kadoya

best japanese curry in brisbane!. can't get enough of the curry dishes here, my favourite being thechickenkatsu. the taste is very comforting and not spicy (unless you ask for it hotter), and perhaps a little different to 'real' japanese curry judging by how hard it has been for me to find this taste anywhere else, even while in japan! whatever their secret is, it seems to be working out for them, and for me every time i go there!

in my humble opinion, elizabeth arcade is like a miniature chinatown situated within the cbd, you can find a large range of asian eats in there, including vietnamese, japanese, korean, and a couple of bubble tea joints.  despite the relatively large variety of choices we have, when i go to elizabeth arcade, there is no difficulty in deciding where to lunch. kadoya is always my first pick. it offers a large variety of japanese set meals and sides. i've been going to this place since early in my university days, and definitely hold a soft spot in my heart for it. orders are taken at the counter, and numbers are given. water and condiments are obtained by diy basis. as an interesting point, of all the restaurants that i have frequented, kadoya seems to have the fastest speed when it comes to food being served. i love the efficiency and it goes a long way in the tight lunch hours. on this occasion, my companion ordered achickenkatsu bento box. i've had their bento boxes on multiple occasions, and find that for $13 its a great deal, because it ensures that you will definitely be full. i also find the rice to mains/sides ratio to be very generous. i have been to other japanese restaurants where the bento box is half filled with rice, and half filled with mains/sides. at kadoya though, only one quarter is rice, and the remaining three quarters are comprised of mains and sides, which means you will definitely not get bored with your meal. the added miso soup on the side is also a nice touch. my companion and i also got a takoyaki to share. for $3.90, it was a good deal for five. i like how they aren't completely drenched in sauce, and i can taste a fair amount of octopus in the takoyaki. on this occasion though, i ordered the karaagechickenramen. compared to the hakata style ramen (creamy pork bone soup with white straight noodles, e.g. hakataya, taros, kenkotsu), kadoya offers tokyo style ramen, which i actually prefer far more (tokyo style involves a clear light broth

this tiny little japanese restaurant situated in the elizabeth arcade was frequented by us at lunch time on a weekly basis, until one day, i saw a big nasty looking cockroach crawling on the table next to us. i decided then that it was time to say goodbye to our favourite cheap eat japanese restaurant in the city. since i got pregnant, i've developed this passion for noodle soup and we often ventured out to sunnybank for a bowl of hakataya ramen, but the other day when i had a sudden craving for ramen at lunch time, knowing that sunnybank would be too far away and the hakataya ramen in the myer centre won't be open till late may, i texted the other travel bunnie and asked if he was interested in going to kadoya for a quick lunch. he said yes. achickenkatsu bento box ($13.80) for the other travel bunnie and as for me, i had thechickenkaraage with ramen ($9.80). the food came quickly and tasted a lot better than we had remembered and ramen broth was delicious. i guess we'll be going

after many years of dining here, i can safely say that the top quality of their dishes has not changed. i remember eating here religiously almost every lunch time and ordering theirchickenkatsu curry when the shop was located in elizabeth arcade. many years later, i found myself eating here again and the curry tastes exactly how i remembered. good value and decent portions. must try!

i really love the service here, the ladies are always super nice taking my order !! always smiling, i always order the grilledchickencurry and they’ve never failed to disappoint me. my favourite curry place in brisbane 😍

i did orderder spicychickendon today at 2 pm. when the food came, and my first disappointment came. thechickenis salty! and i cant bare to eat and talk to the waitress that this food is salty i cant eat! she did come back and said to me it correct. so the salty spicychickentaste correct!? and ask me what do i want? so i want to change of course but she denied me to and mention it was correct!! what the heck? if u taste it , you wold know that nobody can eat. im used to eat the spicy don i know what it taste like? so what she offered me is the question “ what do i want? “ really disppointed!! i definitely wont come back again with this kind of manner!! it is unacceptable and unprofessional!! ... obciously it should have no star at all!

