Saikai

Saikai is a neighborhood Chinese restaurant in Kyoto's Fushimi Ward that serves Japanese-style Chinese dishes, fried rice, and dumplings. Its main dish, sara udon, tops crisp noodles with a vegetable and seafood sauce, and four cooks in the kitchen prepare it to order. Meals are available after 11 p.m., and the sara udon typically arrives two to three minutes after ordering, with dumplings following a minute or two later. The room was nearly full at 1:10 p.m. and stays fairly loud late at night.