles and says, “Oh, Brad!” You know you’ve got her! (Get it? It is like Sabatini; they are both near Gaienmae station exit #3)
Whereas Sabatini is great for expensive Italian, so is Shinetsu for delicious cheap-assed soba! But, I reckon if you were going on an important date with that special someone or planning to do something stupid, like say, propose marriage, then Sabatini is probably a better bet. Just a guess….
Or, if you have a sense of humor, you could tell her that you are taking her “Someplace special. How about something realy special like Sabatini?” When she smiles and says, “Oh, Brad!” You know you’ve got her! (Get it? It is like Sabatini; they are both near Gaienmae station exit #3)
Bwa! Ha! Ha! If she doesn’t walk out on you when you walk into the stand up soba, then you’ve found a real keeper!
This meal with cold soba, inari sushi
This meal with cold soba, inari sushi and tempura topping for ¥540 and it tastes pretty delicious!
Two people can eat excellent soba and toppings freshly made on the premises for ¥1,200 (the water is free and all-you-can-drink!)
Extremely clean kitchen!
And, as usual, a spotless kitchen is a must for me and you can see into the kitchen from the counter at Shinetsu. The tempura and all toppings are made on premises and the soba is good quality for a extremely reasonable price.
Don’t bother going there right at lunch time between 12:00 noon and 1 pm on a weekday, because there will be a line and there’s no place to sit… Er, I mean, there’s never any place to sit anyway – so it’s not good for a first date – but fantastic for a quick lunch for the businessman or traveler on the run!
The place is about a 30 second walk from Gaienmae Station Exit 3.
Here’s the address:
Shinetsu Soba
Kita Aoyama 2-13-4 Tot Aoyama 1F.
東京都港区北青山2丁目13-4 ToT青山１F
Tot Aoyama Bldg. 1F
Kita Aoyama 2-13-4, Minato Ku, Tokyo
Here’s a map: http://yj.pn/bBNRd_
To get to Shinetsu Soba, take the Ginza line to Gaienmae. Exit 3. Thirty seconds walk.
To get to Shinetsu Soba, take the Ginza line to Gaienmae. Exit 3. Thirty seconds walk.
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Looking for more great deals on cheap eats in Japan?
The Gaijin Gourmet: The Best Salad Bar Deal in Tokyo at Big Boy – My Favorite Rock N Roll Diner! robot55.jp/blog/the-gaijin-gourmet-the-best-salad-bar-deal-in-tokyo-at-big-boy-my-favorite-rock-n-roll-diner/
Tokyo’s Best Cheap Sushi is in Okachimachi!? 東京の一番安くて美味しい寿司屋？御徒町にあるの？ http://robot55.jp/blog/tokyos-best-cheap-sushi-in-okachimachi/
The Gaijin Gourmet: Soba Wars At Hanzomon Station in Tokyo robot55.jp/blog/gaijin-gourmet-soba-wars-at-hanzomon-station-in-tokyo/
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At Robot55 we make video productions for businesses and services and products, but we also pride ourselves on making videos for art and music. Our starting price is ¥70,000 and we are sure we can work out something that fits your budget. Oh, and we love making band videos too! Contact us! contact@robot55.jp
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(At top, me holding the poster for the “Ventures Final Show in Japan.” I did drink with Don Wilson – the guy who is second from right – the one that looks like Rock N Roll Santa Claus. How could I forget that face? Nice guy.)
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This is a short post about some guys who really inspire me. You know them as “The Ventures.” They were huge in the sixties all over the western world.
They are still big in Japan…
Here’s what Wikipedia says about the Ventures: “The Ventures are an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington. Founded by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, the group in its various incarnations has had an enduring impact on the development of music worldwide. With over 100 million records sold, the group is the best-selling instrumental band of all time. In 2008, the Ventures were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their instrumental virtuosity, experimentation with guitar effects, and unique sound laid the groundwork for innumerable groups, earning them the moniker “The Band that Launched a Thousand Bands”.
While their popularity in the United States waned in the 1970s, the group remains revered in Japan, where they tour regularly to this day. ”
It’s true. The Ventures are still big in Japan.
May I brag? I have drank with Don Wilson at a rip-off bar in Roppongi before… I think that must have been in about 1988 or 1989. I have a photo around here someplace… If I can find it, I’ll put it into this blogpost. Don was a nice guy and the boss of the bar was kissing his ass the entire time I was there and Don put me on the guest list for the show… (So, how could I forget, no matter how drunk I was? And I mean, how many people look like Burl Ives or a a Surfer Santa Claus?)
And don’t really remember too much from that night excepting that Don was a nice guy, soft spoken, and I drank too much.
We drank Dom Perignon and it was outrageously expensive (I remember that). And I didn’t have to pay anything, they paid. I was blown away that they would pay for some shitty DJ in Japan’s drinks….
I vaguely remember the bar’s name, and I have been by there in the last few years but it is now gone.
Good riddance.
I think it was like ¥90,000 (almost a thousand US dollars) for a few bottles of Dom Perignon and some snacks. What a rip off! Thank God my girlfriend and I didn’t have to pay!
Anyway, like it says, the Ventures are still big (sort of) in Japan to this day. So big that they are actually having a “Final Show.” Well, what the hell? I guess so, I thought all the original members were dead?
Anyway, a Final Live, they have!
It’s kind of like my Punk Band when I was a youngster: every show we played was our “Final Show” (or “Last Final” or “Totally Final” or “Really, We’re Not Joking This Time, Final” or “Seriously, the Final Final.”)
But this just goes to show that if you have a brand and a name and an image, you gotta stick with it and live the dream.
The Ventures are playing Japan (again!) and the tickets are ¥6000 each! Holy Shit! That’s $50 (USD) a pop! And the venue they are playing at The Mozart Hall at Katsushika Symphony Hills Mozart Hall and that place holds about 1300 people! You do the math: $50 x 1300 = $65,000 to go to Japan and play one night? Why not?
And that’s not to mention what they get selling merchandise and a bunch of money from sponsors.
Is that cool or what?
So, well, the point is that:
1) Ventures are still big in Japan.
2) The Ventures can still come here and get paid to play and have fun.
3) They must all be in their late 60s or early 70s yet they can still tour the world and be treated like Rock Gods in Japan.
4) They probably still get to go out drinking in Japan and spend $1000 a night yet some rich Japanese person picks up the tab.
Scoff all you want… But you won’t find me disrespecting these people.
They rock! They have lived the true “Rock and Roll Dream.”
I wish I can do the same when I’m 70 years old! Don’t you?
NOTE: Holy Shit! I just found out that Don Wilson was born in Feb. 1933! That makes him 82 years old as of the writing of this article! Wow! What a wonderful life! And he is on his final tour of Japan! You rock Don!!!! You are a hero!
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