Tsukiji's Shouro Tamagoyaki 築地の松露玉子焼

Shouro Tamagoyaki
Chuo-ku, Tsukiji 4-13-13
03-3543-0582
www.shouro.co.jp

Our favorite tamagoyaki shop in the market, Shouro has a variety of savory egg omelettes including:

tobitama - with green flecks of aonori
karatou - sprinkled with ichimi (dried red chili pepper) so it has a bit of a kick to it
Kishu - with tart Kishu umeboshi
Kame age - with sakura ebi (dried shirmp), negi, and mitsuba
oyakoyaki - with ground chicken and mitsuba
umaki - with unagi
komaki - small round egg omelette
Shouro - their basic tamagoyaki
aigamo - with duck meat
matsutake - with matsutake mushrooms
Tanba - with chestnuts

Shouro also has branches in depachika like Mitsukoshi in Ginza.

Okowa Yonehachi おこわ米八

Depachika are filled with many bento boxes. Deciding on which one to have for lunch is always a tough decision. One of my favorites, that I go back to time and time again is Okowa Yonehachi. The shop is in most depachika. The front of the shop has several steaming baskets of sticky rice cooked with different ingredients. This bento box is from Okowa Yonehachi in Tokyo Station's basement area, GranSta.

The three sticky rice are different flavors and the colorful side dishes are all well-seasoned. The rice is put in steaming hot and warms the soul.

Click on the link below to see some of their colorful bentos:

http://yonehachi.co.jp/obento/index.html

If you are in Tokyo this week...

There are some great food events going on at some of the department stores around town.

Mitsukoshi in Nihonbashi is doing a Yamagata Fair on the 7th floor of their main building. Soba, Yonezawa gyu, and konnyaku are great.

Tobu in Ikebukuro is doing a Niigata Fair on the 10th floor. Nihonshu, rice, and seafood are highlights.

Takashimaya in Shinjuku has an interesting event featuring universities around the country involved in food research. Most curious is you can try Kinki maguro, the tuna that is raised from the egg. I believe there are only two fisheries doing this in the world, both in Japan. I didn't have time to try their donburi, but spoke with one of their reps. He said it is as good as wild caught tuna (what else is he going to say?).

www.mitsukoshi.co.jp/store/1010/yamagata/
www.tobu-dept.jp/ikebukuro/event/event.php?kaijyo_kbn=1&sj_no=3088