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2015-04-04
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I'd always prefer Tenmasa over Ippoh if I were to have tempura in Tokyo, but visiting Tenmasa where we are is a bit of a trouble having to travel all the way to Macau, so Ippph is first on the list when convenience is a call.We were lucky, got to be the fill-ins for a cancelled booking and were able to secure 2 precious seats for lunch. Otherwise would have to wait for 2 months to get the dinner booking we originally desired. I was told on the phone by the chef who usually confirms all bookings
We were lucky, got to be the fill-ins for a cancelled booking and were able to secure 2 precious seats for lunch. Otherwise would have to wait for 2 months to get the dinner booking we originally desired. I was told on the phone by the chef who usually confirms all bookings himself that the omakase menu for lunch is the the same as dinner so what the heck, we're in!
With a capacity of only 8 seats around the tempura counter and a table for 4, serving just tempura, the food'd better be good. It IS good, well worth the wait and the price it charges.
Setting - the place is small but lots of attention is paid to details like the beautifully engraved exhaust hood and the particularly arranged set of servingware on an Ippoh mat.
Food - after the lettuce salad with dried seaweed and the onsen tamago served with mackerel soya jelly, we were set to net the freshest catch of the day straight from Tsukiji Market. We must have had 20 pieces of different kinds of seafood and vegetables, including different kinds of prawns, fishes, abalone, scallop, uni, squid, ginkgo, avocado, asparagus, maitake mushroom and more. All coated in an airy light batter that is briefly crunchy but juicy and tender inside. The chef delicately deep fried every single piece for each and every customer like performing an art, then carefully blotted off any extra oil and put on the netted plate in front of us and patiently explained what the piece was and how best to eat it, whether plain, with salt, with sauce or just a zest of lemon juice. Our meal should be finishing off with tempura prawn cake on rice in soup and dessert which was yuzu sorbet and fresh fruits, but in the end we were so full that we asked for the two to be skipped. However the chef insisted that we should try them because they are too good to be missed. We couldn't reject the enthusiastic chef and agreed to having just 1 rice in soup without the fritter and a dessert to be shared between the two of us. Both didn't let us down which brought our lunch at Ippoh to a complete and impressive ending.
Service - typical Japanese courtesy and servicing etiquette that are greatly appreciated.
Price - omakase lunch is priced at $1,100 per person which is well worth in my opinion.
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