Tendon in historical architecture.
I went to Minowa that still have old street lined with houses built before the war with my friends.
“Yoshiwara” may be easier to understand. It is not exactly. But Minowa is within the walking distance from Yoshiwara.
Dote no Iseya
土手の伊勢屋。天丼屋さんです。ゴリッパな建物。重要文化財なんですよ。
This wooden house was built before the 2nd World War. It looks gloomy just a little in the house. What is the upstairs like ? I’m very interesting…
Everything is marvelous. I wanna live there in…
戦前に建てられた木造家屋。ちょっと陰気な店内。それがまたイイ。２階には何があるのだろう。。。(*´д｀*)
There’re three degrees of tendon. “I”, “RO”, “HA”. Those degrees have same size of bowl of rice and there’s difference in the quality and quantity of tempura between those degrees of tendon.
I choiced a “RO” (天丼ロ, 1900 yen), the middle of the degrees. And also I ordered a miso soup with nameko mushrooms (なめこ椀, 200 yen).
濃くて甘めのたれが惜しげもなく丼の底までしみてます。天ぷらはおいしく食べれましたが、後半飽きてしまいました(ﾉ∀`)
Tendon”RO” have a big prawn (maybe black tiger prawn ?), conger eel, kakiage with cubed squid and sweet green pepper tempura. It was enough large !
Every ingredients were springy. But I didn’t like the seasonings.
As same as this architecture, plenty of sweet and thick sauce from the old days was put on it.
the sauce has soaked into the rice, till bottom of the bowl.
Everyone except me ate it with pleasure. But I don’t like sweet foods all the same…
Those ingredients were thick and the sauce hasn’t soaked into those internals. So I could enjoy eating it. But I couldn’t eat up rice with plenty of sweet sauce.
Miso soup with nameko mushroom was so tasty 🙂
しかしですね。こんな空間でゴハンを頂けるということはないんですよ(´･ω･`)
But it is very valuable experience to have meal in such a historical architecture.
They serve also assorted tempura, so I want to order it next time 🙂
And then we went to Bach that I also wanted to go.
そのあとはもう一つ気になっていたカフェ。「バッハ」。
Because it stand in Minowa area, so I expected the cafe would be so gloomy. But as you see, so stylish cafe based on white color.
もっと陰気なカフェを想像していたら、あらまあ、なんてすてきなカフェ(*´д｀*)
I had a coffee there.
HAITI – MARE BLANCHE (ハイチ・マール・ブランシュ, 600 yen)
This coffee lived up to all the rave reviews it got. Though I put much milk and sugar into it 😛
コーヒーはさすが、評判のおいしさです（←たっぷり砂糖とミルク入れといて･･･）
By the way, Minowa is not safe. It is Japanese skid row. So I recommend you don’t go at nighttime there.
We walked along comparatively safe, main street at daytime.
But there are some gloomy and vicious back alleys.
About Dote-no-Iseya (土手の伊勢屋)
Address / 1-9-2 Nihon dutsumi, Taito-ku, Tokyo
Station / Minowa station (Tokyo metro)
Open / 11:30 – 14:00, 17:00 – 20:00
Saturdays, Sundays and another national holidays / 11:00 – 19:30
Closed / Wednesdays
Website / http://doteno-iseya.com/(in Japanese only)
About Bach (バッハ)
Address / 1-23-9 Nihon dutsumi, Taito-ku, Tokyo
Station / Minami-Senjyu station (JR)
Open / 8:30 – 20:00
Closed / Fridays
Website / http://www.bach-kaffee.co.jp/(in Japanese only)
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That tempura looks scrumptious! YUM!