one of our absolute favourite places to go, unfortunately relocated a bit further out of the cbd but still close enough. i give it a high rating because it follows what's most important to me: you can crave it, they will always satisfy you (in flavour and quantity), and it never worries us whether we can afford having it.

kadoya's best feature is that it's always worth the money, you're never left dissatisfied neither with quantity or quality of food.

they have an assortment of popular japanese style dishes, but definitely their most important dishes are the curry katsuchickenand pork; their curry sauce is always perfect and the customisable amount of heat is very helpful. your typical serving comes with plenty of rice, a small side of salad with vinagrette, some pickled ginger for the heat and a nice quality serving of crumbedchickenor pork. 

it's important to remember that with every full dish you can add a ramen or udon at a heavily discounted price, so you can transform your $11chickeninto a $16 ramen soup pluschickencurry two course meal.

i also am a big fan of their tempura because it's always perfectly crispy and the vegetables are very well cooked, the carrots end creamy and sweet and the prawns have this fabulous coating, they're also always fresh (no fishyness!). 

the ramen/udon aren't perfect, but they're a good price and a lot of people seem to be happy to go there for it as well. please be aware ramen is definitely popular, but quite a few arent as happy with the udon, so you may want to avoid it. 

this place is crazy popular with ubereats and deliveroo and with uni students because of their price to quality ratio. 

the locale itself is so-so, sadly it isn't the best decorated but instead more encouraging to have a quick meal and chat and leave; staff are always very, very polite though.

theirchickenand pork dishes are their strength - particularlychickenkatsu curry andchickenkaraage. good cheap prices from a little hole in the wall in a convenient brisbane city location. food is hot and fresh and priced reasonably. not as keen on their unagi don and other dishes.

the food here was cheap, generous and delicious. we ordered the grilledchickencurry rice and the salad crispychickendon. both were great.

i have always come here for theirchickenkarage curry rice, but this time i really want to try the unagi don (eel with rice). there are not too many places got good unagi don in brisbane. this is actually not too bad to cure the craving.

great for a quick bite.

the japanese curry with customisable level of spiciness is the bomb!chickenis fried to perfection, and you get a whopping amount of curry.

tried the tonkotsu ramen this time as well, and came with two free dumplings as part of a promotion. the ramen was a good generic noodle soup, and tasted almost nothing like what you would expect a ramen to be. dumplings were fried to a crisp, but had softened by the time they were served.

quick service and cheap eats around 8-10bux. probably one of the best option you can get when u eating on a budget. they serve good portion of foods. i had a karaagechickenramen , i guess it was a little bland in taste. they make good curry tho. :)

thechickenudon was a disappointment. the takayoyaki was reasonable. much better out there.

japanese street takeaway. kadoya in the cbd is a little pocket restaurant located in the elizabeth arcade near the police station. i've dined there on over a dozen occasions because it is quick and easy to reach and the food there is very filling for the price. it has a really authentic japanese feel to it with the staff there all yelling things in japanese at each other (in a friendly way of course) and the way the tables and seats are set up reminds me of some pocket restaurants in asia where space is a commodity.

the staff are very friendly and will often bow while serving your food or taking your order which i find extremely adorable. now, onto the food itself. the bento box tastes like any other bento box in any other asian restaurant, nothing really stands out about it same with the noodles which for their price is quite a small serving. i need to buy two noodle dishes if i need to be fed.

what stands out then is their chick curry. despite being such a basic dish they've somehow managed to nail it quite well. the curry is just right and thechickenis what you'd want in achickencurry. you can even decide how hot you want that dish to be and this dish alone is the only reason i come back to kadoya.

overall it's not a bad place to have a quick and easy meal.

love it. i've only had the samurai udon but the curries look pretty good and i'll be trying them out soon. not a fan of their finger foods though. gyoza andchickenkaarage were too dry, and the ramen was too bland for my friend. still, i love spicy food, and this is one of the few places i find to have good spicy noodles for cold days.