Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

August is a season when there are many festivals nationwide, but there are many events in Chuo-ku, including Sumiyoshi Taisha Shrine Reitaisai festival, Tokyo Bay Fireworks Festival, and Tomioka Hachimanji Miya carrying of miniature shrines. I would like to see a blog post from my correspondent, and last Sunday, August 9th was National Day in Singapore. This year was a memorable year of 50 years of independence from the Federal Republic of Malay, and it seems to be a fairly grand festival. In recent years, when the midsummer climate continues in Chuo-ku, I visited a Singapore restaurant in Hatchobori today to enjoy the ever-summer Singapore mood.

 The name of the shop is "Kopi Tiam", which is often heard in Singapore. It means a "coffee shop" with Tiam (store; Fujian) attached to the Malay word Kopi (coffee), and it is an image of a coffee shop or snack shop that offers snacks in addition to drinks such as coffee.

When you open the automatic door of the shop along Suzuran Street and enter, there is a space where about 20 people can sit under the fluorescent light. 。 。 It's already full of Southeast Asian mood. There are black and white photographs of old Singapore on the wall, which further enhances the atmosphere.

We arrive at a white table that we don't care about, and first we will have a classic "Tiger Beer". I'd like to drink on the jokki and on the rocks like the Hawker Center (outdoor food court) in Singapore, but today I'm polite to have a glass straight.

The restaurant recommends the typical Singapore cuisine "Hainan Chicken Rice", "Nashigoren (Indonesia-style stir-fried rice)," meat bone tea (bakute), "South India-style curry" and the Hawker Center in Singapore. That should be the case, and his husband, Mrs. and Mrs. A, lived in Singapore 30 years ago, so they seem to know the local taste. Even after returning to Japan, the shop was opened in Tokyo as a place where you can enjoy authentic Singapore cuisine, and the taste of Singaporeans living in Tokyo also goes to the shop with origami.

I decided to have "meat bone tea" tonight. If you're not familiar with Singaporean cuisine, hear it's meat bone tea. ？ ？ I think so please give me a mini commentary here. 。 。

It contains the word "tea", but as you can see, it is a medicinal soup that contains pork with bone, not tea. It seems to originate from the cuisine of Fujian, the hometown of bitterness (Kouri; migrant workers from China) during the colonial period of British territory. There is only a dish developed as a meal for port workers on the Malay Peninsula, which has a severe climate, and plenty of meat contains garlic, cinnamon, pepper, pacchi and other spices, and it is full of nutrients and energy. I'm going to survive this heat. Next time, by all means, I would like to try "South India-style curry" recommended on the way home. My husband says it's quite painful, but I'm looking forward to it now.

【Singapore Kopi TIam】

〒104-0032 2-18-5, Hacchobori, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

TEL： 03-6280-3442

Business hours 1800-2200 (Lunch is also open and closed on weekends and holidays)

It's hot every day, and at such times, be fine with meat!

That's why I went to a lunch with a friend for the teppanyaki Hibiki boeuf in Ginza.

I happened to be doing a time sale on a one-stop site.

Normally 9,900 yen → 4,400 yen! Comes with glass champagne! A total of 9 luxurious teppanyaki full course!

It's an unexpected lunch!

First, there is an assortment of seafood appetizers, and pumpkin soup

Today's fish are swordfish and wagyu beef fillet meat

I ordered an additional red glass of wine here (laughs).

And there was also Hayashi Rice ~ Hashed Beef Rice.

The last dessert~ (*^^*)

All of them were delicious and very satisfying gorgeous lunch.

The cooler was good, so it was comfortable and delicious even with teppanyaki (* ^^*)

Hibiki boeuf's homepage

At this hot summer lunch, I went for a walk and went to buy Dorayaki to eat sushi at "Funasushi" in Kofune-cho.

Since the town split in Keicho 8 (1603), it seems to be called Shimo-Funamachi, and then it has become Kofune-cho.
Despite being surrounded by a building, in a quiet appearance, we received a "lunch of lunch".
(Today there is a soft Hokkaido octopus suction cup, I eat it with yuzu.)
This luxurious time when you can get to the counter at the counter, I told the general who was busy, "On the calendar, it's still hot, even though it's early autumn." It seems that the spawning season is slow). That's right.

　
Mr. Funasushi H/P http://www.funazushi.info/

※You can see the sushi picture book by clicking. 　

Beside Horidome Park, "Kiyokazuken", such as Dorayaki, which has been popular with the common people since the end of the Tokugawa period, has not been sold out today, Anko here can not be stopped.

Kiyokazuken H/P http://seijuken.com/?page_id=13

I visited "Kobo-style Rika", a handmade typographic printing company at Muromachi 1-chome, which I learned on TV on weekends.

A small "marriage business card" is an idea, while working for the local area, I knew this place for the first time, and saw the goodness of handmade as Shimijimi, I would like to make something business card.

　※Click on the above two photos to get bigger.

I think there are many people who go abroad during summer vacation. This year's first World Exposition is being held in Milan for the first time in five years. The theme of the exposition is "Food for the Earth and Energy for Life (Nutrire il pianeta, energia per la vita)". 。 。 It's just "food." At the pavilion in each country, the Japanese Pavilion showcases its own ingredients and cuisine, and at the Expo, the Japanese Pavilion has been promoting "Wahoku" by UNESCO Intangible Cultural Property to the world.

