Not only beef and raw fish, chicken also has been often used in Japanese cooking for long years. We cook chicken in many ways, from raw as sashimi (!! very rare case) to fry, grill or minched dumpling. Yakitori (spitted chicken) is one of the most popular menu at cheap Izakaya restaurants, and the dish well matchs with a glass of beer.
Akira is also called Yakitori restaurant but their Yakitori is not like what we see at other restaurants. The casual restaurant in Marunouchi Brick Square (the newest commercial complex in the business ditrict) is specialized in traditional chicken dishes. Here we can find wide selections of chicken plates and different regions of chicken from legs, wings, skin, bone to heart! every parts we can eat... and they know the best way to enjoy the food.
Its main attraction is "grill yourself" style food. Fresh chicken meat, minched chiken dumpling (tsukune), vegetables are full on plates and all were grilled and eaten up by us!
Several bottles of seasoning are set on the table; salt, two types of soya source (sweet or dry), local pepper paste etc. We can select one depending on food and our favor. For grilled chicken, maybe salt is the best to taste the fresh, fine quality meat.
At the end of the nice dinner, we cannot miss a kind of traditional chicken food in Japan.
"Raw egg with rice" (卵かけご飯)
In Japan, we often have raw egg with rice. But at this restaurant, of course the home-like food is also someting special. The egg provided is "Versaille" brand from Kyushu region. (rarely available and must be expensive) It is very fresh and high quality one.
Put a few drops of soya sauce into the egg bowl, broke and mix it well. Then put the egg sauce on a bowl of rice. It could look like cheese risotto.
Anyway I recommend trying this in Japan, if you have never had raw egg
Restaurant name: AKira Marunouchi
Address: Marunouchi Brick Square B1 floor, Park Building, 2-6-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
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