Bangkok Nightlives: Utaandon 歌行燈: my choice on crowded Saturday night

I spent last Saturday shopping with my friend at Central World. After a long walk and all the chit-chat, it was 8 p.m. already and we’re tired and starving! Every Saturday, especially at night, is like a war. Everywhere is packed and crowded. Because of that, we didn’t want to go eating somewhere else. Eating at department store is the best solution for people who don’t want to with for a long queue and have plenty of restaurant to pick on in Saturday night. So, two girls (who at that time ready to finish a whole cow!) decided to eat at our favorite restaurant in Isetan, Utaandon.

Utaandon is a small lovely traditional Japanese restaurant. It has two branches: one at Central world and another at Emporium. This restaurant is famous for their udon noodles and soba noodles.

Udon noodle (うどん) is a Japanese thick wheat-flour noodle, usually serves as a hot noodle soup. Soba noodle (そば) is a Japanese buckwheat noodle. Noodle shape is long and thin, made from buckwheat flour. It usually serves as chilled noodle, dipped with sauce or in a hot soup.

The udon noodles and soba noodles are made daily to keep the taste fresh and delicious in everyday. Their soup is also remarkable. It is called as dashi (だし) in Japanese. It made from dries fish boiled with kombu.

I ordered my favorite menu “Katsuni Udon”, crispy pork dipped with egg and boiled in hot dashi noodle soup. The udon noodles were soft and fresh, crispy pork and mouth-watering soup was a good combination. It was quite cold that day so ate hot tasty noodles was such a heaven :’) My friend decided to try this month promotion menu “Nabeyaki Udon” set, hot udon noodles boiled with meat and vegetables and served in a medal pot. Also served with Japanese salad and rice topped with cooked baby sardine. I tried it for a bit. The taste of the soup was sweeter than mine. I think it because of the vegetables and the meat. The noodles were exactly like mine, soft and delicious. This menu would be perfect for people who love healthy food and love to eat in a big amount. The noodles, rice and salad would make you felt so stuffed till the next morning.

Katsuni Udon

Nabeyaki Udon

Apart from two dished I just talked about. I have a few recommended menus. Gyudon (牛丼) is a rice dish topped with beef and onion cooked with sweet sauce and lastly topped with a raw egg. This is a very popular menu and is also my most favorite menu. Sweet and soft beef with steamed rice is irresistible. Also, if you don’t want to eat late, Utaandon has a lunch set which is very worth the price. My recommended set would be “Tonkatsu Set”, crispy pork served with steamed rice plus a small bowl of hot udon noodles soup as a side dish and “Gyudon Set”, sweet beef with steamed rice and a small bowl of hot udon noodles soup. I think these two set are the most popular and I highly recommended you guys to try it. Let’s go eat out together and share comment. Anyone who has already been to the restaurant, please, feel free to comment :’))

Tonkatsu Set