Tendon Tenya(天丼てんや), Shinjuku, Tokyo [Fast food of Japan]

Tempura(てんぷら 天麩羅) is very famous Japanese food in the world as the Sushi. This style of food is originated in Portugal. The idea and technique of the flying food with the oil were come with the gun on 1542. The flied food had started to develop in the island of Japan.

Tempura in Japan has the lovely characters as crispy, marriage with oil, nice smell or nice colour. The green vegetable or shrimp will get the fresh colour in themselves.

 

The Tendon Tenya(天丼てんや) is very popular Ten-don restaurant in Japan. Ten-don(天丼 てんどん) is some Tempuras topped on the rice bowl and dropped soy sauce based sauce (たれ Tare) till sinking into the bottom rice. The topped Tempura has various ingredients as shrimp, mushrooms, vegetables, sometimes combined ingredients called as Kakiage(かき揚げ).

 

The Tempura is crispy and the sauce and rice is very nice marriage. All things are very reasonable at this chain restaurant. One bowl of Ten-don costs around five USD.

 

 

The mascot character of Tenya