What this reading aid does
Evidence check, 25 October 2026. I checked 2 pages and counted 3 JRE category names, 6 venue and lunch dish names, and 1 weekly-rotation warning. These are source-review measurements, not visits or tastings. Verify each name against the venue's own listing on the same day you plan to go.
This page is a reading aid for names. It is not the venue's official site. It cannot take bookings. It does not describe ingredients, recipes, allergy risks, prices, or availability. Those belong to the venue, and only the venue can confirm them.
Chinese Ryori Yanyan is listed at 3-1-16 Hagoromocho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-0021. The JRE Mall Ekitoma listing and the venue homepage are the two pages behind this reading aid.
The 3 JRE category names
The JRE Mall Ekitoma listing groups its food names into three broad categories. The first is Sichuan dishes. The second is mala tang. The third is large handmade fried gyoza.
A category name is a signpost, not a menu line. It tells you the kind of cooking a listing associates with the venue. It does not tell you what is served on a given day, or at a given hour.
Read these three first if you want a quick shape of the listing. They set the outer frame before the more specific dish names.
The 6 venue and lunch dish names
The venue pages name handmade gyoza and Sichuan-style mapo tofu. The weekly lunch examples add mapo tofu, black sesame tantanmen, shrimp in chilli sauce, and black-pepper chicken. Together these make 6 dish names across the checked sources.
Note the overlap. Mapo tofu and Sichuan-style mapo tofu appear as separate strings. A reading aid should not merge them, because the sources do not say they are the same item.
The 6 names are: handmade gyoza; Sichuan-style mapo tofu; mapo tofu; black sesame tantanmen; shrimp in chilli sauce; black-pepper chicken. Treat them as labels to recognise, not as a promise of what is on offer.
The 1 weekly-rotation warning
One warning matters more than the names. The weekly lunch examples rotate. The sources present them as examples, not as a current-menu promise.
That single warning changes how you read the other names. A dish name can be listed and still not be served on your date. The listing is a sample, not a schedule.
So use the names to know what to look for. Then check the venue's own listing for the day you plan to go. Confirm before you travel.
How to read a name without over-reading it
Start with the category. Sichuan dishes, mala tang, and large handmade fried gyoza sit at the top of the listing.
Then move to the specific name. Handmade gyoza, Sichuan-style mapo tofu, black sesame tantanmen, shrimp in chilli sauce, and black-pepper chicken are the specific strings the sources use.
Then stop. A name does not tell you heat level, portion, serving time, or whether it is available. The sources do not state those things. A reading aid should not invent them.