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Edomae Tempura is a signature dish of Japan; we have verified places to eat it in Tokyo. Start with where to eat Edomae Tempura in Tokyo.
Tokyo's tempura is featherlight battered seafood and seasonal vegetables fried in sesame-blended oil at high heat: served piece-by-piece across a counter, dipped in dashi-radish tentsuyu sauce, finished with salt.
Tempura entered Edo from Portuguese missionaries in the 1500s, but the city refined the form through the 18th and 19th centuries into a fast street-cart food. Edomae tempura is distinct from the Osaka style: a thinner, paler batter, sesame oil predominant in the fry oil, and a focus on tide-fresh shrimp and small whitefish from Tokyo Bay. Tenpura Kondo and Tenmasa established the modern counter format in the late 20th century. The order at a top counter is mostly fixed: kuruma-ebi (kuruma prawn), sayori (halfbeak), kisu (sand whiting), then seasonal vegetables, finishing with tendon (tempura over rice) or tencha (tempura over tea-soaked rice).
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Where to eat Edomae Tempura in Tokyo: the editor picks
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