Szechwan Restaurant Akasaka - Subtle Plainness
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An elegant corner of Szechwan Restaurant Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan.
Szechwan Restaurant Akasaka has been serving Szechwan cuisine in Tokyo since 1970, and is famous as being the first restaurant to introduce Szechwan cuisine to Japan. The current owner, Chen Kenichi - son of the founder - is also famous as the "Iron Chef Chinese" on the Iron Chef TV series.
Kenichi's son, Kentaro, runs another of the several Szechwan Restaurants in Tokyo: the Szechwan Restaurant Chen, in Shibuya.
A group of us went to Szechwan Restaurant Akasaka last Sunday for dinner, and we chose it because one of us is a vegetarian, and Szechwan Restaurant, with its extensive choice of tofu-based dishes, has a reputation for particularly vegetarian friendly Chinese food.
Szechwan Restaurant Akasaka is, properly speaking, in Hirakawacho, not Akasaka, which is across Aoyama-dori (Route 246). Hirakawacho is much more a business district than it is residential, so Sunday evening was somewhat empty. Like most restaurants in this part of Tokyo, it no doubt relies more on lunch than dinner.
The delicious start to our meal at Szechwan Restaurant Akasaka, Tokyo.
Szechwan Restaurant is on the 5th and 6th floor, with a somewhat elegant entrance, albeit in that heavy, wooden Chinese style, but relieved by being bright and spacious. Inside the restaurant is quite plain, with just a few big paintings and pieces of calligraphy on the walls as decoration. For friends, the atmosphere is g...
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