Wakaya Tofu Restaurant
About an hour and a half way from Nagoya lies the city of Iga (Iga-shi) in Mie Prefecture. Wakaya is a famous restaurant in the city that has been serving tofu for over one hundred years. Yesterday, our school went on a field trip with visiting AFS foreign students to the city and had lunch at the restaurant. Our lunch was consist of a bowl of rice, condiment of pickle vegetables, a bowl of simple soup, okara, steam vegetables, and tofu. The tofu is placed on sticks and barbequed while being brushed with orange-miso sauce. Each lunch comes with 16 tofu sticks (served in yakitori style), which are displayed in a nice wooden container.
As a proud carnivore, a meal without meat is like a day without sunshine. But, this meal was rather healthy and flavorful. As flavorful as a tofu can get. The tofu, which is the center piece of the meal, taste is sweet and savory due to the orange-miso sauce. The other side dishes, such as rice, soup, etc., are meant to complement the tofu.
The whole lunch seem to have a lot of food but it was rather light for my American-size stomach. My WOW Factor: 7/10
Wakaya Restaurant
TEL: 0595(21)4068
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hey ROn!
i’ve been eating stinky tofu over here in china… but yours sounds much nicer 🙂 xx
By: Julie on December 13, 2009
at 12:56 pm
Hey Julie,
Stinky Tofu are delicious. It has major flavor compare to a lot of tofu dishes. I would eat stinky tofu with white rice or porridge. It’s been a while since I had stinky tofu… eat some for me.
By: ronnyt74 on December 14, 2009
at 9:01 am