Chen Kenichi has three restaurants. His original restaurant (Szechwan Restaurant) is in Akasaka. A few years ago (when Iron Chef stopped filming) he opened up a Tokyo branch of Szechwan Restaurant. The Toyko restaurant serves the same food as his Akasaka restaurant, from what I read Chen spends most of his time at the Akasaka location but has been known to show up at the Tokyo one from time to time. He has a third restaurant that (Shisen Hanten) opened even more recently, Shisen Hanten is a very fancy restaurant that only accepts reservations for two or more people and they have a $60.00 minimum order per person at the table. Unless I can find someone to go with me I will not be going to Shisen Hanten.
I do have reservations at Szechwan tonight for 7:30pm. I had a co-worker print me out maps and information and she mentioned an easier way to get there.. I was going to take the Keio Line from Shinjuku to Meidai-mae and switch to another Keio Line from Meidai-mae to Shibuya. She mentioned the Yamanote Line which is a JR line, this line connects Shinjuku to Shibuya directly and is only two stops from one to the other!! This is the way she goes home so the plan is for her to leave with me and guide me over to the restaurant.
By the way, if you want to see a crazy train map check out the JR line map. Remember from the other day that the JR line is the commuter rail and the Keio lines are the subways. Oh yeah bitches, I just linked my own blog in my blog!!
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I went to the sushi restaurant again today. I got the same thing I got yesterday but today it had TORO as one of the pieces of sushi!! I almost crapped myself... $14.00 for 10 pieces of nigri sushi, 1 maki roll and miso soup. For that $14.00 one of the 10 pieces was toro! Toro in American is more that $14.00 in itself! The ten pieces were salmon, tuna, abalone, egg, roe, squid, eel, toro, mackerel and shrimp. The Abalone was really good by the way, I think it was cut too thick at Nobu.
When I walked into the sushi restaurant today the three chefs and the waitress yelled "welcome" and one of the sushi chefs pointed to a chair for me to sit in. The first two times I went there the waitress met me at the door and walked me to a seat, it felt pretty good to be welcomed like that today.. :D Will be going back tomorrow.. Good sushi everyday for lunch makes me happy.. :D
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