Ginpei in Ginza is a Japanese restaurant that came up from Osaka. Dinner is a rather pricey full course, but lunch is cheap and generous, which has made it famous among the office workers around here.
You get to pick the fish you’ll eat today yourself.
Choose a fish, tell them how you want it cooked, and that’s how it comes out. The cooking is pretty skilled, but the fish wasn’t all that fresh. Well, it’s not winter, so I guess it can’t be helped.
Tofu
Clean and mild. A big portion, and high quality too.
Sesame
It’s a set.
Soy sauce
For 1,500 yen, you have to say this is a good spread.
Tempura
The ingredients are a bit ordinary.
Tororo soba
It’s all proper Japanese food, but nothing on the menu really stands out.
The sea bream ara-daki (simmered head and collar) I ordered
Nicely cooked, but the fish wasn’t fatty, so it wasn’t especially tasty.
Mebaru, I think it was…
This one was nicely cooked too.
Rice
I’d heard the rice is served freshly cooked, but it didn’t taste particularly great. Maybe it was just this time. It’s good value, and judging from other people’s reviews it seems like a tasty place, but when I ate there I couldn’t find anything special. A bit of a shame, but some days are like that.
Gotta have dessert. We headed straight to Toraya.
Barley tea
It was a hot day, so it tasted even better.
Strawberry shaved ice
Japanese shaved ice is a bit different from Korean bingsu. The jelly was good, the strawberries were good, and apart from the slightly steep price it’s excellent. With the heat I end up eating shaved ice a lot, and I think I’ll be craving this one often.