金曜日の夜はブロ友さんとの飲み会でした。それに関してはまた別途書きます。そんな飲み会の翌日ですが元気に出かけますよ。だって
土曜日は路麺の日
板橋駅に来ました。
Good day.
I drank a lot on the day before but I went out to do Romen activity. I am supposed to follow "Saturdays are Romen Days" campaign. I got off at JR Itabashi Station.
I drank with blog friends last FriYay night, by the way. It was fun night. Thank you so much. I am going to post about the party tomorrow.
板橋宿
このあたりは路麺が多いので何度か歩いています。
I walked through Itabashi-shuku bound for Itabashi ward office. I have walked here several times because there are some good Romens in this area, Soba Tani and Ikechi.
昔の人は歩いて京都まで行ってたんだもんなあ。ここ板橋宿は中山道の一番目の宿場町だったようです。
Itabashi-shuku was the first accomodation place on Nakasendo road from Nipponbashi to Northward. This was one of the major 4 accomodation places in Edo era, others were Shinagawa-shuku on Tokaido road, Senju-shuku on Nikko-kaido road, and Naitoshin-shuku on Koshu-kaido road. Time would had gone so slowly in the past.
古めいたお店も沢山あります。
There were many old-fashioned shops on the Itabashi-shuku road. I was curious of the liquor store but I didn't enter because I didn't want to bring heavy sake to my apartment.
テクテク
板橋区役所前駅に着きました。
I got to Tokyo Metro Itabashikuyakushomae Station.
えんば、今年オープンしたばかりの路麺です。坂崎さんの文春オンラインの記事で知りました。
This is ENBA. This Romen was opened just this year. I got to know this from the article of Bunshun Online written by Sakazaki-san and Facebook post by N-senpai.
ENBA is a old word that means a dragonfly.
天ぷらの種類が豊富です！
げそ天、モロヘイヤ天、エリンギ天、レンコン天、みょうが天、ジャンボかき揚げ、まいたけ天、紅生姜天、イカ天、ちくわ天、コロッケ、さつまいも天、薩摩とろナス天、おかひじき天、など。
They had various types of tempura for topping. Geso-ten, jumbo kakiage, sweet potato tempura, maitake mushroom tempura, Satsuma melty eggplant tempura, croquetta, chikuwa fish cake tempura, squid tempura, red ginger tempura, myoga tempura (I love myoga, I should have ordered this too), lotus root tempura, perilla tempura, eringi mushroom tempura, morokheiya tempura, and okahijiki tempura, and more.
ちょっと空調に難ありですね。暑かったです💦
It was too much hot inside although there was an air conditioner. I sweated a lot.
ゲソリンは足りていたので、おかひじき天そばにしました。
I ordered hot soba noodles with okahijiki tempura topping because I wanted to have from Sakazaki-san's article and N Senpai's Facebook post. And my Gesoline meter was not empty, I ate gesoten soba noodles at Uma Soba last weekend.
It was 480 yen. It was cheaper for its quality.
麺は製麺所の生麺ロット茹で、って感じですね。美味しくて麺量も多いです。
I am unsure but I felt the soba noodle would be factory made raw noodle and they boiled a bunch of raw soba noodles at the same time and kept and re-boiled just after an order. The taste was good and the amount was also enough.
おかひじき、海藻ではなく野草ですね、の天ぷらです。食感も味も美味しいです。
The okahijiki tempura was thick and texture and taste were good. Okahijiki is not seaweed, is a kind of wild grass and recently farmed.
お汁もとっても美味しかったです。日本料理の料理長をしていたオーナーのこだわりが詰まって良そうです。醤油は卑弥呼のやまとしょうゆ、みりんは本みりん九重。とっても美味しかったです。ごちそうさま。
The soup was also very good with balanced taste. According to Sakazaki-san's article, the owner was a principal chef in a major Japanese food restaurant. The recipe of the soup would be his special. There were bottles of soy sauce and mirin sweet sake. The brand of soy sauce is Himiko Soy Sauce from Kumamoto, and Mirin is Kokonoe
genuine Mirin from Aich. It is interesting that two main seasonings are from other prefecture, not Kanto region. And more interesting thing is that Himiko Soy Sauce uses various seasonings and sugar in their soy sauce, by particular way in Kyushu region.
さあ、ろかタワー散歩です。仲宿。
Let me start Roka Tower Sampo.
I walked through Naka-juku road.
あ、暑い💦💦
It was too hot...
イスラム食品店かな？
This is REEHAN FOOD STORE. I am not sure but Reehan might be a name of this shop owner. This might be a food and grocery store of Arab Emirates.
野菜とか売ってるお店、中は散らかってますし、大したものは売っていません。なぜ商売を続けられるんだろう？
This is Kimura, a grocery store. I am wondering why this kind of outdated old store can continue its business. The inside was dirty and mess, and they didn't have enough groceries.
懐かしい風景
This terminated Tobacco Store made me feel nostalgic.
このお店に至っては何のお店か分かりません。でも開いてる。
I didn't know what kind of store this was. There was a staff inside and opened. Why can they continue the store.
川を見たら立ち止まります。
I always stop by when I find a river, pond, lake and ocean. I truly want to go bass fishing again.
火の見櫓かな？
This tower would be Hinomi-Yagura that means observational tower for a fire accident in Edo era.
縁切り榎。もし別れたいなら是非どうぞ（笑）
This is a famous place there, Enkiri Enoki. It seems a power spot that you could break out a relationship with your partner.
良い週末を～
Thank you for reading. Have a nice weekend. I have to work today at home for preparing meetings this week.