Tourist visiting or ex-pat living here in Tokyo and sick of guides like Zagat on where to eat? If so, this blog is for you. Check where locals go to eat.
Kudzu Mochi is a desert or snack my mother use bring back for us, whenever she went back to see her parents in Tokyo. She would always purchase it from the shop which invented it 200 years ago. This shop is FUNABASHIYA at Kameido.
KUDZU MOCHI is a pudding like arrowroot cake. It does have much of a taste and you add Kinako (soybean flour) and Kuromitsu (Brown sugar syrup) on top. Its one of Tokyo's classical sweets, which goes perfect with green tea.
You can also take it out, which most people do.
Just like any traditional Japanese sweet shop, they serve ANMITSU, which is a made of small cubes of agar jell. It is a white translucent jelly made from red algae or seaweed.
You can add a scoop of ice cream to it, which is CREAM ANMITSU
or Shiratama (Rice floor dumplings), which is SHIRATAMA ANMITSU.
They also serve MAMEKANTEN (Agar jell, boiled red bean and brown sugar syrup),
YOSHINO MOCHI (Yoshino kudzu cake with sweet red bean paste).
If its your first time visiting Funabashiya, you must order Kudzu Mochi, nothing else. Its also close to Kameido Tenjin, but they do have a takeout only store in Hiroo as well.
FUNABASHIYA （in Japanese, 船橋屋） Address: 3-2-14 Kameido, Koto-ku, Tokyo (in Japanese, 東京都江東区亀戸3-2-14) Nearest train station: JR Kameido (11 min walk) Tel: 03-3681-2784 Reservations: No Website: http://www.funabashiya.co.jp/ (in Japanese only) English menu: None Credit Card: No Open: 9am-5pm (Takeout until 6pm) Closed: None
Prices: Kuzumochi 530 yen Tokoroten 480 yen Anmitsu 590 yen Cream Anmitsu 690 yen Shiratama Anmitsu 690 yen Fruits Anmitsu 690 yen Mitsumame 590 yen Cream Mitsumame 690 yen Shiratama Shiruko 690 yen Mame Kanten 590 yen Yoshino Mochi 530 yen Ice Cream 400 yen Coffee (Hot or Ice) 400 yen
Author:Tokyo Joe
Food, music, and sports is my princess.
Favorite food: Almost anything in Tokyo, Beef in Kobe, Kaiseki/Kappo in Kyoto, Seafood in Hokkaido & Northern Japan, Aranabe in Fukuoka, Udon in Kagawa, Korean in Korea, Thai in Bangkok, Cantonese in Hong Kong, Fishhead Curry & Chicken Rice in Singapore, French in Paris & Lyon, Italian in Napoli & Toscana, Spanish in Madrid & Basque, Brazilian in Sao Paolo, Cuban in Havana, Indian in Dehli, Mexican in Mexico City, and Junk food in States
Dislike: most of the food/restos in the UK, glass of milk, cooked chunks of liver, hoya, Korean dog stew, balut, cow & pork blood, bugs and funky Chinese dishes.
