Monday, January 24, 2011

Tokyo: Night at the (Takoyaki) Museum

We took a boat ride in to Odaiba from Asakusa and saw a most interesting poster for a museum - the Odaiba Takoyaki Museum. Honestly, how much history could takoyaki have that could warrant an entire floor dedicated to takoyaki?!

It was full of ridiculous props like these takoyaki balls setting sail on an adventure.


Just about the only serious thing on display in this cannot-make-it museum. Not that we were seriously looking for an educational experience!


But we were quite pleased to see that there were queues of people inside lining up for takoyaki. Now this was more our type of exhibit!


The event even had its own flyer. Wonder if it would have made it to the Museum Roundtable group in Sg.



Plenty of takoyaki stalls with different types of takoyaki for sale. It was absolutely packed, with every seat taken or reserved.


There were 5 different chains with stalls selling takoyaki at the eating area. Which to choose from? The one with the longest queue, of course!


We ordered a combo of 4 different styles - shio, negi, normal (ie. with bonito) and mentaiko. This was about 1000Y, if I don't recall wrongly.

The tartness of the negi (spring onion) balanced the richness of the mayonaise quite nicely.


The shio (salt) was interesting since I had never tried salty takoyaki before. Quite a refreshing change from the usual sweetish mayo.


I liked the mentaiko (cod roe) best, since I am a huge mentaiko fan. But I thought they could have been more generous with the mentaiko.
Finally, the standard takoyaki with mayo, sauce and bonito flakes. Although it was decent, this was almost an anticlimax after all the new hip flavours.



4th floor, Decks Odaiba

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