Day 6 – My Trip to Japan
Posted on June 10, 2014 by Leslie Blythe 4 comments
Day 6 – My Trip to Japan
We went to Gakushuin University on a tour. Noriko, my step mother, went there. Her niece was very kind and picked us up from there and toured us around in her car. We went to a department store called Tokyu Hands, which has an amazing cooking / kitchen equipment department. I love their motto – Creative Life Store!
I bought some kitchen stuff….
We had lunch at a tempura restaurant called Tsunahachi. Founded by Kyuzo Shimura in 1923, Tsunahachi tempura opened its doors ushering in the restaurant’s long and illustrious history.
The slogan is, “Serving delicious tempura to as many customers as possible.”
He had a habit of saying,
First, come the ingredients.
Second, comes the oil.
And third comes the skill.
Tempura, one of the core Japanese dishes. It is one of the dishes brought from the West about 500 years ago. In the 16th-17th century, deep-fried cuisine similar to fritters were introduced by Chinese and Western visitors originally in Nagasaki, Japan. Since oil was used for lamps and considered precious, deep-fried dishes were very special.
Lunch came with full instructions!
They had Konbu flavored salt, wasabi flavored salt and sea salt on the table.
The miso soup was heavenly. There were these teeny tiny little clams at the bottom!
We keep walking by this noodle / gyoza hole-in-the-wall place on the way to the train station. We finally got the nerve to go there. OMG! This restaurant only has a counter that seats about 15 people at a time.
