February 19, 2006
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Saturday, J & I went to Naniwa, a Japanese grocery store in Mclean, VA. The selection was okay, given the limited number of Japanese stores in the area. I heard a lot of good things about Tachibana, a sushi restaurant nearby. It turns out that it really lives up to its name. Of course, I'm not Japanese, so I don't feel like I can truly judge what's good and what's not, but judging by how quickly the place filled up, I think it was pretty good. The fish was really fresh, some of the best I've had in a long time. It was even better than Sushi-ko, which is supposed to be the best in the metro-D.C. area, since the chef is a Japan native and is very well known.
Both Naniwa and Tachibana are hidden away on side streets in Mclean, and are very hard to spot from the main roads. It's well worth the effort and time to find them though.
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since you have been visiting restaurants lately, i don't know if you travel up to the rockville, MD area, on twinbrook parkway a little past rockville pike there is this new korean place, called little house of tofu and bbq, if i remember correctly. for bbq they just have beef ribs, but most of the stuff is tofu soups and such. i went there this past weekend and it was pretty good. their menu is a bit on the small side, 13 items, but the small selection is not a big deal when their food is good. it used to be where the 'house of chinese chicken' used to be (if you try to google map it), if you know the area.
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