Tasty Yakiniku At Nakano Made Even Tastier With Eggs

While strolling in the food alley of Nakano, just around the otaku heaven Nakano Broadway, we found a stylishly designed restaurant serving yakiniku. We were looking for food that's why we were there, and supposedly we would be having dinner at Gyu-kaku, a famous yakiniku chain that we went to during New Year but they were full by the time we inquired so here we were, looking for other options.

The busy alley of Nakano at night

Yakiniku sign

This food alley in Nakano has a lot of restaurant options with different cuisines, and prices vary per restaurant. My mind was already set on having yakiniku or yakitori for dinner so we were just looking for those.

Yakiniku restaurant that got me curious

This bicycle is so 邪魔 😄

So as I've mentioned, we found a stylish restaurant at the far end of the alley if you're coming from Nakano Station. The restaurant is called Nikusho Ueno Yakiniku, and by far, this is the best yakiniku restaurant my boyfriend has ever tried in Tokyo. 😁

Even their door looks stylish

I guess everything in black is stylish to me. 😂

Their kitchen

You might be wondering why not me. 😆 I actually still haven't decided if this is the best yakiniku for me because while it's so tasty, it's also kinda expensive.

Kalbi or beef short ribs

We came here for yakiniku so we ordered lots of meat. Fortunately, my boyfriend didn't order ホルモン (or the internals), whew. We ordered ハラミ (read as harami or Skirt Steak), カルビ (read as kalbi or beef short ribs), 塩タン (read as shio tan or beef tongue), and ランプ (read as ranpu or beef rump steak). Okay, that was overkill but believe me, it was just so tasty and we were kinda hungry.

Salted beef tongue

My boyfriend's favorite was the harami or the skirt steak. I couldn't stop him from ordering another plate of it. It was so tasty. It kinda melts in your mouth. The soy sauce they gave complemented the meat.

Boyfriend's favorite is harami or skirt steak

My favorite was the ranpu or the beef rump steak. I have no idea where to find it in a cow, I guess it's near the tail..? In the menu actually the beef parts were there but I forgot to take a photo of it so I would remember. Anyways, it was the best beef I've ever tried in Japan. It was so thin and it got cooked so fast. It arrived first so my tummy was so happy the first food I took was so delicious I just couldn't get enough of it.

Ranpu or beef rump steak

Sadly, ranpu was so expensive because apparently, it's a wagyu! Wagyu is expensive Japanese beef but very very delicious and worth every penny. I wanted a second round of it but my wallet says no. By the way, I paid for our meal because it's my turn to treat my boyfriend.

Cooking ranpu

Aside from the white rice, we ordered their bibimbap. We thought there would be meat as toppings but no meat came. Maybe we ordered a different bibimbap or we got served the wrong one. No complaints about this one, but the ones in Korean Town were better. Also, their 1 bowl is good for one person but we shared this.

Bibimbap

Okay, now that I'm making this post I realized there was meat actually but it's in small strips and we barely couldn't taste it. 😁

A great discovery we found while there was the raw egg. They have this ad on every table that the eggs are like treasured eggs and good for serving with yakiniku. 1 egg is 100 yen, and if you compare it with the ones in the supermarket, it's really expensive but well, this is a special egg as they say.

Egg advertisment

We got curious as to how good it was so my boyfriend ordered 1 each for us.

Yakiniku dipped in soy sauce and coated with raw egg

And the result? The yakiniku was on a new higher level! The raw egg gave another great flavor to the meat. Because we still have more meat, we ordered another 2 bowls of raw eggs. When there was no more meat and seeing I still have the eggs, I drank its soup. 😄 This egg was surely of great quality! Just look at that yolk!

Just look at that rich colored yolk!

I remembered reading a tweet about eating raw eggs but in Japan, it's okay to eat them. They have expiry dates though so when it's passed the expiry date specified on the packaging, we don't eat them raw. I think the same is for this restaurant. They surely won't be serving raw eggs that are bad for our health. 😌

We were so full. Well of course, after all those meats and drinks we just consumed for dinner, we can barely walk. LOL But we had no choice but to walk.

