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![[Shanghai] Tori-ichi 酉一](https://www.sugarednspiced.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/L1146939.jpg)
Tori-ichi 酉一
Add: 509 Guyang Road, near Yaohong Road / 古羊路509号，近姚虹路
Tel: 5477 3661
Hours: 5:30-12pm (closed on Sunday)
Price: 120-150 RMB/person
Visited: Jan 2016
Tori-ichi 酉一 is a popular izakaya in Gubei area with quality food, reasonable price, and efficient service. A good choice for a rowdy gathering among friends if you happen to be in the area.
Sake sake.
Chicken liver braised in ginger (25 RMB).
Grilled knee gristle (10 RMB/skewer) and chicken tail (12 RMB/skewer).
![[Shanghai] Kota’s Kitchen](https://www.sugarednspiced.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/R0032940.jpg)
Kota’s Kitchen
Add: 2905 Xietu Lu, near Lingling Lu 斜土路2905号， 近零陵路
Tel: 6481 2005
Hours: 6pm-1am
Website: www.kotaskitchen.com
Price: 150~200 RMB/person
Visited: Dec 2011
There’s a warm buzz at Kota’s Kitchen that makes you feel you’ve come to the right place. This intimate, perpetually packed Japanese yakitori shochu bar has all the right elements – skewered items grilled to perfection over Japanese charcoal, supremely gratifying fried chicken, fried potatoes, fried anything, and Beatles posters all over its walls and classic tunes of “Love Me Do” and “Yellow Submarine” in the background. My favorite yakitori place in town, hands down.
A meal at Kota’s always starts with a plate of freshly sliced carrots, cucumbers, and daikons with accompanying mayonnaise and a mildly spicy sauce. This is probably going to be the healthiest plate you’ll see all evening.
