• 5
• The only place we went in Tokyo

Before we came to Tokyo, we spent 11 days travelling through Japan-seeing at least a new city every day, and we covered the entire island of Kyushu. We came around Christmas/new years-and the dates we were in Tokyo for was January 1-4th-a date when apparently most of Japan takes a holiday. I meticulously went through the Happy Cow ratings, and found many restaurant/locales were closed for the holidays or hard to find (after days in Japan, we got tired of not finding the places) . T's Tan Tan were closed for our first day, so on our second day we finally made it, and we loved it. We decided to try out all their ramen-and that just fitted in with out meal plan for Tokyo. Just having a 'easy' vegan place to eat felt like a luxury. The hours were wonderful, we had breakfast there at 8 am, and found they have a breakfast menu. I had the curry for 540yen, and a coffee for a extra 100 yen. My partner regularly ordered the large noodles (100 yen)-which means a double portion of noodle. If you're hungry, or not sure, just get the large noodles as it's a negligible cost, and well it's a seemingly bottomless bowl of vegan ramen. All the ramens were good, from left to right, top to bottom on the menu, my favourite were: the second (black sesame), third (gold seseme), and fourth (sweet sour). Top favs were were 2 & 4. The gyoza are good, and worth trying once (the menu has sets that allow add-ons of gyoza, curry, or fried "meat" for a lower price, breakfast offers coffee/tea for a lower price). They offer chili pepper to add to your ramen. The locale is very cosmopolitan, and while Japanese, you can hear a lot of continental English. It's also very busy, and you need to wait to be seated. They give a lot of very cold water. So big pros: easy-to -find location in Tokyo, that's quite accessible. Hours. Price (while we don't mind spending 3000 yen on food---our eyes do water after seeing bills for 7000 and over. It's hard to see that at T's, and just nice to feel like one can eat out without worrying). I worked for years in a Japanese kitchen, so I know the cuisine inside-out. Ramen, for me is something special-but one thing I must resort to making at home. I liked this place for the way they make new flavours that I did not use in ramen, it's 100% vegan, so no need to make a risk. I just find the chance for vegan ramen so rare and special, it needs to be tried in full-so we did for breakfast lunch and diner-and we also noticed some repeat customers there.