Year of Eating Differently (125): Canteen, Prince's Building

A first day on tour for the project. Admittedly, this probably breaks the 1-hour radius of Soho Square rule, but it's well within range of my new office. Yesterday I had the teleconference from hell (over 5 hours) so didn't get lunch at all; thus today was my first chance to get something to eat. Off to Prince's Building and navigating round a huge dining area - a little too much choice to be presented with so soon.
Soba - not so bad. Bit much and a bit messy for a first lunchtime in HK, trying to make a good impression on one's co-workers.

Year of Eating Differently (92): Satsuma, Wardour Street

Ten years ago, this seemed a contender to Wagamama; noodles, a series of wooden benches where you sat facing your dinnertime companion, a similar minimally-laid out menu. These days, less so. While Wagamama has grown into a behemoth, there are few Satsumas around. On the positive side, this allows them to retain a staff of other-worldly beings; in this case a couple of random Scandinavian servers (Caira and Anders) and some Japanese people.
Furthermore, you get more on the menu. It costs more too, but it's good to get a bento in London. I was pretty much stuffed after I'd eaten all of this:

On the downside, you don't get any citrus fruit after you've finished your meal. But to be fair, the place is more likely to be named after the province in Kagoshima. But that's just a guess. Maybe there's a huge pile of fruit out back somewhere.

Year of Eating Differently (27): Sa Thai, Greek Street

Another noodle bar. Went in and asked for a green curry to take away. Got given a foil tray and sent to fend for myself in the lunchtime buffet. No curry. Quite depressed. But by then I'd handed over the cash, and my earlier protestation that I wanted a curry seemed to have fallen on deaf ears, so I've filled up on noodles and came back to eat it. More curry later in the week, I think.
Noodles are revolting - far too much soy sauce. Tofu's not bad though, probably because it has too much soy sauce. Would be a draw, therefore, except the vegetables taste foul and have the texture of runner beans. So let's call that 2-1 down.

Year of Eating Differently (23): Wasabi, Oxford Street

Yakisoba. Ah, tofu yakisoba. It's cheap, it's quick, it seems to be staffed entirely by Japanese women who wear huge amounts of blusher. Good for a cold day. It must be said, there's not that much taste to a portion of noodles with tofu, but that's too bad - if you wanted flavour, you could either bash on a load of wasabi, or order something with meat in it.