26 Tanaka Satonochicho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
¥¥ ・ Chinese
Bib Gourmand: good quality, good value cooking
‘Yi Pan Cai’ is Mandarin Chinese for ‘à la carte’. The name reflects the restaurant’s desire for patrons to enjoy dishes they love with a light-hearted spirit. The ‘Dragon’s-Hair Rolls’ are minced shrimp and hamo rolled up in kadaif noodles and deep-fried. Dishes such as pig’s feet marinated in Tsingtao beer and deep-fried; and shumai steamed dumplings made variously of pork, beef, fish or shellfish, are creatively prepared and served as an assortment. Each dish is delightfully inventive.