Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
Most of the sushi places I know here are run by Koreans. And this ramen place at the shopping center tastes like 2-minute noodles.
In Paris, most of them are Chinese. Quality is really low to very bad. However I know one case of "Almost the same" at a reasonable price, near my work place.
Then there are some very high quality places I have tried, but prices are really out of the everyday category.
Thing is, one of the two, the most expensive one, has had a great fall in quality.
Then there's that japanese restaurant, opened in the late 50's that I like. It's just that they are not opened saturday and sunday at noon and it's a shame since I can't really go to restaurants in the evening.

That udon affordable place, is run by japanese and many workers there seem to be students.
And these are not instant noodles, kitchen is right in front of you when you come early enough to have one of the 10 seats of the upper floor.
Amazing all they do in that very small place with like 5 people, each assigned some particular tasks (udon, frying, etc...)

All in all, in the last 10 years, I have evolved to discovering, to liking japanese food. Then I tried to understand and now found some nice local places. I wish I could find more of those nice places, it's just that I'm now too picky and fear bad experiences. Had one yesterday...
frost tuna (ice cristals inside...) no taste, poor quantity etc... I wish I had the choice to go to a good chinese restaurant instead (I know some)