Ootoya - Food!

Restaurant Ootoya!

This will be the first food review of a restaurant in Japan. Until now I have eaten the most delicious food, but considering most of it has been of the fast food or cafeteria type I've decided not to bring those up unless they are exceptionally tasty.

Restaurant 大戸屋, Ootoya , is located near the river Sanjo and the road of kuwaramachidori. It is on google maps if you search for Ootoya, kyoto.

The restaurant is small but the staff are friendly and the food is excellent. Ordering food is a piece of cake because they have a picture based menu, a picture based and English menu and from what I've seen, 2 staff members that speak good English. I have been 2 times and have been surprised at how busy the restaurant was but that must be a good sign I suppose? It is slightly noisy though.

The food is about 700 yen (100 SEK) for a meal, that includes meat and rice and miso soup and if you order soft drinks it is all you can drink. I have had the ton katsu (fried pork) and chicken katsu (fried chicken) and have enjoyed both meals.

Ton Katsu

Food: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Atmosphere: 4/5
Price:4/5

Overall: 4/5

International House II - Welcome Party

I love I-House II. It beats any dorm that I have lived in so far (but maybe equals F4) hands down. I think it is a combination of the rooms, house layout, location, the manager and his wife and of course the other exchange students! Everyone gets along so easily and the parties are insane!

For the Welcome party the manger and his wife, the Moritas, cooked us Japanese food. Rice, curry, noodles, meat and gyouza (Chinese dumpling kind of things). These 2 are the nicest people and let us have parties as long as we are semi-quiet after 11 PM. They live here at I-House 2. But they do think that there is too much English being spoken and so they want to introduce a non-English and Swedish speaking day. There are 7 swedes here so it happens that all you can hear from the corridors is Swedish :|

The Moritas

Japanese Curry and rice - My favourite!