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Kara-Age Meal at “Akasaka Tosaka”, Roppongi 1-Chome
- 2018/4/8
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Today is a “My Tree Meals” article after a long time.
I’ve been sick for about 2 months due to too much working, and it had been difficult to eat outside.
The work and my condition became better this week, so I tried eating out.
…Well, I’ll be back to horrible-working-week next week, though ^^;
Akasaka Tosaka
Today’s restaurant is “Akasaka Tosaka” in Roppongi 1-chome which I visited for lunch yesterday.
It’s located in Roppongi Grand Plaza in Roppongi 1-chome.
You might feel strange because the restaurant’s name is “Akasaka” but it’s in Roppongi.
Actually, Akasaka and Roppongi 1-chome are not so apart, and the restaurant was originally run in Akasaka according to the internet.
It moved in when Roppongi Grand Tower opened.
I visited this restaurant in February 2017.
Then I had a chicken hot pot which was a limited special menu at that time.
The chicken pot’s ingredients were only chicken and some vegetables, but the soup was very nice with chicken stock and it didn’t need soy-sauce or other additional seasonings.
I came with my colleague then so I didn’t take pictures or write blog about it.
This time I came by myself, so I can write about it now.
Well, this “Tosaka” was very open atmosphere inside with counter seats surrounding the kitchen, and table seats at the outer side.
What!? Is this Karaage!!?
The next photo is the menu.
The time I came was about half passed one, so the limited menu was all sold out.
It took some time to choose one, but finally I decided to have ”Deep Fried Chicken (Kara-Age) Lunch set” because it is ordinal menu as lunch meal.
My image of “Kara-Age meal” was a plate of 4 to 6 round chicken pieces on shredded cabbage.
The surprising is that
it was completely different. In Japanese, “Kara-Age” means deep-fried chicken of Japanese style, and “Fried Chicken” is deep-fried chicken of western style.
This chicken was rather “Fried Chicken”. Well, both are deep-fried chicken, so nothing is wrong, anyway.
It’s been about 15 years since I moved to Tokyo, and I had not had meals outside often in Tokyo.
Maybe “Kara-Age” has been evolved while I was away from Japan’s food trend…?
The coating was nicely crunchy, and the chicken was moderately juicy and delicious.
There was grated daikon radish with Ponzu (mix of soy-sauce and citrus vinegar) on the chicken. Ponzu we often see are made with bitter orange juice, but this Ponzu tasted like yuzu citron.
What a amazing soup!?
And this soup!
It reminded me of the chicken pod which I had visited here.
This soup had rich flavor of chicken and it was very nice.
This amazing soup would make great impression the gourmet artists, who is a character in a gourmet comics (Oishinbo) refered frequently by me.
At the first sight, this meal broke my previous image of Kara-Age.
However, each dish entertained me and I really enjoyed this meal after all. It was a beautiful Kara-Age lunch.
The concept of this restaurant is “great paring of chicken dish, wine, and Japanese sake”, so I want to try again at night time and have some sake with chicken.
It takes kind of nerve to go to such a fancy restaurant alone, though…^^;
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