tenmi

There was a small shop that used to serve tempura called Tenmi, which I’d had on my “to try” list.

Then the pandemic hit and they changed what they serve.

They now do shinasoba (literally chinese noodles), or what most of the world calls “ramen”.

Shinasoba usually refers to a shoyu based bowl of noodles.

Satoshi tried their shio (salt) soba...1100 yen (tax included), which looked like it was chicken stock based.

It looked like it was topped with menma, kamaboko, komatsuna, ajitama, pork char siu and chicken char siu.

This came with some of their housemade yuzu kosho too

He said he enjoyed this, he should, he drank all the soup…eep

I ordered their niku maze soba...900 yen (tax included)

I was disappointed that the menma (bamboo shoot) and komatsuna (mustard greens) were cold.

At least the kakuni (braised pork) was heated and tender.

They let you change up the flavors by adding vinegar, soy sauce or their special chili oil.

And at the end they give you some rice (my photos uploaded wonky) to eat up the pork

Pet peeve: restaurants that wash their cups for water with the eggy dishes...blah makes everything smell like egg.

Dunno if we'll be back, but I'm glad we tried this shop.

Tenmi

7-32-3 Nishikamata, Maison Astoria 1F

Ota, Tokyo

Closed: n/a

Hours: n/a