Area: about a 10 min. walk north of Kokusai Center Station 国際センター駅
Restaurant: Bar Dufi バル ドゥフィ
Website and Map: http://cafedufi.com/#bardufi
Hours: Lunch 11:30am-2pm, Dinner 6-11pm (10pm on Sundays and Holidays), Closed Tuesdays
This is supposed to be a Spanish restaurant, but the buffet lunch didn't really reflect this. I tried a bit of everything available on the table; the kara-age (fried chicken) tasted like KFC, with western seasoning. The ma po tofu was spicy, with hints of ginger, and was a bit too salty. The stir fried pork was even saltier. I think it was meant to be shoga yaki (ginger stir-fry), but it was just salty. The mini hamburger was kind of a mushy texture, strong on the onions, but nice in seasoning of tomato. The lentils, soft but still with a nice bite, were Indian in flavor with lots if cumin. The egg salad chicken banbanji (steamed and shredded) had a good balance of mustard and mayonnaise. The panko crusted and fried aji (a type of fish) was moist The chicken ball was moist but nothing special and needed some sort of sauce. The crab cream croquette was nice as is without tartare sauce, with a thick pasty filling. Curry was mild with tomatoes or tomato sauce mixed in. Daikon and cucumber salad was a Japanese flavor with sesame oil. The chicken was a teriyaki stir fry gone cold with jelly that forms when fat cools down. Soup was a light fare with tomatoes and some ground meat for flavor. Fried rice was mediocre with the flavor of sausage prominent.
I went over everything pretty quickly, but I was just overall disappointed that I didn't see any Spain in this lunch.
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