Tokyo Restaurants

  1. Hawker Style Asian Canteen

    Owned by a Japanese man who fell in love with 'chicken rice', the national dish of Singapore, Hawker Style Asian Canteen is a small slice of Southeast Asia in the heart of Roppongi. If you've never eaten chicken rice before, the dish is basically chicken and rice (no surprise there), though the accompanying sauces and broth (for cleansing the palette) can make this a truly sublime culinary experience.

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  2. Kao Tai

    From the bamboo-framed doorway leading downstairs to its snug dining room, Kao Tai feels like a warm slice of Southeast Asia. Most dishes are small-plate affairs, allowing you to sample and share while swigging a Singha. While not the most complicated Thai food around, the room's feel more than makes up for it.

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  3. Lotus Palace

    Lunch and dinner is an absolute steal at this foreigner-friendly Vietnamese noodle shop, which serves up set-course meals that are centred on huge bowls of pho and rounded out by shrimp spring rolls and mung bean pudding. If you need to put an extra spring in your step, the syrupy Vietnamese coffee with condensed milk will get you where you want to be.

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  4. Malaychan

    With its great location on a corner across from Nishi-Ikebukuro Park, Malaychan is Ikebukuro's most pleasant place to eat. Its Malaysian cuisine is also a rarity in Tokyo, serving a tasty breadth of dishes representing the country's multiethnic background.

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