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Eat Tokyo, Soho

Last Friday night after work K and I met up with some friends and we went to this Japanese restaurant in Soho that is called Eat Tokyo.  I don't know why I have not even heard of this place but it was proper busy.  We were late by a bit more than 15 minutes and the waitress had to give up our table.  Thankfully we didn't have to wait too long in the cold to get our table of 5.  Our friends warned us that the portions are huge in this place, so a good suggestion was to order a variety of dishes and we all share.

That was such a great idea.  We ordered a sashimi boat, a plate of Japanese curry rice (double size), a sushi plate and a tempura bento box set that came with rice and miso soup.  There were 3 guys and 2 girls.  We polished up everything and felt so stuffed.  In a happy way of course.

Sashimi boat with a bonsai plant no less

Some of the fresh sashimi we had

Close up of the bonsai tree lol


After dinner, RX then decided to get bubble tea from the cafe across the street.  Mind you this is bubble tea in London prices so she paid like GBP3.50 for a bubble milk tea.  I was queueing up with her when suddenly the Chinese girl at the counter told us "tonight, buy one get one free".  To counter the post holiday blues she said, we could choose between a grapefruit tea with pearls, or a Japanese tea with pearls.  I looked at her and said "oh no I'm not ordering so I am not getting a free one".  And she said "no problem, you get a free one, and your friend too."  Seriously such a great deal - buy one get 2 free!  Awesome.  "I will have the grapefruit flavour with pearls, thank you."

The Kims

Look at the size of our curry rice.  The size of the plate could be as big as a pizza.  Shocking.

The boys

Right so we were stuffed and with 3 cups of bubble tea in hand, we decided to head to Lawrence's pad in central London.  It was so nice to end of another mundane work week with friends, laughing and chatting until we almost had to catch our last train home.

We will be back to Eat Tokyo for sure!

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