Ikkyu

My husband and I ordered the katsudon. They were huge bowls, however the pork was dark and soggy and the rice was soaked in too much sauce. The dish was extremely salty. It had little resemblance to the Japanese katsudon I remember when I lived there. Nor was it nearly as good as the versions I’ve had on the west coast. This review is based only on the katsudon I ordered. Other dishes on the menu might be better.

If you’re looking at this review you are probably debating which of the lotte restaurants you should eat at. This one is super cheap eats and they offer such delicious food for the price. I always get the udon and tonkkansoo platter. It’s a great option if you’re having a hard time deciding what to eat. You get the best of two dishes!

Good Japanese comfort food. We like to come here onoccasion. The price is good and there are plenty of other places within the Lotte food court. I’m kind of partial to the katsu don.

I usually get the chicken teriyaki here because it tastes good and easy on the wallet for a good amount of take-​out food. I haven’t tried the other items on the menu because… well, I really have no reason except that I just like chicken teriyaki over everything else.
It seems like the portion have gotten a bit smaller over the last year, and they don’t have kimchi as one of the sides anymore, just the yellow pickled radish. My preference is kimchi mixed with teriyaki, but perhaps they’re trying to be more authentically Japanese in food. The other side is pasta salad, which is ok.
The other offerings on the menu look pretty good, and they do have a variety of Japanese noodles like zarisoba and udon to choose from.

I love this place because quality of foods is excellent. It looks like they always use fresh ingredients. I love Katsu with noodle soup. Katsu comes with rice and vegetables. Teriyaki chicken is so delicious, which also comes with rice and vegetables. The foods are around $ 8 to $ 10. They have reasonable price because they are located in the food court of LottePlaza grocery store in Ellicott city. This is best Japanese restaurant for me in this area.

My favorite place to get food when I go eat at Lotte plaza. I’m one of these boring people who usually plays it safe by ordering the same items every time I go to an establishment because if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it? (Okay, I’ll make more of an effort to try new things, Unilocal.You convinced me.)
My usual orders here are shrimp or chicken teriyaki. (I lean towards the shrimp because it comes with my favorite vegetable — broccoli — whereas the chicken comes with onion, and I guess I like seeing a bit of green. It makes me feel a little healthier with all that yummy sodium-​loaded teriyaki sauce. ^^) I’ve also gotten the unadon and udon noodles. I believe I’ve ordered other things but those 4 are what I order most of the time. Food is always very delicious. The portions have gotten a bit smaller in the 5 years that I’ve been coming here; not so much that I’m really upset about it, but juuuust enough that I’ve noticed. You get pretty typical Korean sides (despite the fare being Japanese): kimchi or yellow pickled radishes, a little salad tossed with pasta. Omnomnom.
I never have complaints about this place. Tasty and decently priced, they are the first stall you pass and always the first place I stop to do my choosy little dance about options.

Cash only!
SX got the Katsu Curry Entrée (Curry Tonkatsu). It was a large plate of a nicely fried and yummy tonkatsu, with rice, pasta salad, curry, and wilted looking/​dried limpy slices of Takuwan (pickeled yellow radish). It also came with a miso soup.
The curry was not very good. A bit bland, lack of spice, and the veggies they put in didn’t look too good (looked like a canned veggie mix of corn, peas, & carrots).
Probably go back and just get Katsu-​don or tonkatsu… just nothing curry related from Ikkyu. I’ll just stick to making curry at home for SX.

Another food court next to a smelly (compared to the Giant) Korean grocery store? Hooray!
Ikkyu, the first restaurant you pass when you enter the Lotte food court, appears to be the most popular place here at lunch time. They serve real Japanese food, and not that silly overpriced junk you get at Sushi King or Sushi Sono. I’m talking about the kind of food that real people eat on a regular basis.
My katsu don was just right with a good coating of egg on the crispy ton katsu, and a nice drizzle of sweet sauce that wasn’t too much for the amount of rice. It cam with a strange salad of greens topped with macaroni salad. The miso soup was simple but good. All of this came at the great price of about $ 7.
They have a lot of real classics, like katsu don and katsu curry, curry rice, soba, udon, tempura, butadon, and a good number of others. There are even some neighboring Korean booths that have other modern Japanese dishes like omurice and wafu hamburger.