Looking for delicious Japanese food in Little Tokyo?
RIKE offers a yummy karaage bento box!
Karaage was juicy and flavorful. They use Yuki Tsubaki premium Koshihikari rice. So delicious.
Tsurumaru udon is offering new Autumn pumpking menu now. I love pumpkins and pumpkin dashi udon was delicious. Dashi soup was so tasty, I actually saved half of the soup and made porridge on the next day.
Rice and Nori, new onigiri (rice balls) place recently opened in Little Tokyo.
It's perfect lunch spot and you can buy one onigiri for around $3-$4. Everything was really delicious. Handrolls were good, but I really recommended you to try rice balls and tonjiru soup with it.
Match Horchata / Lychee lemonade / Pineapple Yuzu / Kyoho grape yogurt My favorite was kyoho grape.
chocolate mousse and caramel crispy were made by the owner.
Karayama just opened last week in Little Tokyo. Famous for crispy exterior that remains crispy even when it's cold, Karayama started as a mom-and-pop shop in Asakusa Tokyo, then grew into 50+ locations in Japan and in Asia. This is the first U.S. location of Karayama.
Kara-tama don
Red hot fried chicken sandwich set
Goku-dare fried chicken sandwich set
Super juicy inside
Karaage stir-fry set
Karayama set
Karaage with black vinegar set
This was my favorite. Recommended.
Karaage curry set
Spicy shrimp curry set
There are 3 pieces of shrimp. Wish more than that, still it was good
Kura sushi is having Japan fair in Hokkaido & Tohoku from 7/13-7/22. It's been a while since my last visit. Most sushi is $2.75 a plate.
This place was busy and wait hour was one hour during dinner time. So we walked around in the area and killed some time and came back. You get text message. Waited one hour but we only stayed there 15 minutes.
They do validate parking ticket if you park at Japanese village plaza parking lot (1st / central) , but validation is only good for one hour and waiting hour is one hour. Since I know the area well, I got 2hr validation somewhere else.
Anyway, my visit at Kura was really bad. Food quality was worth than I thought. Rice seems like made with machine, all crabs tasted frozen, some of them were too much sauce on it, I ordered everything with touch panel so it should be fresh, but I felt like everything we got was not fresh.
And it really made me angry when other family behind me dropped food and fell off on my $2000 leather purse! I just left right away.
After coming here I told myself, never again. It's not worth the wait. Don't waste your time.
Revolving sushi bar is fun and it's popular in Japan because it's fast, fun, and cheap. But I'm not sure how fresh they are, specially here in L.A. I feel like some of them are just sitting there forever.
Only available during this week.
This is touch panel. You can order what you want, and it'll arrive at your table.
Everything is $2.75 each except 3 pieces one.
Umami oil seared beef was too greasy, don't get that one.
Salmon skin sushi
Snow mountain roll. Too much sauce, crab tasted frozen, nothing looks like picture.
Dessert $3.20 Of course I ordered with touch panel so why it's melting already? I was really sad.
