夏休みに妻の実家へも行きました。一緒に田楽座 わかやという豆腐田楽のお店へランチへ、とっても人気のお店です。
We visited my spouse's hometown to see father and mother-in-law on the summer vacation. We went to WAKAYA with my spouse's family that is the restaurant of tofu dengaku. Tofu dengaku is the grilled tofu with red miso sauce that is the local food in Iga area, Mie prefecture. I was here once more than 20 years ago with my spouse's family too. By the way, this restaurant has been really popular and you can't make a reservation for lunch except of ordering gorgeous course meals. I got the first to wait outside 20 minutes before from its open time.
かなり長い歴史を持つお店です。建物や内装からも歴史を感じます。20年以上前にも妻の家族と来たことがあり、今回2度目の訪問となります。
The architecture and interior look traditional and old. I am not sure but according to what the father-in-law said, this restaurant has very long history. I was guided to the Japanese style room called Zashiki which requires to sit down on the floor. Father-in-law has a problem on his knee and hip joints and hard to sit down on the floor. It was my mistake, I should have requested a western style room with chairs for father-in-law.
AセットとBセットが基本です。
A set meal and B set meal are the standard and recommendation. A set was 2,000 yen and B set was 1,400 yen at this time. They have tofu-based dishes and gorgeous set meals.
セットとは別で注文した湯葉刺し。わさびじゃなくて生姜なのが興味深いです。
We ordered Yuba, a kind of tofu skin. It was good but not special. I was surprised that condiment was grated ginger. I am pretty sure that the standard condiment for yuba is wasabi. It was interesting.
Aセットはこんな感じ。英語から書いているのでそれを日本語でも書くのが面倒くさいんですよ。。。
The A set meal are rice, Japanese clear soy sauce soup, stewed vegetables, okara (soy pulp), Japanese pickles and tofu dengaku. Tofu dengaku is served on the traditional wooden dish. According to the information on the internet, they make even tofu by themselves and grilled it for long time on weak charcoal flame.
お店のおススメの食べ方は竹串から豆腐田楽を抜いてご飯にダイブ！赤味噌の味がしっかりしているのでお米と合います。自家製豆腐をそのまま食べて大豆の味も味わいたいなあ。ごちそうさまでした。
They recommends this kind of way to eat tofu dengaku, put tofu dengaku on rice after put the bamboo skewers out. The tofu dengaku has strong taste of red miso sauce and is good for rice. I would like to try the tofu as it is.
良い一日を。
Thank you for reading. Have a nice day.