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Tempura and Yakitori

Tempura and Yakitori

In the realisation that I have 3 weeks left in Japan, I have begun to stuff my face as fast as possible.  So lets begin… Tempura The place setting in a restaurant in the Keio department store Yum yum main course.  Prawn, prawn head, anago …

Timeless tempura

Timeless tempura

Do you know where tempura comes from?  Apparently it was adopted from the Portuguese but now is something very very different.  My London friends and I ended up going to some hidden tempura shop.  The entrance looked like the back of some grimey (well grimey for Tokyo …