Appearance of the Japan Pavilion at the Milan Expo, and the logo of EXPO Milano 2015.

　
The theme of "food" is Italy and the place is also Italy, so it is a Expo where you can fully enjoy eating and drinking delicious pasta and professional shoots (prospered ham) and Tuscanna wine with it. That's why I would like to explore Italian cuisine in Chuo-ku this time after the Milan Expo, which is being held in Italy.

By the way, in fact, Chuo-ku is a fierce battlefield of Italian cuisine known to those who know it. Just a short walk around the neighborhood of the house, there are three shops with the green, white and red Torico Lorre flags (according to Yahoo Loco Search, there are 771 Italian restaurants throughout Chuo-ku).

Anyway, I went to the nearby Italian dining room "Bettola il Bacca" and "Berry (berry) dining room". Master Kimishima says he tries to serve Italian local dishes that are not particular about specific local dishes. The table seats and the counter are in good balance. The atmosphere is easy to enter even if you want to drink alone or before meals.

In addition to drinks, Italian wine that goes well with dishes is available, and there are plenty of beer. It mainly comes from domestic, Belgium, and England, but when I found my favorite Czech beer "Pilsner Urkel", it was a guts pose. The beautiful knobs came out one after another along with the beer, and the "White Asparagus Milan-style truffle oil flavor" was also beautiful and delicious.

 At the last end, Kimishima-san's recommendation was "Uni Tomato Cream Sauce Spaghetti". When he was full of stomach, he was drunk comfortably tonight and went home with a happy feeling. [Bettola il Bacca (Betla Il Bacca)]

〒104-0033 2-18-9 Shinkawa, Chuo-ku Nakagusuku Building 1F

(About a 5-minute walk from Hatchobori on the Keiyo Line and Hibiya Line. Near Tokyo Bus East 15/16 Shinkawa 2-chome bus stop)

TEL： 03-3553-8819

Business hours 1700-2400 (There is also lunch on weekdays and Saturday)

Today is dinner with a Spanish friend who has come to Japan for work for the first time in five years. I also wanted to enjoy "Wahoku", which became a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Property, so I visited "Tempura Abe" in Ginza 4-chome. The shop was located on the first basement floor of a food and beverage building that stands quietly north of Ginza Brick Street from Harumi-dori St., which is crowded. When you get off the elevator and enter inside, it changes completely and bright atmosphere. There is also a table seat in the foreground, but the main one is a counter where 12 people can sit. Immediately after celebrating the reunion with a friend and toasting with beer, Mr. Abe, the owner himself, showed me the ingredients that were filled with, and fried one by one in front of him.

Starting from Saimaki shrimp, lotus root, pumpkin, small pillar, pea, maitake. 。 。 The combination of tempura, German rock salt and French sea salt is also unique.

At the counter, you can put the freshly fried food on the plate immediately, and enjoy conversations with the shopkeeper, and feel like you're getting tempura at a stall tripping into the city of Edo rather than Ginza!

[Hoegatasai "Edo Modern Artist Zou-maki" (collected by the Tokyo National Museum)]

Not only the crispy tempura texture, but also the dessert where mini sea bream-yaki tempura and iced coffee whipped with a tea whisk are served, as expected, Abe has been fried tempura for 30 years at "Japanese cuisine Nadaman". It's like hospitality. It was a night when I enjoyed the food of Edo.

[Ginza Tempura Abe]

〒104-0061 B1F, Subaru Building 4-3-7 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

TEL: 03-6228-6077

Business hours Dinner 1700-2100 (lunch is also available)

This is the end of today's work. I still have time until the evening banquet. 。 。 When I walked to Ginza while thinking that it would be thirsty when it was so hot, I found a nice standing drink BAR. It is a shop under the expressway where Sotobori-dori St. and Tokyo Kosoku Doro intersect. As I mentioned in my blog post before, it is a place equivalent to "Bikunihashi" depicted in Hiroshige Utagawa's "Hundred Views of Edo, Bikunihashi Snow" (/archive / 2014/04/post-1949.html). Tokyo Kosoku Doro is made by reclaiming the old Kyobashi River, so it means that the river was flowing here until 55 years ago.

When you enter the store, there is a small table near the counter and window, where you can enjoy a little drink while 1 sho and 4 go bottles are lined up narrowly. In addition to enjoying the recommended sake and knobs of the shop, those who are home parties can buy sake here and go home. Originally, it is a standing drinker run by a liquor store in Yokohama called Kimishimaya, and there are plenty of varieties such as shochu and wine as well as sake. I received Chigasaki liquor called Tensei, which was recommended by the shop, and it was cold and very delicious!

By the way, this Kimishimaya was founded in 1892. It opened in Tokyo in 2006 (Marunouchi store) and reopened as this Ginza store in 2013. There is also a wine cellar in the back of the store, filled with wine directly imported from production areas such as France, Italy, Spain and the United States.

In this season when the sun is long, how about a cup while looking at the office town in Marunouchi in the evening?

[Ginza Kimishimaya]

〒104-0061 Konya Building 1F, 2-1 Ginza 1-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

TEL: 03-5159-6880

Business hours 1030-2100 (until 2000 on Saturday and 1900 on Sunday)