Layover food

A couple from my trip to Tokyo.

Curry Pork Cutlet with Poached Egg - Joto Curry Shibuya
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Started chatting with an American couple and a Japanese guy at a Yakitori spot in Ueno. Turns out the Japanese guy is a big airplane spotter and offers to take us around to more local oriented food stalls. First up was this sushi place. First pic is shark heart; second whale sashimi.
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Higuma donuts for the absolute lightest and most delicate donuts I’ve ever had.
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Gyukatsu Motomura. This is a chain so locations all around the city. Great beef katsu.

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Sesame Chicken, Orange Chicken, Boiled Dumplings and Hot & Sour Soup from China Restaurant in Tempe, Arizona (PHX layover)

Their Sesame Chicken is different from any other I've seen, but very good. They use a peanut butter based sauce.
 
You guys are making my mouth water with these pics.

Picture last night. Domestic AF layover. A newish Marriott brand hotel. We walk around and discover that everything good nearby is closed, or in full-on central valley nightclub party mode, and resort to the hotel bar/restaurant which still happens to be open. I order the butter/parmesan rigatoni with an add of roast chicken breast. The most dull thing you could possibly imagine. I almost didn't order anything at all. And holy hell was that bowl of pasta good. I'd actually put the roast chicken 1) into the properly roasted chicken category (a very rare statement for me), and 2) would put it up against the last most fantastic meal I had on a Manhattan layover at a French bistro with my wife's aunt/uncle who live there in their hood. It lacked the amazingly piquant lemon dipping sauce, but it was perfectly done, a medium I'd say, sliced thin so I could integrate it into each bite of my rigatonis, and man, it was just not what I was expecting at an empty hotel bar at 9 pm. The Gambas app also looked and smelled amazing, which our FA's got. Who knew?
 
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