Kitsuneya — Restaurant in Tokyo

Ok, I gave 5 out of 5, but it really depends on your tolerance for red miso organ soup. If you’re lining up here for gyudon, you’re wasting your time. Don’t get me wrong, gyudon at Kitsuneya is good, but you come to Kitsuneya for that reddish-brown, chocolatey delight called horumon don. What’s horumon don, you ask? It’s a bowl of stewed cow intestine in red miso. They must have been stewing that thing since the dawn of Genesis because it’s incredibly soft. Oh, now you want to be even more adventurous and top off your horumon don with an onsen tamago (a runny, gooey egg)? After your first bite you will begin to speak fluent Japanese on the spot.

Not sure if you can tell but the line goes all the way to the end of the street then snakes around to the guy in pink shirt with an umbrella. If you want to avoid the line come here by 8 A.M. and avoid Wednesday. It's a day off for many shops at Tsukiji. While I was waiting in the line, I struck up a conversation with the lady in front of me. We chatted for a good 40 minutes, and when we were next in line, I asked if she knew what this was. She said no—she just lined up because everyone else did. I told her it was intestine soup, and she ended up getting a bowl of gyudon instead.

Look, just try it. If you don’t like it, the ramen shop next door is awesome too. But once you acquire the taste, you’ll be coming here for breakfast every time you...

A tad bit over-rated. The daily snaking queues probably raised expectations. But overall an experience not to be missed if you’re in the Tsukiji area during breakfast.

The menu is in Japanese and the stall owners are not the most helpful. Better if you actually know what you want to order and here is my recommendation:

Get the normal Beef & Rice bowl for Y800. Add on a bowl of Innards (no rice) for extra - if you are game enough. I saw a lot of people ordering their Pickled Cucumber. They seem to also sell a lot of Beancurd Skin of some sort. You can also get the optional Egg top-up.

On a cold morning, this hot bowl of beef stew warms up the tummy for sure. It’s super tasty (no doubts) and goes very well with the rice. The sauce/stew is thick and full of umami however for the cost, I expected to receive a little more ingredients (e.g. beef slices, etc.). So, if you’re someone needing a lot of ingredients versus rice, don’t forget to order an extra portion of just beef slices and/or innards (separate orders).

Not worth traveling across the city to eat but if you’re in the vicinity, why not?

Better to go about 7 am before the queue...

GET THE HORUMON DON (offal/innards bowl), NOT THE BEEF BOWL. I made the mistake of only getting the beef bowl the first time I visited and saw everyone else order the horumon don and then wistfully wished I had made the better choice because I did not enjoy the beef bowl. Their beef bowl is not like what you'd get at the usual beef bowl chains - instead, the beef is broken up into tiny bits and the texture is too much of mush for me to enjoy (unless that's your thing). The horumon don, on the other hand, IS AMAZING. It's the best way to eat innards because it's stewed in this bubbling cauldron into a thick, rich goodness that goes perfectly with hot rice, spring onions and a sprinkling of shichimi. Yum.

note: everyone has to order an item, no sharing of one bowl for multiple people. You can order one horumon/beef bowl then get just the stewed horumon (horumon ni) or the yaki tofu/tofu and meat (ie...