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“Genpachi Sendo” is a secret well-known store of Nakameguro.
It is said to this restaurant that it is particularly attractive for people loving Japan.
For a tourist, as for the exquisite Shimazushi and Japanese food which are available only here, it is an unforgettable special experience if it comes once.
The Shimazushi performs topping of the fish which I soaked in soy sauce with a kind of traditional sushi of Hachijojima and I touch mustard in substitution for wasabi and eat.
It is at a time of the supreme bliss that the dishes which put fresh fishery products and traditional technique together are left in the memory.
Please enjoy a luxurious meal at the restaurant which can enjoy full-scale taste of Japan while spending relaxed time.
I comment on the shop “Genpachi Sendo” that a Japanese recommends with confidence this time.
What is “Genpachi Sendo”??
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“Genpachi Sendo” nestling quietly in the quiet residential area of Nakameguro is a secret well-known store loved by a local gourmet and a domestic tourist.
The Shimazushi using fresh fishery products is particularly famous, and the skill and the passion of the craftsman loaded one sushi with attract many customers each.
I have the menu which adopted an idea while respecting a tradition on the source eight legendary wizards way abundantly and wait for new discovery and impression to be new to visitors.
As the particularly seasonally limited Special Menu can enjoy taste of such a time, it is the attractive shop which I want to visit again and again.
Three articles of noted products of “Genpachi Sendo“
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I use the ingredients of Hachijojima abundantly
It’s a nice hidden restaurant, I use the fresh ingredients which rich nature of Hachijojima brought up for feces sputum.
Particularly, the dishes which took in a local special product not to be able to taste provide a special experience to people visiting it in the others including Kusaya and asahibashi of the Hachijojima name.
As I can enjoy not only dishes but also the shochu from Hachijojima, I can enjoy the dishes to be able to taste only here.
Please enjoy full-scale local cooking
In Genpachi Sendo , you can enjoy a traditional dish of full-scale Hachijojima.
I have Shimazushi, the hydrangea tempura, local dishes including the Kusaya firing abundantly.
The modern technique is made in spite of being the harvest by a traditional recipe and can feel culture and history of Hachijojima every mouthful.
For a tourist, the regional cuisine is one of the big pleasure of the trip that can experience the taste of the heartwarming home-cooked meal incidentally.
The new menu always has new discovery
I introduce a new menu in this shop every season and always offer meal experiences with the new discovery.
As I appear on the original menu by the inventive idea of dishes and the chef using seasonal ingredients regularly and can enjoy taste whenever it comes, even a new repeater may not get tired.
By charm of the shop which continues evolving, please always sense new menu children bodily.
What kind of feeling is the shop?
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I went to the field when I knew the atmosphere of the shop!
It is on Nakameguro the second floor of the arena.
Please check the noted product menu of the restaurant before going out.
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There was a Japanese-style atmosphere for the reputation of a lantern and the tree when I arrived in front of a shop.
What kind of feeling is the shop?
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Shochu from Hachijojima forms a line at the counter seat.
Attractive one of these shops can enjoy the shochu which does not circulate very much in Japan either.
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The table was clean, and the seat was comfortable, too.
What kind of cooking can you enjoy?
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I will read a menu if I sit down in my seat.
I see a letter of “Shimazushi” “Kusaya” “Asuwa” on the cover of the menu.
As these three are specialties of the shop, how about tasting it by all means when it came?
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A repertory including salad and the tempura is abundant as well as fishery products when I read a menu.
The thing which is marked red by a menu seems to be particularly recommended.
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Please order the publication which liquor and shochu like in what have the drink which is available only here including Hachijojima shochu abundantly from the left-hand page with a meal by all means.
As the alcohol frequency is 25% or more, the person who cannot hold the liquor, please be careful.
Sake, please prefer the favorite one to shochu from a sake menu of the back side.
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I ate some dishes worried about!
I ordered a thing worried about on seeing a menu from here and ate!
①Shimazushi
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The Shimazushi is one of the specialties of this restaurant.
At the moment when I was able to enter the entrance, it tasted different from all sushi which I ate so far.
It may be a shock for the person who has eaten sushi so far.
The unique flavor that hotness mixed with sweetness spread in a mouth.
②Eight kinds of assorted sashimi
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As three kinds of sashimi was available from five kinds, eight kinds, a kind ordered many things most.
Let alone basic tuna, salmon, sea bream sashimi, I prepare the seasonal seafood by a season.
The fish that storekeeper oneself is particular about quality and stocks has a good reputation for high freshness.
There was not only all nice smell but also the sweetness and was very actually delicious when I ate.
③Crab innards rolled sushi
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It is unbearable one article for a crab enthusiast.
Crab innards are clogged up in the body of the big crab closely.
Crab innards are love-it-or-hate-it ingredients, but the affinity with liquor such as sake or the shochu is outstanding.
The person who wants to enjoy Japanese foods, please try it.
④tenmusu roll
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It is this Tenmusu roll that the crab innards seem to be difficult, and is recommended to a person called …
The Tenmusu roll is recommended to the prawns which raw fish is weak in with the rolled sushi which tempura was contained in.
The prawns wrapped in clothes of the tempura are chewy and are delicious so as to chew if I chew!
⑤Vegetable dish
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As I wanted to eat not only the fish but also the vegetables, I ordered fried bitter gourd.
It is basic dishes in Okinawa of Japan, but a bitter gourd seems to be cultivated in some areas in Hachijojima, and the local person makes it well in summer.
