Tempura Hirao Tenjin ACROS Fukuoka — Restaurant in Fukuoka

exit through gate 16 from tenjin station. go straight to Acros building and look for the toilet. it is on the same floor, no need to go up or down. then find Tenjin with the word Japanese friter tempura. dont find only tenjin or you will mistake with other shop which display tenjin and same white Noren (curtain). the line is very long, highly recommend come at time.

2nd is make sure you have cash! the machine only accept cash. read the menu first on the upper top of the order machine, then see the amount you need to pay, then press the button and put the money in. when finished, Press the GREEN button, the changes will come out.

the sit and wait till it is your turn. ENJOY! you made it!!

the water and hot tea are freeflow, serve yourself at the counter. they have 1 kind of ricebowl for men and 1 for women (which consider women eat less than men). you can order extra rice at the order machine.

the tempura quality is amazing. that what i meant to say until i saw the shrimp not being cleaned properly before making tempura. and even the staff say it was ok? how ok is that?!?!?!. that part is where the shrimp get rid of the food and needed to be clean before doing the tempura. every tempura master know that basic knowledge!...

For non-japanese speakers: insert money for the vending machine before pressing the orders. And there is a time limit to place your orders to prevent you from hoarding the queue. Although I saw a few tourists in the queue who could not figure out the vending machine or the japanese words, so the queue was stalled anyway. Lol.

Food: Tempura is good. Light tempura, not oily. I could finish the food even though I'm already quite full. Prawns are sweet. Not much taste for the scallops though. Only gripe was my last item, the bell pepper which was still dripping oil when served to me.

Service is good. Surprisingly, there are 3 (?) non-japanese workers in the shop. Good service, they took the effort to ask me what fried veges I wanted and one of them is very patient with that. Kudos to them for doing their best in a foreign land!

Atmosphere: comfy environment, but my shirt reeks of oil smell...

We arrived at 1350 for lunch and this place is packed with line stretching out to the entrance.

There's just 1 copy of English menu by one of the ticketing machine. I suggest one person get in line, the other get the meal ticket. Take a picture of the english menu, in case, during meal you guys want to add-on a single item such as another piece of squid or another piece of bell pepper, larger portion of rice etc...

If you get the meal set, which comes with 3vegies, the picture (which i told u earlier to take) will come in handy, just point to the vegies to the kitchen stuff.

The marinated raw squid can be a tad saltish. But its quite nice to go with rice. Try the chicken thigh it looks something like this on the ticket machine. 鶏もも肉.

As for the various tempura, we have no complaints as they were freshly...