Messy dining tableMy ginger ale whisky

This restaurant sure was one of the best yakiniku restaurants we've been to but also pricey depending on what you order. While we were there, there were couples too so I think this place is great for couples or people meeting for the first time. (That's what one couple look like to me.)

Table for 2

It may be a small restaurant but many famous people have been here because I saw some autographs posted on the wall. The staff were accommodating and this restaurant didn't give any bad impression to me. I wonder if we would be able to go back.. that would be awesome I guess but we should also prepare lots of bills in our wallets if we want to order more. 😄

The restaurant

And about the raw eggs, the next time we'll be having yakiniku at home, I'll make sure to get quality eggs too so we could do the same at home, low cost. 😂


Thanks for reading!
See you around! じゃあ、またね!


All photos are taken using my phone unless stated otherwise.



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Deymn, makagutom! I'll do a food trip everyday in Tokyo.

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You'll get fatter and fatter with that. I gained a lot of pounds while being here 😂

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Mas lamian ko magtan aw sa Harami.
Laminsad ang presyo... Hehe

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Best harami kay ka duha gd na order 😂

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Ilhan man nawng palang daan lami na. Hehe

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I only tried Yakiniku here in the Philippines and I enjoyed it, so I wonder how the original taste like 😆😅 Looking at those pics, they look much more fresh and tasty 😋❤️

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I've tried yakiniku in the Philippines too, probably the difference is the quality of the meat being used.
Here it's more tasty indeed!

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The first picture is having anime vibes 😍 Gad, look at the marbling of the meat~ I am imagining juicy, fatty, melting meat in the mouth~~ Nice for couples to hang out, hmm I will take note of this for my future boyfie 🤣

!PIZZA

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The marbling was perfect! 🤌
and melts in your mouth 😋
If I could order and eat a lot, I would!

Yes, for future boyfie.. kung kelan yan, sige abangan nalang namin 😌

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Aaaagh, it's been so long since I had yakiniku. Witty naman, nakakagutom 'to. Can you describe how different eggs are there in JP vs dito sa PH? Sometimes I put raw eggs on whatever's warm... 'di pa naman ako patay. HAHAHA

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Hahahaha! Sorry Arc, I’m also hungry now LOL pls send foods
The eggs? Hmmm, so far the eggs I’ve eaten in PH aren’t the same eggs I’ve eaten here. I mean not all eggs are same. The ones I’ve had in PH aren’t on the same level as this one in terms of rich quality and yummy egg yolk.
Apir sa raw eggs! Be careful of them Arc, make sure you’re eating good raw eggs, not the expired ones.

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おいしそう〜!いいなー。
I miss this type of restaurants. I miss small alleys like this. Yakiniku looks so good. Bibimbap as well.

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でしょう!
It's fun to be lost in small alleys like this. In Nakano, it's a long stretch but during night, you need to be careful when you're on your own because there are some people who might approach you. 😄 Haven't seen it happen but I saw some men in the alleys, probably escorting you to their clubs.

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The bibimbab looks sooo good! It's weird of me scrolling through this post when I'm not supposed to eat anything until 4 hrs from now no breakfast here! 😭

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Fasting? 😊
They're not the best bibimbap out there but they're still good.

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Oh wow all those look so good 🤤.
That’s the sexiest egg yolk I’ve ever seen. 😋

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HAHAHA! What a nice way to describe that egg yolk. 😂

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Parang gusto ko rin tuloy mag yakiniku! When I saw the raw egg, guditama na naman naisip ko 🤣
Nagutom ako sa pagbabasa, witty huhuhu

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Ayyy true! This is gudetama, C! 🤣
Hope you can eat C, mag yakiniku din tayo~ why not LOL

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Yammi ...Food looks delicious. You got also a quality camera 📸 🔥🔥

The only Japanese name I can utter is Nishida!!
Do you know him?

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The food was really so good!
I was just using my phone's camera 😄

Who is that? 😆 An athlete?
Nishida is kinda common in Japan, actually almost all family names in Japan are common 🤣

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Yuji Nishida world's best volleyball player , a 19 year boy, takes notice of the world from Japan.

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