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I'm really bored and I've been going through some of my Tokyo photos and found quite a few sets of food pictures. I probably won't have too much time/motivation in the future, so I'm just going to post from the best sets.
This is a restaurant we visited some time in June, called Tempura Kondo. It's a two-star Michelin restaurant located in central Ginza, which should put my star-count to double digits, or very close at least. A reservation was quite difficult to get; both lunch and dinner were booked out weeks in advance, but there was a cancellation on a weekday lunch, and we immediate took it (still a week in advance).
I actually dislike tempura for the most part because they are usually very greasy (an exception was at an udon shop in shikoku; you can read it here: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=94205), but this was a really great experience. The tempura courses served here were very crispy, light and somehow refreshing. I think this is due to a mixture of their technique, batter, and top-grade sesame oil that they change very frequently.
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Prawn head.
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Green pepper.
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Eggplant.
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Anago (salt-water eel)
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Imo (sweet potato)
This was actually the best thing EVER (one of my most favourite things I had in Japan). They began frying this beast the second they took our order, and did not serve it until the very end; so it was lightly fried for well over an hour. The outside of the imo was extremely crispy due to the caramelization, and the inside was soft and moist, almost as if it was baked.
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Ten-don. Basically a ball of tempura (with shellfish and veggies) on rice.
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I really like this picture. If you look carefully enough, you can see the two stars in the framed box on the left.
I'm so uncultured.![[image loading]](http://blog.prospect.org/blog/weblog/district%209.jpg)
