One day in July, when I was walking in Shinjuku, I found the word "Cold Tendon with a bowl". I just stopped.


This is the Kushi Tempura shop "Dandanya". It is a popular shop where you can line up outside at lunch time. At Dandanya, "Original Cold Tendon" is offered as a limited summer menu.

● What is the original chilled tendon?

The original chilled tendon is a bowl of freshly fried tempura that you can enjoy with cold "dashi jelly" and dashi soup. It comes with miso soup and pickles, and the price is 950 yen (tax included).


When you sit at the counter and place an order, the tempura will be fried with a noise in front of you. Just because it's "chilled" doesn't mean that the tempura is cold, but it provides a hot fried dish.

A few minutes to wait while being intrigued by the fragrant scent that reaches your nose at the speed of a second. Shrimp, okra, eggplant, sillaginidae, and squid tempura are piled up on top of rice in a shallow bowl that is placed with a pot of cold soup stock. By the way, rice is "cold rice". It's cold.



And the one that shines next to the tempura is the plump soup stock jelly . Freshly fried tempura is first tasted with this so that the batter does not become soft.


Freshly fried tempura that is crispy and fragrant. Crispy shrimp, crispy squid, fluffy juicy eggplant ... All the tempura is insanely delicious, but the one that was especially delicious was sillaginidae. When you bite into it, the plump body inside crumbles and the greasy sweetness spreads softly.


In addition, the rice is filled with finely chopped Japanese ginger, and the crispy texture and bitterness create a refreshing sensation in the mouth.

Finally, sprinkle the cold soup stock and squeeze it in like cold soup to finish. If it's hot and you have no appetite, you may want to eat a generous amount of soup stock.

Dandanya is so popular that it fills up before 12:00 on weekdays, so if you want to enter without lining up, it might be a good idea to visit at the same time as the opening time!