GreetinEt tu, OOTOYA?

This desk has often discussed Japanese cuisine, how it's accepted worldwide, etc. but only on topics like Sushi, Tempura, etc and seldom on minor street-corner eating joints.

Our equivalents to Royal Host and Denny's are Aiya and Tonden and a recent entry OOTOYA. Additive-sensitive Japanese prefer this restaurant to others as it serves organic foodstuff done in traditional Japanese home cooking style. This desk has an OOTOYA a ten-minute drive away and occasionally enjoys their sophisticated broiled fish. 

Now, it's gratifying to know that our friends in New York can enjoy the same broiled fish. Et tu, !OOTOYA? Here's an episode of this innocent, local eating joint in NY of all towns in the US.

The first OOTOYA opened in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, in 1958. It was no restaurant of any name but a rusty eating joint serving Teishoku - a set menu of small dishes for customers to pick always flocked by starving students. That was half a century ago. Now, they operate some 250 stores around the world - two in NY, 29 in Thailand, 22 in Taiwan 3 Hong Kong, etc.

A reporter from New York puts it that OOTOYA is constantly full, more queuing up for 90 minutes. He thought little of this restaurant back home and was dumfounded to find it so well received by local NewYorkers. Dumfounded because OOTOYA is no dating spot for dandy young men would care to entertain their girlfriends. The menu is the same, he says, and the prices three times higher.

Amazingly, they serve every item unlocalized - that is as they are prepared and served in Japan.

The point is OOTOYA is an authentic family restaurant not in the same sense Denny's and Royal Host are but that what they serve are deliciously in line with Japan's home cooking style. This desk, no member of OOTOYA holdings, takes pride in inviting all fans of Japanese cuisine to take a bit at home-cooked meal - preferably the broiled fish!

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