"Shirunashi Tantanmen" that you can see here and there these days. The popular style is to sprinkle plenty of spice, Hua Jiao, which has a tingling tongue. The Tsukemen Mita Noodle Factory has also started offering it as a limited-time menu, so I ate it for lunch.

The selling price is 880 yen (tax included, same below), which is higher than ordinary tsukemen. You can choose the amount of Chinese pepper in 4 steps from 0 to 3. I like spicy foods, but I'm not so good at spicy foods, so I choose 1 sparingly. It is recommended that you put the rice in the bowl later, "wari rice" (60 yen, lunch time 50 yen), but for the time being, it's okay to use it separately.

Noodles, thick!

After waiting for a while, the noodles that came out were the soupless Tantanmen itself, but the noodles were thick. I was a little surprised because most of the soupless Tantanmen I had eaten were thin noodles.

It seems that it is normal to mix well before eating, but I'm worried about thick noodles, so first take a bite. It's chewy and the sauce is thickened, so it's surprisingly well entwined. There may be some ingenuity only in the main chain of tsukemen.

And it's already spicy. Instead of leaving a lingering aftertaste, it feels tingling before the tongue touches it, giving it a sizzling front taste. I'm glad I specified a modest amount of pepper, but I started mixing again.

Even if the amount of Chinese pepper is "1", it is spicy

Put chopsticks many times so that the sauce on the bottom of the bowl is entwined, and finally eat when you think that the top and bottom are even. After all it is quite spicy. Sichuan pepper has a numbing exhilaration that is different from the spiciness of pepper, but it also makes the body warm.

The chewy noodles are accented with the crispy texture of the mizuna that was on the table. The crunchy and crispy texture of the nuts that sometimes fits is also fun. I wonder if the flavor of the sauce is soy sauce (Jan), and the Chinese-style seasoning has a slight habit, so I may choose a person, but I like it.

By the time I finished eating the noodles, there wasn't much sauce left. The Mita Noodle Factory also has a "wari soup" for you to add to the sauce, but because it has a good seafood flavor, it is not always suitable for soupless tantanmen, which has a strong meat taste. If you want to enjoy the sauce to the end, we recommend split rice or a large serving of noodles.