Eel-topped takoyaki is delicious in any season, but here’s why now is the best time to try it

You’ve heard of takoyaki, octopus items in doughy balls of batter grilled on a scorching plate, however have you ever heard of Unagi Takoyaki? This model of “octopus balls” is completely distinctive to Tsukiji Gindaco, a takoyaki chain restaurant, and comes with eel in addition to octopus. However when you had been to ask our Japanese-language reporter Yuichiro Wasai what it tastes like, he’d be hard-pressed to inform you something past “takoyaki and eel”.

Nonetheless, he’d ensure you perceive how scrumptious it’s. It might simply be “takoyaki and eel”, however with two such strong components, there’s no manner it wouldn’t be good. The one downside is that not all Tsukiji Gindaco branches serve it–the truth is, it’s a dish unique to only one department.

The official identify of the dish is Unatama Takoyaki, combining the phrase for eel (unagi) and ball (tama), and it comes as a plate of six for 800 yen. It’s made with Tsukiji Gindaco’s signature crispy batter and dressed with takoyaki sauce, inexperienced onions, thin-cut omelet strips, kabayaki eel (eel broiled with soy sauce), and shredded seaweed. The eel isn’t baked into the takoyaki, however moderately loaded on high.

▼ It’s laborious to see, however the finish of a bit of eel is poking out right here the place the purple arrow is pointing.

You don’t get a full-length eel filet such as you would with an unagi bowl, nevertheless it does include a number of smaller items. Although it isn’t a number of eel, it’s the right quantity to stability out the takoyaki and provides the dish a way of unity. Bigger sizes could be an excessive amount of.

As for the place Yuichiro discovered a Tsukiji Gindaco that sells Unatama Takoyaki, it was…

Inside Meiji Jingu baseball stadium, in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Sure, this baseball stadium meals stall is the one Tsukiji Gindaco the place you should purchase Unatama Takoyaki (similar to the Jingu Stadium department of Freshness Burger was the one place you possibly can get the Residence Run Burger).

Now’s one of the best time to attempt it, too, within the temperate month of Might. With baseball season below manner, what higher time to take pleasure in takoyaki with a aspect of eel than whereas supporting your favourite staff at a sport on a cool spring day? The solar normally isn’t as sturdy, and the temperature is usually neither too scorching nor too chilly. It makes for the right climate – and the right setting – to make your extraordinary Unatama Takoyaki style 5 instances higher.

▼ Additionally they produce other distinctive takoyaki dishes, just like the Inexperienced Onion & Mayonnaise cherished by Tokyo Swallows participant Naomichi Nishiura (referred to as Negi Mayo Nishiura-jan) and the Luxurious Spicy Cod Roe Cheese (referred to as the Zeitaku Cheese Mentaiko) primarily based on Swallows infielder Hideki Nagaoka.

In case you’re , undoubtedly give it a style.

Restaurant info

Tsukiji Gindaco (Tokyo Stadium Department) / 築地銀だこ（TOKYO STADIUM店）

Deal with: Shinjuku-ku Kasumigaoka-machi 3-1 Meiji Jingu Stadium Outfield Space (close to Gate 1)

東京都新宿区霞ヶ丘町3-1明治神宮野球場 外野エリア（1GATE付近）

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