The followings are late posts. Me and my sis visited Tokyo early this December and these are our food photo journals.
We actually had planned a list of foods we want to eat while in Tokyo. But in the end we ate whatever we stumbled upon - Time is our enemy!!! (we only had 4 full days). Even so, we had a great culinary experience, some were even the best of its kind I ever tried.
We'll start the Part 1 with the local dishes. Chopsticks and fork ready, here we go!
Sushi at Tsukiji Fish Market
Whenever you read travel or culinary blog about Tokyo, eating sushi at Tsukiji Market is one of the top suggestions because this is THE place to get the freshest sushi in town, so obviously we had to put it on our list.
We had our sushi at Sushizanmai. We ordered the sushi set (honestly we didn't know what sushi included - we just saw the photos and choose :-). My sister got a set of tuna varieties (3 types of fatty tuna as picture on above top left). Mine was more various including salmon roe (above top right), sea urchin (above below left) and crab, flounder, tuna (above below right).
The fatty tunas are very good ~ ~ ~ best tuna I ever had. My sis's set also include seared tuna, which was yumm. I also love my salmon roe. It's so fresh with a hint of lemon zest flavour.
Still walking around Tsukiji, we saw a small shop with many people queued. Sis told me she read a food blog mentioned this place; they only sell Tamagoyaki (Japanese egg omelette) and they gave away samples, but you have to buy 1 slice (Yen 100).
I saw people were holding a plate of steaming eggs and it looked mouth-watering, especially in this cold weather. So we went to queue to see what all the fuss was about :) Well, luckily the queue was short so we can quickly tried. The egg was tasty, but it was too sweet for my taste.
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Ramen
A trip to Japan would not be complete without slurping a bowl of ramen. Unfortunately we didn't experience much slurping this time (but next time we will. Promise!!).
The only ramen I had was at Isetan Shinjuku (they have a restaurant on 7th floor). Granted it wasn't a specialized ramen shop, but their Shio Ramen was good. It was simple and the broth light but so flavourful.
Meanwhile my sis had a set menu of Soba and Chirashi-sushi (so colourful!).
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This restaurant had order machine outside their shop, so you need to placed your order before come in. I love this order machine - it certainly made life's easier to order food when you don't know Japanese. It's very easy : insert the money, choose your menu and a ticket came out. You give the ticket to the waiter inside the shop and she will prepare your lunch. Itadakimasu!
Locations : Tsukiji Fish Market, Shinjuku & Nishi-kasai