wakita

Satoshi's classmate, A, lives in this area. 

If you've been reading our blog, you might remember that he used to send us boxes of apples.

A and his wife picked us up and took us to Wakita for dinner.

There were all sorts of items that were unique to Nagano/Shinshu

The tsukune (chicken meat balls) were mixed with botan kosho, a fiery pepper...mouth.on.fire!

Next to it is an enoki flower...kinda similar to those awesome blossoms (deep fried onion)...this is a special type of enoki that is coated with karaage mix and deep fried...I was amazed it tasted just like chicken!

In front of that is a bowl with agedashi tofu topped with a slurry of assorted mushrooms

And to the right of that is bairing (a type of eringi) that was sandwiched with nori and mentaiko then fried

And then we tried the tsuke yaki soba...dip the noodles into the worchestershire sauce and mayo

B-kyu gurume! so ono

It was nice spending time with A and his wife. 

We hope to see them in Tokyo the next time they visit their daughter.

Thanks for today A!

Wakita

1-10-4 Central

Nakano, Nagano

Closed Mondays

Hours: 17:30-22:00