Tokyo food journey: Akihabara

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Thursday, January 6, 2022

Toritsune Shizendo (鳥つね自然洞) & Yushima Tenjin Shrine (湯島天満宮)

Today, we came to Akihabara because J wanted to get a new phone. After buying his phone, we went to Toritsune Shizendo (鳥つね自然洞) for lunch. This place has been on my google map as one of the restaurants that I really want to visit because of it's high ratings on oyakodon.

Website: https://r.gnavi.co.jp/m1e7v6110000/menu1?sc_cid=gorp_menu_all_menu1&_ga=2.31947326.1835646798.1640927209-1571684130.1640927209

Their simple menu.

This is the tokujyo oyakodon set that J got. This costs 3,100 JPY and comes with a chicken salad and tori shinjyo, which is like a fried minced chicken meatball. This was really special as I have never seen this dish before and it was delicious.

The oyakodon itself was also yummy. I just got the normal tokujyo oyakodon for 1,800 JPY.

After lunch, we walked to Yushima Tenjin Shrine (湯島天満宮) to enjoy the peach blossoms.

There were many people and hence, hard to grab a nice shot alone without masks. This place is famous for their peach blossoms and there is a festival here every year during this time.

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Shinasobatanakasekando (志奈そば田なかセカンド), Akihabara

I haven't been to Akihabara in a very long time.

If it wasn't for Y san who invited me here for ramen, who knows when would be the next time I visit Akihabara.

We visited this ramen shop called Shinasobatanakasekando (志奈そば田なかセカンド)

Website: https://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1311/A131101/13190830/

Along the way, we passed by this interesting looking anime shrine.

We went all the way there for this special salt based soup ramen.

This is their popular item and they only serve 30 servings of this a day.

While it looks plain, the soup s actually very flavourful and you can request for toppings to go along with your ramen, which I didn't because I just want to enjoy the soup as it is.

The soup was filled with umami flavours from the shrimp, abalone and escargot that were used in preparing the broth.

As you can see, this little ramen shop is pretty popular.

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

スペインバルバル Akihabara

Met up with H san and Mish for dinner after work on a Friday night at スペインバルバル at Chomp Chomp Akihabara.

Website: http://r.gnavi.co.jp/p859601/

No, the beer is not mine, I ordered an orange juice. heehee....

Apparently their osusume menu changes every month and when we were there, it was this~

This is the fish and paprika ahijo (780 yen). A first for me and absolutely delicious~!!! :D Though we're not sure why they only gave us one baguette when there were 3 of us!

This here is the korean-inspired pizza with gochujang mayo (780 yen). Interesting flavours and while we did not taste the gochujang, it was delicious!

Their no.1 dish - seafood paella (980 yen). This was ok, not as great as I imagined it to be~

Prawn and broccoli ahijo (680 yen). This time we requested for additional baguettes!

Braised beef tendon (680 yen). Another first for me....while the flavours were interesting and good, I didn't really enjoy the texture of the dish.

Overall, it was a pretty good experience for me....first time having tapas~ Next time, I'll probably make a reservation first as I didn't enjoy sitting on high chairs.