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Typhoon Lounge

New York, New York, United States

Typhoon Lounge is a Japanese restaurant located on St. Marks Pl (8th Street) near the corner of 1st Ave. In addition to Rice, Noodles, and Sushi options, Typhoon Lounge also offer a selection of Asian Tapas. In our group, we each chose a couple items from the Asian Tapas section to share.

The entrance to the restaurant is down a few steps from street level, so it's slightly underground. The restaurant was pretty dark on the inside, and it wasn't really decorated very nicely. Our waitress also forgot to bring us one of our items, which was a bit annoying. Nevertheless, I was pleased with the food that we ordered here. Everything we ordered was quite tasty.

The restaurant has a $9 minimum per person charge.

Dress

Dress is very casual.

Cost

Most of the small items we ordered were around $5-$7 each. Everything was small, so two of these items were necessary per person.

Items Ordered

Sesame Chicken

Stir fried chicken & snow pea with mustard teriyaki sauce

The sesame chicken was pretty good, but wasn't really all that exciting. It was just a few pieces of stir fried chicken. The sauce was a sweet teriyaki sauce.

Gyu Suji

Japanese country style beef stew

The beef stew was a nice surprise. We weren't really sure what form it would take. It came out in a small bowl, and was a few pieces of beef in a gravy sauce. The gravy wasn't very thick, so we made use of the rice we ordered to soak it up.

Nasudengaku

Grilled egg plant with sweet miso topped

This piece of eggplant had been cooking for awhile, since it was quite soft and tender all the way through. The eggplant looked like half a piece of eggplant - it hadn't been cut otherwise. The top of the eggplant was covered in a sweet miso sauce that was quite thick. I found the sauce too sweet (and salty), and didn't really enjoy it.

Tonkatsu

Pork cutlet with shiitake, mozzarella cheese & sweet miso sauce

This was another neat item. Cheese isn't a very Japanese ingredient, but nevertheless, there was cheese in this breaded pork cutlet. It was pretty good, but not one of my favorite items here.

Gyoza

Home made pan fried pork & vegs dumplings

The pork dumplings were fairly typical dumplings. They were filled with pork and a variety of other small items.

Gomaae

Marinated spinach with rich sesame sauce

This marinated spinach had a strong peanut flavor. It definitely felt like more of a Thai dish than a Japanese dish. I quite enjoyed it, but I noticed that I was the only person at the table who was eating it.