Tempura Nakayama — Restaurant in Tokyo

This restaurant is famous because popular TV program (named Solitary Gourmet/ 孤独的美食家) has introduced here. When I visited here, there were many foreign people on the queue. If you will visit here, you might be confused for the rule. Hence, I would lecture before visiting here. It's prohibited to shoot video. You can pay by cash only. You can't stay on your seat anymore after finish to eat. You should visit here before opening time (11:15) cause the queue would be long every day. I suppose the staff can't speak anything except Japanese. You might feel uncomfortable though, they have no offence. Please calm down and deal with what happens. I couldn't find any English menu. Hence before visiting here, please check the picture I upload and decide which menu...

Tempura Nakayama

The tempura bowl (¥1,100) at Tempura Nakayama in Ningyocho is also known as the ‘black tendon’. This name is obviously inspired by the colour of the tempura, which can even be a tad shocking for first-time visitors. Toppings include prawns, Japanese whiting, eel and sliced carrots. The sauce, the recipe for which has been passed down since the restaurant was first established, has a rich flavour with a delicious soy sauce aroma. The taste isn’t as strong as it looks, but rather light and easy on...

Looked for tempura bowls around Tokyo and this one is close to a more popular one and has a bit of a different style with the sauce.

It wasn't too busy when I went around lunch time and got the eel set with a piece of eggplant as well.

It was a decent rice bowl, but I was expecting the tempura to be much crispier. The sauce they use made all of it relatively soggy compared to what I would be used to with tempura bowls. It tasted good, but didn't hit the spot for me in terms of the crispy I was...