Tempura Restaurant "Tenkin" in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka： 静岡県、浜松市、天錦天ぷら屋

There's an amazing tiny hole-in-the-wall tempura restaurant in Hamamatsu in a back alley somewhere near the downtown area, called Tenkin. It's only open for lunch from 11am-1:30pm and a line forms out the door shortly after the place opens. There's enough counter seating for about 10 people max and the food is delicious! The owner/chef is famous in the local area for dipping his fingers into the hot, boiling oil, which made me cringe, and the speed at which he works keeps you on the edge. No real menu, just a 1000 yen bowl of tendon and a cup of miso soup. (Price increases to 2000 yen at dinner time for more food.) We had egg yolk tempura, seaweed tempura and shrimp wrapped in seaweed tempura as special treats in our bowl, aside from the usual vegetables, fish, etc. You kind of feel pressured to eat fast, but I highly recommend this restaurant! Highly entertaining and a mom-and-pop-shop taste of traditional Japan that is hard to come by thesedays. ^^

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