YurTuz, a 14-seat Uyghur table in Monzen-Nakacho

Field notes

The restaurant occupies the first floor of a three-room inn and seats 14 people in a non-smoking room described as quiet and café-like. Its menu covers Uyghur samsa, polo, hand-pulled laghman, manta, dumplings, and cold noodles; the site says both noodle dough and samsa dough are made in-house. A world map in the room carries pins marking where guests staying upstairs have come from.