One of the nicest meals we’ve had on this trip and also our first time trying Monjayaki! We made our way to Tsukishima because this whole lane of restaurants are mainly Monjayaki restaurants! But I did prior researched and picked Monja Moheji!

I’ve been so curious about it because in shows I see people eating with a tiny spoon and I wanted to experience it myself! It may seem like a goopy mess but it is a very savoury and delicious goopy mess!

We ordered the mentaiko monja + cheese. They start off by making a ring with the cabbage and leaving the ingredients in the middle and once sufficiently cooked, a wet flour mixture is poured in the middle. It is then cooked together until gooey and bubbling then spread out on the pan for diners to enjoy with a tiny cute spatula! I’m very sure the flour mixture is not just any ordinary one but definitely a house recipe because on its own it’s very very tasty and made even more savoury with the mentaiko and cheese. The melty mochi and still slightly crunchy gives textures and it’s an overall wonderful sensory experience. They also provide Sansho pepper and Aomori seaweed to add as you like, we tried both and they tasted just as good too 😋 The staff that cooked our monja was very skilled in his craft!

We also had the buta tamago okonomiyaki which was also cooked in front of us where the staff again showed off his skills, it was cooked perfectly and superb!

My partner also had their hotaru ika as appetizer as he couldn’t resist his squid 🤣 he said it was very fresh, juicy and huge because of the eggs in the head!

The space is very intimate but cosy and we were the only tourists but we received good and patient service. The suction in this place was also good because we didn’t smell badly when we left, our cook also sprayed us with air refreshers before we left 🤣

Lucky we had a reservation because while we were waiting (we were early) we kept seeing people wanting to enter the restaurant but were turned away because they were fully booked out!