今日は、久しぶりに和食屋さんに行きました。シンガポールのように美味しい和食屋さんが近所にある環境ではないので、せっかくロンドンにいることですし。東京すき焼き亭、というお店で、たまたま滞在ホテルから歩いて7、8分のところにあって便利でした。

There aren’t any Japanese restaurants near where we live, unlike in Singapore, and we miss going to a Japanese restaurant, so we went to one tonight taking the opportunity of being in London. It’s called Tokyo Sukiyaki-tei and happened to be in the neighborhood of the hotel we are staying at, just 7-8 minutes on foot.

新型コロナウィルスが広まりつつあって怖いですね。菌を持っていても症状が出ない人も多いらしいですし、アジア圏から遠いとは言え、今や、海外旅行が日常化しているのでこちらでも安心は出来ませんよね。ロンドンは観光地ですし、気をつけようと思っていたのですが、このレストランに行ってみるとほとんどのお客さんがCの国の人でびっくりしました。(ここに住んでいる方達のようだったので、リスクは少ないとは思います。)イギリス人のグループは何組か見かけたものの、わたしたちがみる限り、今日は日本の方は見かけずでした。ここの情報はロンドンにお住まいの日本の方のブログからなのですが。

Coronavirus is spreading and even though we are far away from Asia these days that doesn’t make it much safer I feel, so we thought we should be a little careful to avoid to be in a large crowd of people from certain places but when we got to the restaurant it was full of people from China! As far as we could see the customers were almost all from China except a few British groups. They looked like they live here so hopefully not a risk. No Japanese that we could see. I found a review of this restaurant in a blog written by a Japanese lady, so I guess they do have Japanese customers as well.

すき焼きや焼肉やお寿司などの一品料理もたくさんありましたが、しゃぶしゃぶにしました。すき焼きも好きですが、お砂糖たっぷりですし、しゃぶしゃぶの方がお野菜も色々食べられて軽いので。ビーフは普通の和牛。上の和牛や神戸牛もメニューにありましたが、余り脂身が多いのは苦手なので、ちょうど良かったです。

They serve Sukiyaki, Shabu-shabu, Sushi and many other dishes but we decided to have Shabu-shabu. We like sukiyaki, too, it has a lot of sugar in and less variety of vegetables, Shabu-shabu is lighter. We chose ordinary Japanese beef. They had higher rank Japanese beef and also Kobe beef but we prefer less fatty meat. These were just right for us.

お肉は臭みなく、とても美味しかったです。たれは、ポン酢とごまだれと両方出てきます。タレの継ぎ足しはなく、追加オーダーなのは残念。

Beef wasn’t gamy at all, very tender and good. They give you both ponzu and sesame sauce, which is great, but don’t give you any more sauce when you use it up, you have to order and pay for extra, which isn’t great.

デザートは、夫は抹茶アイス、わたしは餅アイス。

For dessert my husband had Matcha ice cream and I had mochi ice cream.

写真は撮り忘れましたが、最初に枝豆をシェアしました。他に生ビールの小3つとで、115ポンド(16500円くらい)。イギリスに住み始めて、サヴォイ・グリルの次に高い食事でしたが、シンガポールドルで考えると(200ドル)安い！

I forgot to take a photo but we had Edamame to start with and also had 3 small draft beers; the bill was 115 pounds. The 2nd most expensive dinner we’ve had in England since we moved here, after the Savoy Grill, but in Singapore dollars it’s $200 and that seems very inexpensive, it probably would have been more like $600 in Singapore.