East Japan’s best food truck? Eating crepes from the winner of the Kanto Kitchen Car Championship

When judging meals versus one another in a style check, it may be onerous to select a winner in case you’re not consuming them inside a short while of each other. So when foodies within the city of Ora, Gunma Prefecture, wished to know which meals truck has the best-tasting meals in all of Kanto (jap Japan), they determined to arrange a face to face competitors.

They known as it the 1st Kanto Kitchen Automobile Championship. Held final October, it was open to any “kitchen automobile” (as Japan calls meals vans) that operates within the Kanto space and thought it might declare the title. A complete of 18 vans confirmed up, with the winner determined by ballots forged by attendees who confirmed as much as eat the vans’ meals.

When the ballots had been counted, the winner was crepe truck Shironohachi.

As a cell eatery, Shironohachi’s location varies relying on the date. On some it parks and units up store on the streets of Tokyo, however the almost definitely place to search out it’s in Chiba Prefecture, Tokyo’s neighbor to the east. As luck would have it, Chiba can be the place our reporter Kouhey lives, and he was comfortable to volunteer to go to, and eat at, what the Kanto Kitchen Automobile Championship voters selected as east Japan’s number-one meals truck.

On the day of Kouhey’s go to, Shironohachi was going to be working in a car parking zone about 5 minutes on foot from Kashiwa Tanaka Station on the Tsukuba Specific Line, in Kashiwa Metropolis. In line with their web site, they weren’t opening till 1 p.m., and by the point the truck’s shutter raised, there was already a handful of individuals ready.

▼ The truck proudly shows its award certificates from the Kanto Kitchen Automobile Championship.

You order by filling out an order sheet, with the primary choice it’s essential make being the type of crepe batter you need. The matcha crepe was tempting, however after asking the proprietor for his advice, Kouhey selected the 400-yen “white crepe,” which is Shironohachi’s flagship merchandise. Further substances are 20 yen every, and, once more following the chef’s recommendations, Kouhey added whipped cream, condensed milk, and strawberries.

▼ Kouhey’s order sheet:

白: white crepe

しろ: whipped cream

練乳: condensed milk

いちご: strawberries

Kouyhey handed in his order sheet, and after a brief wait, he had his crepe.

It was lovely to have a look at, and Kouhey admired it the entire manner throughout his quick stroll to a close-by park, the place he sat himself down on a bench to style check it.

The white crepe definitely lives as much as its title. Subsequent to the colourful vermillion strawberry, the dough seemed as white as freshly fallen snow.

Kouhey went in for a chew, and it was amazingly scrumptious! Not solely does the dough look completely different kind an atypical crepe’s its texture is completely different too. It’s delectably comfortable and chewy, with an additional little bit of tender stretchiness. Nonetheless, it’s not noticeably thicker than a traditional crepe, so it retains an ideal ratio between dough and cream.

The strawberries had been nice too, and whereas at first look it seemed like there was simply the one fairly piece of fruit on the prime, there have been further strawberry items additional down contained in the crepe too.

Actually, although, it’s the dough and the cream which might be the celebs of the present right here. They’re so scrumptious that the crepe would nonetheless be irresistible even with none fruit filling.

If Kouyhey has any grievance, it’s that he would have favored the crepe to be a bit greater. Actually, although, it’s onerous to say if that’s as a result of the crepe itself is definitely on the compact dimension, or if it’s so scrumptious that regardless of how massive they made it, he’d have been left wanting a number of extra bites even after consuming the entire thing.

After consuming there, Kouhey is satisfied that Shironohachi deserves its Kanto Kitchen Automobile Championship win, and in case you’re trying to strive it for your self, the truck’s upcoming location schedule will be discovered on its web site right here.

Associated: Shironohachi web site

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