Tokyo Belly: 阿佐ヶ谷

Thursday, April 25, 2013

ASAGAYA: Gyoza-Bo Cho-Hakkai REVISTED with family and kids! Absolutely DELICIOUS!!

Good friend of mine invited me to everyone's favorite Gyoza-Bo Cho-Hakkai with his mother in law, wife and two little children. Needed to book the 2nd floor three weeks in advance and even that far back only a weekday was available.

Perfect for anyone with a family...

The MENU!

Special sauces

Very cool looking shrine on the 2nd floor.

From the 2nd floor you order via this tube that goes directly to the 1st floor kitchen.

Buzz Lightyear... and Beer.

This cold shredded seasoned daikon with red spice was oishii.

Chinese Sake with dried Umeboshi

Very flavorful rice with meat wrapped in a leaf.

GYOZA HUNTER "Man versus Dumplings" by Phillip Kendal article in the bathroom.

http://www.tokyoweekender.com/2012/09/gyoza-hunting-for-the-best-in-tokyo/

We ate and drank and ate and ate til we were all totally stuffed and the bill came out to around 10,000yen. The food was once again amazingly delicious, 2nd floor extremely comfortable/private and service was spot on amazing... Husband and Wife team really appreciates the customers and all smiles. YOU MUST GO!!!

SHOP: Gyoza-Bo Cho-Kakkai Gyoza Shop
LOCATION: Asagaya Station
Foodie Website: http://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1319/A131905/13090377/
Address J: 東京都杉並区阿佐谷南3-37-5
Address E: Tokyo, Suginami-ku, Asagaya 3-37-5

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Saturday, October 23, 2010

ASAGAYA: Gyoza-Bo Cho-Hakkai GYOZA Shop... simply excellent!

A little gem in Asagaya that is inexpensive and super oishii... this is Cho-Hakkai. Scott from Hawaiis Own Coffee Company invited me out to check out one of his favorite spots in Asagaya.

We were a group of 8 and started off with the Chinese Nabe (Hotpot?), serving size was for 3-4 but it was just the right amount as we ordered so many amazing Gyoza and dumplings.

This is a must.. Gyoza but each piece slightly connected to each other. 540yen.

Super tasty dumplings with some kind of chinese sauce...500yen.

Flavored chilled Potato. Yuuuum. 400yen.

More dumpings. Shrimp! The food just kept coming so I don't know what these were.

Steamed dumplings... 500yen.

Slices of boneless fried chicken under some tasty seasoning.

Amazing meal ended with noodles in the remaining Hotpot soup. A perfect close to an amazing meal.... i mean there were so many oishii's flying around by everyone.

Final closer... sweet Annin-dofu.

This stairwell was so small... if you are planning on dining on the 2nd floor please consider the overall size of your guests... they will have to squeeze into this small hole to reach the top.

Looking down from the window.

2nd floor just big enough to fit 8 comfortably.

Bill came out to roughly 5,000yen per person (and thats with ordering around 8 bottles of korean style makkoli sake, beer and Japanese sake)... Janken to see who got the 1,000yen change.