Jingisukan

My sister and her husband took me to "Akamaru Zingis"to eat some jingiskan tonight.

"Jingisukan" is a lamb (or mutton) barbecue which is popular in Japan recently.

The name of Jingisukan comes from Genghis Khan but it's unrelated to him actually.

It's said that Jingisukan was born in Hokkaido, in the north of Japan and was influenced by Chinese food kaoyanro(烤羊肉).

Jingiskan became popular especially in women because lamb is on a low-calorie diet.

My sister and her husband wouldn't take me to the restaurant because they had been thinking that lamb is not new for me because I live in Australia.
But Jingiskan is Japanese food therefore I've never eaten it since I moved to Sydney.

We had a bottle of Climbing wine, an Australian wine. It was very nice.

I enjoyed everything. It was such a lovely dinner.

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Ningyocho

I visited to Ningyo-cho today. There are a lot of old shops and restaurant.

I bought some "Taiyaki", a Japanese waffle which shapes fish with red bean paste filling.

There are always a lot of people in a queue for the Taiyaki.

You can buy "Ningyoyaki" there as well.

I had some fried pork cutlet for lunch at Kiraku , an yoshoku reataurant.

"Yoshoku" is Western style food which is popular in Japan such as a pork cutlet, omerice (an omelette filled with fried rice), a pork saute, etc. Most of the dishes are served with rice.

Kiraku is one of my favourite restaurant in Ningyocho.

This is Kotobukido, a Japanese-style confectionery established in 1884.

There were a lot of shops which had been changed to new building but Kotobukido's building looked very old and they mantain a tradition.

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14/10

Monjayaki

My husband arrived in Tokyo this morning and we had lunch at Tsukishima.
It is a popular place to eat Monjayaki.

Monjayaki is one of traditional food in Kanto region (in the east of Japan).

We asked woman to fry a Monjayaki. You can also fry by yourselves.

It was very hot in of the restaurant because everybody were fring their Monjayaki.

But we were used to it soon and enjoyed some beer, Monjayaki and Okonomiyaki.

Rojiura Monja Monkichi 3-8-10 Tsukishima, Chuo-ku Tokyo