Winter 2004 - Yakitori - Tempura - Traditional Tokyo Cuisine - Master Chef Cuisine
Tempura
Tokyo — the origin of tempura
Tempura is fresh ingredients such as seafood or vegetables dipped in a light batter and deep-fried. Among various styles, the rich, nutty type fried in sesame oil is called Edo-mae (Tokyo-style). Here, we introduce two Tokyo-style restaurants where you can appreciate seasonal seafood and vegetables.
Tempura Specialties
Eat tempura with dipping sauce (soy, sweetened sake, soup stock made from bonito flakes and kelp), or with salt. Oyster tempura is good with lemon and soy.
Oyster |
Peanut |
Goby |
Prawn |
Lotus Root |
Maitake Mushroom |
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After tempura, rice is served. Choose plain rice, kakiage-don (deep-fried diced shrimp and vegetables over rice), or tencha (kakiage-don with tea over it). |
Tempura Hatanaka
| The shrimp, deveined and shelled just before frying, is crisp. And just one bite of maitake mushroom fills your mouth with flavor. Crisp-fried tempura at Hatanaka lets customers enjoy the taste of each ingredient to the fullest. Tempura requires the highest cooking skills. The batter must be thin and lumpy. To achieve this, it has to be mixed swiftly. Only the highest-quality sesame oil is used. Meticulous care is given to the smallest details. For example, the salt was produced in one of the remote islands of Okinawa and roasted in Tokyo. Some of Hatanaka's specialties include vegetable tempura of lily buds and peanuts, unfamiliar ingredients even for Japanese. The proprietor is very enthusiastic about continuing the adoption of new types of vegetable tempura.
2-21-10 Azabujuban, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Tel. & Fax 03-3456-2406
Open 12 PM to 1:30 PM, 5:30to 8 PM
Closed Wednesdays; daytime Saturdays, Sundays, and day before national holidays
Lunch from 1,200 yen; dinner from 5,000 yen; a la carte items avallable |
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Fukamachi
Sabujudogurin Kyobashi Shinohara Bldg No. 101
2-5-2 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Tel. 03-5250-8777
Open weekdays 11:30 AM to 2 PM, 5 to 9 PM; weekends, holidays 12 PM to 3 PM, 5 to 9 PM
Closed Mondays
Lunch from 2,000 yen; dinner from 8,000 yen
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