About food in Japan

Tharros, Italian restaurant in Shibuya (渋谷) offers Wine Charity plan

Tharros, an Italian restaurant in Shibuya, featuring specifically south Italy and Sardinia food, started Charity Wine plan for their diners. As the charity plan, the first glass wine is offered to guests just at Yen100. If the guests would, they are encouraged to pay more than the price Yen100 and the amount will be contributed as donation to the earthquake and tsunami disaster relief.

The charity plan, named as "Gambari AMO" is offered until the end of July 2011, along with another promotion plan, stamp rally by which 5 stamps out of 10 Italian restaurants in Shibuya becomes a Yen 5000 voucher consumable at Tharros. 

Well, more about Tharros, it is situated a few minutes walk from Shibuya station and the "world-busiest" Shibuya crossing. In the area behind two big commercial complex, Tokyu Plaza and Shibuya Mark City, some interesting small restaurants can be found in addition to Tharros and Cowbelle which was introduced on this blog in the past.

 

South Italian style antipastini dishes

such as tuna, sardine, mushrooms... 

Sardinian pasta "fregula" with pork sausages looks like rice ...

but it is small pieces of pasta

"Pane frattau" Sardinia style lasagna with poached egg

With rich in seafood, olive oil and tomato sauce, their Italian dishes are healthy and good taste of course!

Let's enjoy healthy Italian and contribute to donation at the same time!

About Gambari AMO promotion plan, it is also available in English on eatpia.com.

http://www.eatpia.com/restaurant/tharros-shibuya-italian

Restaurant name: Tharros

Address: SEDE Building 1st floor, 1-5-2 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Website: http://www.tharros.jp

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Daichi no ki (大地の木), Takadanobaba (高田馬場) - Singaporean, Malaysian food

 Many Japanese people, including me who visited South East Asia, like Singapore style chicken rice (海南鶏飯, Hainanese chicken rice ). The typical hawker menu, cooked chicken with rice is available even in Tokyo by Malaysian chef. Daichi no ki (大地の木) is a small casual restaurant located in Takadanobaba (高田馬場), known as a "student town" in Tokyo.  

The restaurant offers wide selections of Asian food, Chinese small starter dishes, Korean hot pepper soup, Thai style salad etc. The atmosphere and the price are casual but the taste is authentic and appreciated by Asian food lovers in Tokyo. 

One of the speciality Singapore style chicken rice set menu, I had. Yes the spicy sauce and rice are similar to what I had in South East Asia. 

Another speciality of Daichi no ki is Penang style shrimp noodle. The noodle soup in red looks very hot and it is made with stock (bouillon) from lobster's head, which is very rate to find in Japan and also what I would like to try on my next visit.

By the way, the retsuarant name "Daichi no ki" is purely in Japanese, "tree on the land".

  

With the decoration and non-Japanese staff on the floor as well as the plates provided, I felt as if I were travelling in Singapore or  somewhere else in South East Asia. I enjoyed a very short "escape" to the south from Tokyo there.

By the way, related to Singapore, a travel seller group is sending a delegation team to Japan during this week. The team is reporting what's going on in Japan at this moment through their own eyes on facebook.

Please also check their facebook page liked to know how they see in Japan, if you would.

http://www.facebook.com/ChanBrothersTravelSG

 

Restaurant name: Daichi no ki (大地の木)

Address: Meiho Building 1st floor, 2-14-9 Shinjuku-ku, Takadanobaba, Tokyo

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