YOTSUYA: YELP at Siddique Palace for some amazing belly dancing and incredibly delicious instant Butter Chicken and Lamb Curry!

This night our amazing YELP Tokyo Community Manager Rika set up the perfect event with a great Belly Dance team from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and instant curry straight out of little boxes~... the best instant I've ever tasted!

The night was so incredibly windy and cold!  Proud Yelp sign laid out on the steps...

Counter seating area for 8.

The owner doing a bit of MC.  Yelps official photographer... He brought along his Canon 5D and brand new Canon 7D Mark II with a 24-70mm lens.  

I met a fellow Elite this night.. Mr. Toshi in Blue.  One of the best thing about these events is that you will meet so many great people who are so social and if you continue to attend the friendly regulars are always there.

The beautiful and talented belly dancers from TUFS Belly Dance Club

東京外国語大学 ベリーダンスクラブ.  I've watched belly dancers thru the years but honestly the first time I really enjoyed all the different performances.  Spot on super.

http://tufsbellydance.wix.com/tufsbellydance

26min video taken with my little Sony HDR-AS10 Action Cam.

Lots of great performances!

https://twitter.com/tufsbellydance

With the capacity of this restaurant at 92 and having 140 Yelpers I waited until the very end when the line died down before giving food a try.  The butter chicken was so deep and rich... yum!

Lamb curry was also incredibly tasty.

And so this is where we all found out that the curry being served was instant box curry!  Definitely a fan but being instant we weren't exposed to the authentic food that this restaurant actually makes... a bit unfortunate. 

If you aren't a Yelper please download the app and begin!  You won't find a better group of Community Managers, Elites and super friendly people who all love food.

YELP Official Flickr Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/yelp/sets/72157648512224344/

The final dance with Yelpers

I leave you with a 2015 Maserati GranTurismo Convertible. Dealership located on the same block as Siddique Palace. 

Restaurant: Siddique Palace Yotsuya-Kojimachi Branch

Siddique Website: http://www.siddique.co.jp/

Tabelog Foodie Website: http://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1308/A130803/13050537/

Address J: 東京都千代田区麹町5-3 第７秋山ビル

Address E: Tokyo, Chiyoda-ku, Kojimachi 5-3
MAP: https://goo.gl/maps/rhZ6r

東京外国語大学 ベリーダンスクラブ, ベリーダンス, 東京外国語大学, belly dance club, tufs, Japan, Japanese, foodie, pentax mx-1, hd, video, sony as10, sophia university

AOYAMA: NATARAJ Vegetarian restaurant... a first for me! Plus all you can eat Buffet~

4 vegetarian curry choices :)

Green vegan nan!

2 types of dressing... Japanese sesame and carrot

Its a blur but description of the 4 types of curries.

My absolute favorite was the Pumpkin curry... it was nice and creamy versus the others that were more watery soupy. The Nan here is so great... its a bit fluffy and chewy.

Overall I really liked this place.  I rarely find any vegan restaurants in Tokyo and a random search for Indian buffet in the area landed me at NATARAJ. 

Located in the same building as Benjamin Moore!

And if in the area you MUST check out the Lexus showroom just across the street (facing TESLA Aoyama).

Prototype RC300h on display

Restaurant: Nataraj Vegetarian Restaurant

Nataraj Website: http://www.nataraj.co.jp/

Tabelog Foodie Website: http://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1306/A130603/13004739/

Address J: 東京都港区南青山2-22-19 三和青山ビル B1F

Address E: Tokyo, Minato-ku, Minami Aoyama 2-22-19
MAP: https://goo.gl/maps/vvCsl

ナタラジ, 南青山, インドカレー, ランチ,バイキング, Japan, Japanese, Tokyo, foodie, canon 420f, yelp, tokyobelly, all you can eat, buffet, india, curries,