Where do you live? Mapo tofu is relatively common, so you could likely get it in your own country if it has a sizable Chinese population. I wouldn’t even call it a specialty of Japan, and I’ve personally had better ones in other countries.

東京グルメで世界一周 Foreign cuisine from around the world divided by region and country. More common cuisines like American and Italian are also divided by specialty.

Yes, it means the same as crowdsourced in this case.

Somewhere casual as I’ll be alone. I’ll probably just be eating and going unless they also have decent drinks. I know plenty of places in Ameyokocho will be open, but there really isn’t anything there that I couldn’t get in Aichi, so I’m more interested in non-Japanese. As I stumbled upon the South Indian restaurant last year, I suspect there might be some other foreign-staffed restaurants that don’t close as their families aren’t in Japan, so I thought I’d ask on the off chance that anyone knows about any others.

Andra looks nice. I’ll probably check it out when I’m in Ueno.

Also, does anyone know any good sites for finding restaurants that aren’t user generated? I find Gurunavi and Tabelog overwhelming, and also lacking in detail for individual restaurants. Is there anywhere with more detailed and curated content. I like bento.com despite it’s design language being stuck in the early 2000s. Is there anything like that but in Japanese and more extensive?

It’s still what I’d consider late summer here in Aichi, but it’s getting there. It’s 25 right now, which is still enough for me to break into a sweat, but far from unbearable.

MUFJ also has decent online banking and is one of the few banks that offer debit cards.