April 24, 2005
Some Restaurant in Enoshima
Well, I fixed up my bike so it was more Japan friendly (ie. can handle FREAKIN' SCARY BIKING CONDITIONS) and rode out to Enoshima today. By the time I got there I was really friggin' hungry but when I got to Tobbicho とびっちょ there was a huge wating list. Just to give you an idea... I wrote my name on the bottom half of waiting list page number 12, and they were still reading off of page 10. After waiting for 20 minutes, they were still on page 10, even though half the people on the list had given up and gone somewhere else. That restaurant was being slammed!
I like little white fishies as much as the next person, but I was just TOO tengo hambre to wait. So, I biked further away from the crowded area of the island (read: almost all of the island) and found some restaurant tucked away between a marina and a parking lot. As I approached, a saliva enducing clam miso soup smell wafted up and I decided all at once that I had to go in.
How could it smell so good and be so mediocre? Wonders never cease. I ordered a clam rice bowl and some clam miso. Neither tasted very much like the delicious clam smells that had enticed me to duck into the restaurant. The rice bowl was basically a teeny bowl of rice with three rubbery clams made into a runny omlette thing and sauce. Mediocre! Then I thought, "Well, maybe that was just an off dish... I think the miso might be good." Talk about bland. It was just like regular miso soup with three clams in it. Not so great. Oh well, I didn't end up spending more than I would have spent at Tobbicho, so at least I don't have to be steamed about that. I really get mad when I feel like I'm getting overcharged for mediocre or bad food. Beware the wrath of the Emarrificster who has been given bad food for too much money!
So, yeah, that's why I didn't even bother to pick up a card because I don't need to recommend it to y'all.
Posted by Emarrific at 10:12 PM | Comments (0)
April 01, 2005
とびっちょ！
Little white fish that are about one centimeter long are swimming in front of my eyes, like a cloud of white manna. No, I didn't do any drugs, unless eating lots of fish counts. (Some people swear sushi gives them a high.) No, I went to Tobbicho restaurant on Enoshima island where the little white fish (called shirasu in Japanese) are featured in almost everything, including salads, rice dishes, noodles, sashimi, tofu, and even ICE CREAM and SAKE! I kid you not.
I actually tried the shirasu ice cream and it wasn't bad. It was basically a nice vanilla bean ice cream with some chewy stuff in it (which happened to be little dried fishies.) Yeah, gag all you want, you heathens who don't like natto (fermented soy beans either. You're dammed anyways.
I also had 釜あげしらす丼 (steamed shirasu rice bowl) that came with lots of healhty and yummy (yes the two can go together you snivelling heathens) vegetables. I also tried fresh-fresh straight off the tidepools seaweed, which was really quite a different experience from your general joe-shmoe seaweed. It was really crunchy and chewy at the same time, yet robust in a way most seaweeds aren't. Mmm... I'm getting hungy.
The only big problem is the line. Unless you go on a non-busy day (maybe a week day?) you will have to wait a long time to get in! I don't know if it was featured in TV lately, or they just have good word of mouth. But definetely worth a go if you don't have issues with little tiny white fish!
Posted by Emarrific at 09:51 PM | Comments (2)