Yozenya

Rating: OK
Meal:  Dinner
Price: 2700 yen
Payment: Credit cards accepted
Dishes: Steak
English Menu: Yes
Smoking: No

Second place I ate at at Narita Airport.  Much better steak but also much more expensive.  Averages out to ok.

Yanma

Rating: OK
Meal:  Dinner
Price: 1500 yen
Payment: Credit cards accepted
Dishes: Steak
English Menu: Yes
Smoking: No

Picked relatives at the airport last night and had some time before to try a couple of places out.  The first is this steak spot...I got the largest amount of meat possible, a 200g steak.  It was just ok.

Tatsu

Rating: OK
Meal:  Breakfast
Price:  2800 yen
Payment: Credit cards accepted
Dishes:  Steak
English Menu: Yes
Smoking: No

I'm traveling to Da Nang, Vietnam to visit my brother.  This morning I was at Narita Airport Terminal 1 and had some time before leaving on the plane.  Not wanting to be tempted by the horrible food on the plane, I looked around for some meat to eat (carnivore diet atm) and found a steak teishoku at Tatsu, which also advertises craft beer which I sadly did not partake of.

Steak

I opted for no rice, so I got a few slices of meat, which was what I wanted.  Just ok of course, not amazing stuff, but it worked.

La Toque

Rating: OK
Meal:  Lunch for 2
Price:  2300 yen
Payment:  Credit cards accepted
Dishes:Chicken combo plate, ala carte chicken piece and omelet
English Menu: Yes
Smoking: No

My wife and I had to drive to Narita Airport Terminal 2 on Saturday to pickup my son coming back from school in the Philippines.  We arrived in time to grab some dinner and so settled on La Toque, which proudly displays that they are a Halal kitchen, a rare find in Japan.  However they serve chicken based curry and other dishes, nothing Middle Eastern.  But the methods and ingredients they use are certified Halal.

Chicken plate combo

My wife ordered the chicken combo plate which came with a salad and rice.  I just ordered some chicken and an omelet ala carte to avoid the carbs.  These are usually meant to be add-ons for the curry dishes, but they allowed me to order them independently.

Just Chicken

It was actually pretty good, if nothing special.  It worked find for a quick, fairly cheap, low carb dinner.

Fuwafuwa omelet

First Class Rice

Rating: Very good
Meal: Lunch for 3
Price:  5240 yen
Payment: Credit cards accepted
Dishes:  3 teishokus plus an egg and salmon roe
English Menu: Yes
Smoking: No

Well we are off on a trip back to the US and had to fly out of Narita, sadly.  We tracked down this "first class rice" restaurant consisting of Kyoto style teishokus.  All of our dishes were delicious and we'd eat there again in a heartbeat

RB

Rating: OK
Meal: Lunch
Price: 1500 yen
Payment: Credit cards accepted
Dishes: Half roast beef sandwich, half chicken and avocado sandwich, highball
English Menu: Yes
Smoking: No

Had to hang out at Narita Airport terminal 2 today for many hours.  I was feeling like something different (for Japan) so I went for RB, a sandwich (and rice bowl?) shop.  Eh...it was just ok.  The Perrier highball was good though.

Boteju

Rating: Not great
Meal: Lunch for 2
Price: 3132 yen
Payment: Credit cards accepted
Dishes: 2 yakisoba-ish dishes, takoyaki, karaage
English Menu:Yes
Smoking: No

Rather bad spot in Narita Terminal 3. Wish we hadn't wasted a meal on it.

Tang Dynasty

Rating: Very good
Meal:  Lunch
Price:  4600 yen for 3 people
Payment:  Credit Cards Accepted
Dishes: Mabodofu, Scrambled eggs with tomato and scallop, shrimp fried rice, cumin lamb sticks, pork buns, sesame balls
English Menu:Yes
Smoking:No

I took my wife and son to the Narita airport yesterday, a drive of about an hour and 45 minutes from Yokosuka.  We hate flying in or out of Narita because of how far it is.  It's sad especially coming home because after a 10 hour flight you arrive "home" and then have to get all the way to Yokosuka.  Guess I'm grateful we don't live somewhere else in Japan as we'd have to go even further in that case, though maybe we'd just take a connecting flight.  In any case, we much prefer Haneda for our airport as that is only about 45 minutes away and is a much nicer airport.

Scrambled Eggs with tomato and hotate

However...one good thing about Narita is that it has our absolute favorite Chinese restaurant in Japan:  Tang Dynasty.  Thus the rather extravagant meal we ate.  But we get there so rarely you have to make it count.  Tang Dynasty is in International Terminal 1, so be sure to check if you are flying out of the correct terminal before getting too excited.  Terminal 1 is a V shape, and the restaurants are located in the center of the V on the 4th and 5th floors (same as the departure floor).  There isn't anything spectacular as far as restaurants go, except for Tang Dynasty.  We happened upon it once on accident as we were leaving or picking someone up or something, choosing Chinese mainly for Rowan's sake as there is usually fried rice or something he likes.  We noticed some interesting cuisine choices and when our food arrived we kept making shocked expressions over how much flavor there was in even the unassuming dishes.  Things we would normally not be interested in because of past experience actually popped a bit when tasted.  Then there was the cumin lamb dish...wow!  I think it was a special or something, but it was cumin encrusted lamb chunks stir fried with vegetables.  I was hooked!

Mabodofu

This time they didn't have the same lamb dish, to my disappointment.  But on the menu they did have cumin encrusted lamb sticks (5) so we had to get that.  I should have just passed on a main dish and eaten some of my son and wife's food, but I caved and got the scrambled egg with tomato and hotate (scallop).  It was ok, but not fabulous.  There is an excellent gyoza sauce at the table though that I like to put on everything.  It's got the red hot oil plus a tangy soy sauce mixed together.  My wife's mabodofu (soft tofu with ground meat) was actually spicy (it rarely is elsewhere)!  My son went with the shrimp fried rice, which I didn't think was all that amazing.  Another special treat are the pork buns.  These come in a double decker bamboo steam tray, with buns on the top and below the huge slices of rice encrusted super soft pork (lots of fat!).  You have to pry open the steamed bun and then insert a slice of pork and then try to eat it without getting food everywhere.  Delicious!  Lastly, the sesame balls...these look normal on the outside, but instead of a bean curd filling, there is something resembling sweet tahini (ground sesame).  Soooooo goood!

Shrimp fried rice and lamb sticks

And we haven't even even had a chance to try the shaved noodles, another specialty of the restaurant.  Apparently this is all part of the Chinese cuisine known as Shanxi, a cuisine we had never tried until we found this restaurant.  Definitely something to keep an eye out for in the future.

Pork buns (separated)

Sesame balls