Everybody says 'Tempura is one of Japanese foods you must have.' Yes, it is. When you visit Japan, you must visit tempura restaurants.
I would like to share with you about my family's case. Our family from UK go to Tempura restaurant every time when they visit, particularly my mother in low loves Tempura.
She has been to Japan more than 10 times and her recent one was this year. She chooses the best time in Japan, Spring, even last year after the earthquake.
Japan has four beautiful seasons, but especially it is fabulous in Spring, because of good mild weather, Easter holiday for kids and cherry blossom parties.
She and her husband stayed for a month this time and visited a lot of places in Japan.
There are many things they love in Japan, but I am sure food is one of them. They liked a lot of Japanese cuisines such as Sushi, Sashimi, Shabu-shabu and Japanese steaks.
One of the cuisines that they must eat once for a stay is Tempura. It is no exception this time.
However, because we were so busy this time, we had not been to Tempura yet, so this was two days before their last day in Tokyo.
I did a quick search on the web, I found Tenmatsu in Shibuya.
We wanted to go to close to our place and the restaurant with counter seats.
Tempura restaurants are in famous department stores as tenants, but we prefered a restaurant on the road.
Tenmatsu's recommendation on the web was good.
Close to Shibuya
Not so expensive
Long history
Fresh Food
Good tastes
So we chose this restaurant.
During the Golden Week, we could have seats without booking. We chose counter seats for 4 of us.
I always recommend to keep a seat in the counter when you go to Japanese restaurants. It can be bit challenging for Sushi, but it is easier for Tempura.
It looks Tempura chef makes deep fried Tempura so easily, however this requires a lot of skills and experience. So it is always fun to see of the process of cooking as well as skills. If you have any comments or questions, please do, you would enjoy your visit more. The language can be bit difficult, but worth trying when it is not busy. Tempura is a typical example of the open kitchen here in Japan.
There was an only one chef and he was focusing quietly and seriously to serve lunch for use. But we asked about displayed vegetables.
There was a bunch of fresh vegetables in front of him, this show their pride for today's foods. Indeed there are a lot of fresh, Spring vegetables there. They looked great and he told me the names of each vegetables. There are Fukinoto, Kogomi, Zenmai and Renkon.
The lunch set did not contain those Spring vegitables unfortunately, I guessed they would go to dinner set. So it would be great here in Tenmatsu to enjoy the dinner.
I had Lunch tendon, Tempura bowl, there in the picture of the top. The Tendon had 2 shrinps, that I liked and some more vegitables. It tasted very good!!
If you are Tempura bigginner, I recommend starting from lunch set at the long-running Tenpura restaurants, such as Tenmatsu.
Temoura Tenmatsu Shibuya Honten
1-6-1, Dogenzaka
Shibuya
Tokyo
03-3462-2815
English website
http://www.tenmatsu.com/english/index.htm
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