Address - Tokyo-to, Nakano-ku, Nakano 5-50-9 Opening hours - Open every day from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm and from 5:00 pm to 5:00 am Map - Yes Telephone - 3387-6166 Menu - In Japanese with pictures CC - OK

Yukoen is very new, maybe one month old *, but, since it is literally meters away from where I live, I have already been there twice, once with a friend and once with several friends, one of which commented that "Vietnamese food isn't as greasy as the Chinese and, on the other hand, it isn't as relentlessy hot as the Thai". There is some truth in that. In any case, besides the usual Vietnamese stuff, Yukoen also serves Cantonese food, which I guess doesn't hurt. Fairly cheap, welcoming enough, it might not be an extraordinary experience but it is worth a try, especially if you are hungry , drunk or both very late at night or very early in the morning (say 4 am).

* Written in 1997. All other information still valid.