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Was surfing the web and stumbled on the fact that Inose closed its doors at the end of April!

We enjoyed their shumai, their reishabu salad and beef stew during the pandemic and it was a nice walk for us too.

Oh and their gyoza was gyoza snob approved.

We are sad to see them close, apparently they’ve been in business since 1962.

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Yesterday Satoshi had an errand to run, so I went on a walk.

Found some "everyone's chairs" in front of a preschool.

Sad they gotta chain the chairs down so no one takes them.

Interesting liquor store front.

Conveyor belt sushi chain has a take out shop.

Tosamizuki (spike winter hazel)

Hakuren (yulan magnolia)

Hello...

Was able to pick up some Inose shumai for our dinner, they will be raising their prices in April.

Right now it is 450 yen (tax included) for 12 pieces, it will go up 50 yen...still a bargain.

The days are getting longer, the temperatures are getting warmer.

ps last night was the longest earthquake we have ever experienced, we are okay. 

Other areas lost power and water, thank you to everyone who checked on us.

saturday

Saturday we had breakfast at Columbia...it might not look like it but their portions are a bit small, dunno if we'd go back for breakfast but it was nice to check out.

Afterwards we walked towards the Tama river and stopped into Mickey, a bakery that apparently has been around for about 20 years.

We picked up some items for lunch...their ham and egg sandwich, egg sandwich, fish sandwich and keema curry pan.

The curry pan was disappointing not much filling, but the others were delicious...I'm sure we'll be back whenever we are nearby.

It was nice to be able to see Mount Fuji from the Tama river.

To cross over to Kanagawa you need to cross the Tama river, and the Keikyu and JR lines do just that.

There is a really low area underneath the Keikyu line that you can pass under, I shot a short video of it here.

From here we walked back home stopping at Zoshiki to find something for dinner.

We stumbled upon an izakaya, Miraku, selling their oden...earlier that morning I was watching an episode of "Cool Japan" and they were talking about oden.

I thought it was kismet when we stumbled upon some, so we picked up 2 servings for our dinner. (1 serving was only 300 yen (tax included))

It didn't quite match with red wine but it was definitely a change from our usual weekend pupu dinners.

Hope everyone has a good week.

Mickey

2-23-13 Tamagawa

Ota, Tokyo

Phone: 03.3758.467

Closed Mondays

Hours: 7:00-19:00

Miraku

2-16-13 Nakarokugo

Ota, Tokyo

Phone: 03.3732.0735

Open daily 17:00-21:00

inose

I saw somewhere that Inose sells their beef stew every Tuesday.

So, since I was in a rut as to what to eat/cook, we walked over to Zoshiki and went to check to see if Inose had their beef stew.

They did.

500 yen (tax included) for 1 serving.

I should've taken the photo before covering the whole bowl with gravy.

Underneath the gravy there is half a potato, some carrots and very tender beef.

I added some broccoli for color.

The beef stew is rich and is a demi-glace base.

I'm glad we got to try this and we'll be back to purchase this again.

inose

We've been wanting to try Inose's shumai ever since we saw it on a television show.

They only sell these on Wednesdays and have always been sold out by the time we've gone past the shop.

The wife of the owner always tells us, "if you come by 8:15, you might be able to buy some"...emphasis on "might"

We could always reserve some but with the weather as weird as it has been the day we do reserve some would probably rain cats and dogs...or something...

Today, we got lucky though...we walked over to Zoshiki, to see if Mizoguchi had taco rice...they didn't.

BUT...Inose had no line...they were not sold out and we were able to buy shumai!

These were delicious! super moist and flavorful...450 yen (tax included) was super cheap too.

No wonder most people buy more than one container.

I'm glad we tried these and will buy these again.

inose

Sunday, we checked out the Zoshiki area for lunch and dinner...

What caught our eye was fried shrimp from a butcher shop called Inose.

I bought a roll from Family Mart and made a sandwich.

Satoshi bought some rice and instant curry to make his fried shrimp curry lunch.

The fried shrimp was all shrimp, without spaces of only batter like some places.

We also purchased Inose's reishabu salad.

Reishabu is thinly sliced pork that is blanched and usually seen during summer.

The salad had lettuce, onion, cucumbers and the pork.

I added some shiso and okra.

The dressing that came with this salad was so good!

It was kind of like ponzu (citrus soy) but with (I think) some ginger in it.

I still have one more bottle, so I will use this soon.

Inose also makes shumai, which we want to try but need to reserve, so hopefully we'll be able to do so soon.

Inose

2-25-2 Nakarokugo

Ota, Tokyo

Phone: 03.3732.4062

Closed Fridays

Hours: 9:00-19:00

zoshiki

About 30 minutes walking from where we live is Zoshiki.

This area was recently featured on a television show, so we went to check it out.

Along the way we saw lots of hydrangeas.

After some checking online, this one is apparently called pineapple guava.

Loved the look of this retro building.
 

I picked up a doner kebab for lunch from Kolbe.

Lots of veggies and lots of meat this was worth the 600 yen (tax included).

We also stopped at Takahashi Shoten to try their doughnuts.

All are cake type.

We purchased cocoa glazed, goma (sesame) and beniimo (purple sweet potato).

Bummer the goma and beniimo were so dry!

The glazed was definitely the way to go...so moist!

There are more shops we want to check out in this area, so we'll be back.

Kolbe

2-21-9 Nakarokugo

Ota, Tokyo

Phone: 080.5401.5434

Closed Tuesdays

Hours: 11:00-14:00 (lunch), 16:00-18:00 (dinner)

Takahashi Shoten

1-40-11 Nakarokugo

Ota, Tokyo

Phone: 03.3734.4626

Closed Sundays

Hours: 10:00-19:00