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Image 1: This tempura place is just a short walk from Ginza station.
Image 2: A small restaurant where everyone sits around the open kitchen, being served with tempura one by one.
Image 3: Kondo 03-5568-0923 5-5-13 Ginza, Chuo-ku
Closed on Sunday and holidays
Image 4: We ordered the lunch menu (about USD$90). It came with 10 tempura, a rice dish, and fruits.
Shrimp to begin - the head first...
Image 5: ... then the body.
Image 6: To make the dipping sauce, stir the grated radish...
Image 7: ... into the soy sauce.
Image 8: The quality of vegetables is the main focus of this place. They only start chopping the vegetables when needed in order to retain their freshness.
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Then the chef skillfully gives them a lightly batter before frying in sesame oil.
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Asparagus
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Shitake mushroom
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Sillago
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Lotus root
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Green Pepper
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Goby
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Onion
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Sea Eel
Image 18:
Tendon - Kakiage (scallop fried in batter) on rice
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Ten-cha - Tendon served with special Japanese tea
Our server told us not to eat it right away.
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Wait for a few minutes until it becomes this mess, then you eat it.
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Miso soup with clam
Finally something not deep fried.
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Cantaloup
Thank god, we need some fruits after all those tempura.
Image 23: A basket of fresh vegetables and a gift from his Michelin celebration.
It's enjoyable to have a few tempura at once, but a meal full of tempura, we don't think we can do that again.
