You will find Montee, the excellent little Thai restaurant introduced in my Japan Times column today, in the little-known, hard-to-find underground arcade known as Asakusa Chikagai. It's a low-res, grainy, hand-held sort of place — just like this video I shot coming out of the subway station. You'll spot Montee on the left (at about 1'20"): check out the delivery bike.
Asakusa chikagai from tokyo food file on Vimeo.
In case you missed the bike and its sign, here it is again...
...and in close-up.
And, if you want another reason for exploring this gritty slice of retro Tokyo life, Asakusa Chikagai is also the site of a super little Vietnamese retaurant, Bistro Authentique, which I dropped into a JT column this time last year.
