Traditional Szechuan cuisine but in Japan I think it must be a derived version :) posted by daifousAugust 20, 2004 at 3:36 [ e ]

You are probably right but even in Tokyo there two major kinds.  Japanese Tantan-men which sucks and Chinese Tantan-men which rules.  The place above serves Chinese tantan-men as far as I can tell.  Whether it's as good as tantan-men from China I don't know but it's run and made by Chinese people that don't speak Japanese very well which I take as a good sign that it's probably pretty close posted by greggmanAugust 21, 2004 at 2:02 [ e ]

thanks gregg! I was there last night for the first time and it was a great "noodle experience" (^_^) i went there with a friend and we ordered shirogoma tantanmen and tontama tantanmen, it was all uuumai! have to try the other dishes, btw, i wonder how's ramen. ciao! posted by AndreaOctober 22, 2004 at 21:59 [ e ]

I went to the one in Meguro. (It's on Meguro-dori and it's much smaller than the one in Roppongi.) I knew it was there but it is so close to my house that I never really had a chance to try it. But yesterday I went there with a friend. It was yummy! I had a Kurogoma-tantanmen and my friend had a Mongolian(?) lamb tantanmen. Actually, I liked the mongolian one better :P  Roppongi yori oishii kiga shita.. tabun kinosei. posted by yukiNovember 14, 2004 at 10:31 [ e ]