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Eat Mode
This smart little fusion diner covers the Pacific Rim in style. Order, take your number and plop down at a New Age marbled-wood table while they whip up your seaweed salad, California spring rolls or Thai tom yam goong soup. Does a booming takeaway trade too.
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Japanese Pancake World
If the Dutch are famous for pancakes of meat, seafood and veggies, so are the Japanese. At the continent's only shop specialising in okonomiyaki (literally, 'cook as you like'), you'll get yours in a hot iron dish with your choice of fillings and topped with flakes of dried bonito. There's a J-pop backdrop and barely two dozen seats.
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Lof
Chef Sander Louwerens combines Southeast Asian and Mediterranean flavours in complex and complementary ways. This is evidenced in dishes such as pike served with fennel and miso sauce. Schoolhouse-surplus décor manages to feel cool.
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Nam Kee
It won't win any design awards, but year in, year out, Nam Kee's the most popular Chinese spot in town. And why not: there's good roast anything, and service is snappy. A newer, fancier location is at Geldersekade 117.
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New King
If you want Chinese on the Zeedijk but don't want to feel like you're slumming it, New King is about the fanciest on the block. The roast meats may have you asking 'how much is that duckie in the window?' (around €24 with the full service of different courses.)
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Noodle & Go
Here's the formula: choose from noodles or fried rice, add meat (like chicken satay, coconut beef, spicy pork) and a vegetable, and you're on your way. It ain't gourmet, but it's quick and honest. There are a few seats and a TV to occupy yourself, or you could instead choose to simply sit and do a bit of people-watching.
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Oriental City
This huge Hong Kong-style restaurant with the requisite red lanterns is always lively. Join gaggles of local Chinese for daily dim sum ( to ; we like the meaty, flavoursome cha sieuw bao pork buns) and a 24-page menu (!) of classic Canto cuisine.
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Sea Palace
Funny thing about floating Chinese restaurants: they look like tourist traps and may well be, but from Hong Kong to Holland many are admired for good food. The Sea Palace's three floors are busy with Chinese and non, who come not just for great views of the city from across the IJ. Even if you order dim sum from a menu instead of a cart, the shrimp in the ha kow dumplings go pop in your mouth just the same.
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Stout
Slick, hip couples congregate at this airy, artful cafe to air-kiss, read design magazines, gossip and share imaginative fusion dishes (carrot and coriander soup with spicy tempeh, Thai chicken burger with kimchi) and fruit shakes. In warm weather, sit on an outdoor cushion and watch the world go by.
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Wagamama
The long rows of rectangular tables, laid out cafeteria-style, are often filled with hipsters fortifying themselves for bike trips or nights on the town. Staples include chicken ramen, Japanese curries and fried noodles or rice.
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Zen
Let's be frank: many Japanese restaurants are lovely, elegant poseurs. Zen, however, offers cooking like okāsan (mum) used to make: domburi (bowls of rice with various ingredients on top), sushi and tonkatsu (deep-fried pork cutlet) are just the start. Décor: minimalist Dutch-meets-Japanese. It's also popular for takeaway.
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