Restaurant-Chopstix

For years, decades in fact, Sharlynn and I would rely on Noodle House of Otomayan. the small place on Convoy that would reliably serve up Japanese noodle soups, and from about 1982- 2003 we would go there and order two Nabeyaki Udons and an order of gyoza, and be so happy and full and pay less than $20.

And when it closed, there was a void....not only from nostalgia (I remember driving back from a trip the two of us took to SF in about 1984 and stopping there for dinner), but a void of good noodle soup.

We may have found the closest replacement yet for that establishment, which closed when the family choose to retire. And it right across the street from where our former place used to be. It is Chopstix at 4633 Convoy, a small, no frills place, that makes really good Nabeyaki Udon and gyoza, so reminiscent of our old haunt. And best of all, two bowls of the noodle soup and an order of gyoza came to under $20!!!!

Chopstix has nice menu of Japanese food and soups. It is not expensive, but hardy, as Japanese country cooking is and it was nice that they served the tempura shrimp on the side, so you could put it in the broth when you wanted to, and it would not get prematurely soggy.

While not at all fancy, Chopstix was deeply satisfying...and I do not think it was just nostalgia!