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Tempura Hisago
Where? Tempura Hisago (Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan) Map
When? Sunday February 5, 2017
Who? Solo Traveller Me
Food Style? Japanese Tempura
After another exhausting day, Amy has another recommendation for me. This time for tempura in Akihabara, inside a shopping mall, and it's a bit more foreigner-friendly than the last restaurant I wrote about. This one comes with a handy guide on how to eat tempura, and how to use the various condiments.
Base Set
I order a tasting menu. The base set comes with salad, rice, miso soup, and various saucers for the condiments available - tempura sauce, lemon and rock salt.
Shrimp Tempura
The tempura is light and crispy on the outside, with the seafood maintaining a good texture on the inside. This is very good quality, and doesn't feel oily at all. The lemon goes really well with the shrimp, giving it that familiar acidity and sweetness to accentuate what it already has.
Fish, Broccoli, Eggplant, Squid
The next batch arrives. The food is served slowly so that they remain hot and crispy, and it doesn't go soggy in between. There's also a tempura fish tail which I forgot to take a photo of; that's how delicious the food was.
Prawn Fritter, Pumpkin
The final batch, the largest of them all, arrives. The fritter is almost too cumbersome to pick up with my chopsticks but somehow I manage.
I got nine pieces of very good quality tempura for just 2750 yen. To be perfectly honest, it really isn't hard to find good food in Japan, and lots of places are quite friendly towards foreigners, especially since they are gearing up for the 2020 Olympics.
Posted by Jeremy at 7:59pm on Friday February 24, 2017 :: 0 comments :: 