Why you should experience Asian Dining Yummy in Tokyo, Japan.
Asian Dining Yummy is an exuberant Indian restaurant where Shinjuku's dense dining culture, a kitchen spanning South Asian staples, an unusually ambitious naan program and lively Japanese flavor combinations turn familiar curry-and-bread pairings in unexpected directions.
Set along a narrow street near Koshu Kaido and just steps from Shinjuku Station, the second-floor restaurant builds much of its character around a naan selection extending through cheese, garlic, sesame, methi and tandoori roti before moving into combinations such as avocado cheese and mentaiko cheese. Curries reach from dal makhani and chana masala through paneer makhani, saag preparations and mutton dishes, placing the elaborate breads against a substantial Indian foundation. Nepalese momo and several grilled preparations widen the table beyond curry, giving the kitchen distinct routes through steaming, tandoor heat and sauce-driven cooking. The result is a Shinjuku restaurant where a broad South Asian repertoire supports a highly individual approach to naan.
What you should know about Asian Dining Yummy.
Asian Dining Yummy is best known for turning naan into the most individual part of its cooking, developing a selection that has grown to fifteen variations and crosses established Indian preparations with combinations shaped specifically for its Shinjuku audience. Cheese naan supplies the foundation for several departures, with garlic cheese and honey cheese extending familiar combinations before avocado cheese, mentaiko cheese and other variations push the bread into territory strongly associated with the restaurant. The kitchen gives those breads a substantial curry counterpart through dal makhani, chana masala, paneer makhani, chicken dopiaza, chicken kali mirch, keema, saag with chicken, shrimp, mutton or paneer and the house Chicken Yummy Masala. Nepalese momo establishes another South Asian strand through steamed dumplings served with chile-tomato sauce, joined in larger meals by chicken malai kebab and grilled chicken with mint sauce. Seasonal experimentation has extended into pumpkin cheese naan, and matcha cheese naan has also entered the restaurant's repertoire, showing that the bread program continues to change beyond the permanent selection. Asian Dining Yummy has built its strongest culinary signature through that progression: Indian curry provides the foundation, Nepalese cooking broadens the table and naan becomes the kitchen's principal territory for invention.
Avocado cheese naan makes the restaurant's approach immediately tangible, enclosing rich cheese and avocado inside bread whose blistered exterior provides a toasted counterpoint to the soft filling. Mentaiko cheese naan pushes the same construction toward salinity and chile before honey cheese naan turns melted cheese toward sweetness, letting successive breads change character. Chicken Yummy Masala supplies the house curry counterpart through a masala base, then dal makhani slows the progression with black lentils and butter before chicken kali mirch brings pepper and chile back into focus. Momo introduces a steamed texture beneath chile-tomato sauce, shifting attention away from bread before chicken malai kebab returns the meal to roasted meat. Asian Dining Yummy turns naan into the connective thread across the meal, using cheese, avocado, mentaiko, honey and seasonal additions to keep the tandoor as distinctive as the curries beside it.
How to fold Asian Dining Yummy into your trip.
Asian Dining Yummy works as the dining anchor for an afternoon tracing Shinjuku through postwar commercial architecture, experimental art and a major collection devoted to Japanese visual culture.
Begin at Shinjuku Suehirotei, the surviving yose theater whose present building dates to 1946 and continues a performance lineage at the site reaching back to the Meiji period. Rakugo remains central to a program that also encompasses manzai, magic and other yose arts, preserving a compact theatrical tradition amid Shinjuku's immense commercial growth. Continue to Sompo Museum of Art, whose collection is inseparable from Seiji Togo and Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance, the company that established the museum in 1976 with Togo's work at its center. Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers entered the collection after the company purchased it at Christie's in London in 1987 for £24.75 million, creating one of Tokyo's best-known corporate art acquisitions. Conclude at Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, where Kenzo Tange returned to the civic architecture of Tokyo decades after designing the former metropolitan headquarters in Marunouchi. The 1991 Shinjuku complex gave the expanding western business district a pair of immense towers whose grand geometry drew upon Gothic cathedral forms and Tange's long engagement with large public commissions. The progression moves from Shinjuku Suehirotei's postwar preservation of yose performance through Seiji Togo and Van Gogh into Kenzo Tange's metropolitan architecture, revealing the theatrical, artistic and architectural institutions surrounding Asian Dining Yummy.
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