This is the first thing what my brother and I did when we reached Tokyo! We placed our luggage in the coin locker and headed straight to Ginza Kagari Honten for our first eat destination.
Ginza Kagari Honten 銀座 篝 本店
Hidden over here in one of the Ginza back alleys, about 3 to 5 minutes’ walk from Ginza Station; Ginza Kagari Honten is famous for its “tori paitan” 鶏白湯, a creamy broth that is made out of simmering the chicken bones and carcasses for long hours, appears in thick and whitish colour. This ramen house is also one that you have to queue for some time before you get to slurp them up. It was about 7pm when we arrived at this place. To my surprise, there were only about 8 of them before us on the queue. Feeling lucky as we only had to queue for less than 20minutes!
Ginza Kagari Honten offers Chicken White Broth Soba, Chicken White Broth Soy Sauce Soba, with truffle, tsukemen, chicken soba (which is made of only chicken and water), and Gohan (rice).You may find that the word “Soba” on the wall and menu, that’s because they use “chukka soba” which means Chinese noodles over here.
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