kushi-age

On one of our first nights in Tokyo our friends took us to Hantei, a kushi-age restaurant in the rather nice old Nezu area (not so far from the University of Tokyo campus where the conference we presented at was taking place). Whitebait wasn't aware of kushi (skewer)-age (deep fry) food before so the whole event was a delightful surprise. Particulary as the restaurant itself is build around a beautiful old stone kura (storehouse), an essential technology for achieving the minimalist household aesthetic. As we left they even gave us some nice omiyage in the form of a book of postcards (including nice sketches) of the building.