There is unique bitterness, but revives the body which was tired from summer heat.
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They were simple, but spicy tomato dishes which I used the tomato for entirely were satisfactory.
⑥Ceramic ware, deep-fried food
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An omelet is the thing which is indispensable to a Japanese dining table and lunch, but provides an omelet for adults using the island chili pepper from Hachijojima in this shop.
Genpachi Sendo nakameguro oyster
I ordered the fried oysters using the large drop of oyster from Hiroshima!
It was a texture and the taste that were unbearable for an oyster enthusiast!
How much was the total amount of money?
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In addition, the total was 10,520 yen (tax-included) as I ordered salad and soup, a drink.
As this is the total for two, it is about 5,000 yen per person.
I think that the person wanting to drink a lot of sake can enjoy it for 6,000 yen – around 7,000 yen enough!
Q & A
I answer a common question before visiting this shop from here.
①The order method?
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In this shop, I scan the QR cord of the menu with a smartphone and can order it by a mobile order system.
The processes from the choice of the menu to an order become simple and quick, and, by this system, an order process smoothens very much.
In other words, the communication in Japanese with the staff is minimized.
Even a person weak in Japanese and one hitting the language barrier during a trip can enjoy an order in peace.
As the details of dishes and a recommended menu are displayed when I scan QR cord, I can confirm a menu before an order slowly.
②What is written on a signboard?
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“Welcome!” it means in a dialect of Hachijojima “to do gravel”.
These warm words express the sincere welcome to a visitor.
As these words are words unfamiliar to only a Japanese living in Hachijojima, it may not be revealed by the Japanese living in other areas either.
Hachijojima is located to about 300km to the south from Tokyo and is original culture and a beautiful island with a custom.
For the word, “I do gravel”, warmth and the generosity of the people of the island are put.
A heart feels at ease when met by such a special words.
The source eight legendary wizards sinus values culture and a tradition of Hachijojima and offers a special experience to all coming people.
Please enter the shop in peace if you see the words of this welcome being posted in a shop.
Please spend a wonderful time while feeling wind of Hachijojima.
③What is the Shimazushi different from common sushi in?
The Shimazushi is a kind of sushi which developed in remote islands such as Japanese Hachijojima.
Unlike nigiri-zushi and the rolled sushi using the fresh fish, it is characterized by unique recipe and seasoning.
One of the big characteristics of the Shimazushi is to pickle a fish to soy sauce and vinegar.
This manufacturing method keeps the freshness of the fish and not only I draw taste, but also give a fish deep taste by pickling it and can enjoy heavy taste different from other sushi.
Another characteristic is specially made source and seasoning used for a fish.
For example, mustard and herb are used well and bring about a spicy flavor peculiar to Shimazushi.
By such an inventive idea, I can offer new discovery and surprise every mouthful with the Shimazushi.
The Shimazushi reflects local tradition and culture, and an original style is in each island.
This is because it is made to local ingredients and climate carefully.
On the source eight legendary wizards way, I provide this special Shimazushi in the best state by a fresh fish and the traditional recipe that selected carefully.
Even the first person can enjoy a heavy flavor and unique taste.
The one that wants to taste taste unlike the usual nigiri-zushi, please appreciate full-scale Shimazushi at this opportunity.
④What is Kusaya?
The Kusaya is special product fermented food of the Izu Islands origin of Japan.
I soak a fish in the unique fermentation liquid called the Kusaya stew and am dried food.
The Kusaya stew is the precious food which has been inherited from generation to generation that taste deepens whenever I pickle a fish.
The biggest characteristic of the Kusaya is the strong fragrance. I may feel it for a person eating for the first time unexpectedly, but there are many unique taste and deep people who are attracted to taste it when I begin to eat once.
You can enjoy a rich flavor to spread in a mouth when used to a fragrance.
The Kusaya is generally cooked using the fish such as a horse mackerel, mackerel, the flying fish.
After having pickled it to a Kusaya stew for a few days from several hours, I dry it.
By this process, a unique flavor soaks into a fish well.
Not only I just eat, but also the Kusaya which is traditional preservation food of Japan is popular as snacks of ochazuke and the liquor.
A lot of dishes which I made use of a flavor of the Kusaya in are used for dishes as seasoning giving depth.
⑤What kind of vegetable is the ashitaba?
ashitaba is a special vegetable growing in Japanese Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands.
There was this name so that it was said, “a new leaf comes out tomorrow even if I picked it up today” because it was fast-growing.
Nutritive value is high, and the Angelica keiskei is known because there is a unique flavor.
Even if the Angelica keiskei only looks at both the leaf and the stem with bright green, freshness is felt.
The taste is slightly bitter and seems to be slightly spicy.
Because this bitterness gives depth to dishes, it is used for various dishes.
The Angelica keiskei can often eat salad, a fry-up, stewed dishes, tempura raw.
It is popular ingredients with Japanese home-cooked meal and haute cuisine.
I provide tempura and the stewed Angelica keiskei in this shop, but tempura is recommended to the one that wants to eat by all means.
⑥Is there the English menu?
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There is the English menu in this shop, too.
As it is kind to a foreign tourist, I can enjoy delicious dishes without minding the language barrier.
When a table does not have an English menu, please ask the staff without reserve.
The staff brings an English menu with friendly immediately.
I can order even the dishes visiting it in detailed explanation and the recommended menu appearing for the first time from an English menu in peace.
It is explained the special product of Shimazushi in particular and Hachijojima in detail, and understanding to food culture in Japan deepens.
