Mango Tree Cafe, Lazona, Kawasaki

My first actual meal of the new year was lunch at Mango Tree Cafe in Lazona Mall, attached to Kawasaki station. I think it's telling that I actually forgot about this meal when putting together my list of new restaurants. It wasn't bad, just not memorable.

Mango Tree is a chain of Thai restaurants that can be found around Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka and Fukuoka (I had no idea there's two near me). Apparently there are bistros, cafes, restaurants, but I'm not sure of the difference between them. The one I ate at was a cafe, and was fairly casual, brightly lit and, importantly for New Year's Day, no line.

The menu has decent, but relatively pedestrian Thai food. I had a soup with pork, cilantro and bean sprouts and some kind of fried cake (most likely shrimp). It was enough to keep me going before the Hokkaido feast I described previously, but nothing to write home about.


Address: 4F LAZONA KAWASAKI PLAZA , 72-1 Horikawa cho, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa
Website:  https://mangotree.jp/