Look at the size of the gyoza! Each one was as large as my fist. They were delicious! Unfortunately one plate was one flavor. We couldn't mix and match. So this was a place where one went drinking with a bunch of people and ordered many plates with many different flavors and shared.
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| 餃子天国: mushroom gyoza |
餃子天国 was trying very hard to run itself into the ground. Because of Tokyo's state of emergency, the restaurant could only be opened until 8pm and couldn't serve alcohol. So this restaurant decided to open from 5:30pm to 8pm. We arrived at 6pm. When we left after 7pm, we were the only table there.
One could order take out; the whole time we were there, only two people came to pick up their takeout orders.
When we were done ordering, the waitress asked us to read a paragraph on the menu. Basically it said we shouldn't waste food and we couldn't take any leftover to go. Wha....????
If one could order takeout, that meant the restaurant had to-go boxes. Why couldn't we use those boxes to take our leftover to go?
It had been a Japanese culture not to waste food. It was frowned upon to have leftover and to take leftover to go. I guess the Japanese restaurants were not used to stock up on to-go boxes. I thought, for the pandemic, they would change their way. Apparently not this restaurant.
I'm used to order a lot of dishes from my favorite restaurants, eat a bit, and take them to go and eat the leftovers for the next several meals.
So this restaurant could only open for 2.5 hours, couldn't serve alcohol, and wouldn't let customers take leftovers to go. No wonder we were the only table and there were only two take-out orders. I hope it could survive the pandemic.