Reasonable Tempura in Saga

Enjoying Japanese food is one of the highlights of visiting Japan, isn't it?

Nakamura（那かむら）in the Yume Town Saga shopping mall is perfect for those who want to enjoy tempura reasonably.

To make customers enjoy crunchy tempura, the restaurant serves each tempura every time it is deep fried. Menus are written in both English and Japanese. I recommend Variety Set B, 896 yen tax included.

While waiting for tempura, customers can pick pickled radish and Japanese apricot flavored enoki mushroom from containers on the table.

Rice, sauce, miso soup, tea and a rectangle plate are on the tray. On the plate, there are pink rock salt, lemon flavored salt to eat with tempuras, along with grated radish and ginger to put into the sauce. Chopsticks are in a wooden box on the table. Free refills on rice.

Dipping tempura in the sauce is a common way to eat but with salt is also delicious.

When I ate there, they served tempuras in this order:
shrimp, fish, chicken, shiitake mushroom, eggplant, squid, pumpkin. The picture showed the mushroom and eggplant.

If you can't eat any of the above, it is best to ask the restaurant.
I heard shrimp can be exchanged for any tempura in the set such as chicken or vegetables because it is the most expensive. Chicken can be exchanged only for vegetables. This is good news for vegetarians, I suppose.

The shopping mall, accessible by bus from Saga Station, has world famous MUJI and UNIQLO.
What's more, just looking around in Loft and Francfranc shops are also fun because they offer various kinds of goods from bento boxes to cute massage cushions.

Tiger Air Taiwan, a Taiwanese LCC, has already started a flight from Taiwan to Saga and is expected to have regular flights in the fiscal year 2017.

I hope more visitors from overseas will enjoy Saga, a compact city to enjoy eating and shopping:)

*The next blog post will be in two weeks due to national holidays next week. Thank you for reading!