A note on the words: horohoro meat refers to meat braised until it falls apart at the touch of chopsticks, glazed in a sweet-savory sauce reminiscent of kakuni (braised pork belly). Tanuki soba is buckwheat noodles topped with crunchy tempura flakes, onsen tamago is a slow-cooked egg with a custardy yolk, and karashi is pungent Japanese yellow mustard.
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Nadai Fuji Soba Akasaka ten on Tabelog (English) — opening hours, payment details and the Japanese address are kept up to date there, not here.
Hello, this is Hangover Meshi. You might wonder just how many times I can keep going here, but apparently there is a menu item exclusive to this Akasaka shop! Well, if I had known that from the beginning, I would have just ordered it and called it a day. But I had not tried it, and once you find out about something like that, you simply have to go. Besides, there really are not that many places open for breakfast around here, so my visits inevitably overlap. Someone please tell me a spot where you can get a delicious breakfast around Akasaka!
So off I went to my usual Fuji Soba. This is already my third visit since it opened. Man, I really go there a lot…
Horohoro meat soba — 680 yen
This is it — apparently exclusive to the Akasaka branch. My heart was naturally set on hot soba, but walking outside was so sweltering that I decided to go with cold soba instead. Still, with the cold version there is this sneaking feeling that it is just tanuki soba topped with meat, but oh well. Thinking an onsen tamago (slow-cooked egg) would be nice to have too, I added one. And then thinking it could use a few more green onions, I added those as well.
810 yen… It ended up getting pretty expensive, ha.
Well, after a short while, my number was called.
Oho, that meat really is huge!
Karashi mustard instead of wasabi! Aw, come on, keep wasabi out for us too.
At this point, I will just dump in the extra green onions.
Oh, now that looks impressive.
First, let us try the meat. Taking a bite, it just falls apart. True to its name of “horohoro” meat, it really does fall apart tenderly. Almost like it was done in a pressure cooker, perhaps. A sweet sauce overflows and floods the palate. Dipping it into the karashi mustard, it is delicious. Up to this point, it feels like kakuni, braised pork belly. Then, breaking open the onsen tamago and coating the meat in egg yolk, that too is delicious. Though, how should I put it — while it would surely work in hot broth, whether it truly suits cold soba is a harder question, ha. I tried eating the soba with karashi, and it is not bad at all. Still, I really do want wasabi…
So all in all, while 810 yen feels a bit pricey, the soba itself was delicious. Even acknowledging how tasty it was, though, I started to feel that the real winner would be serving the meat, egg, and mustard on a separate plate to eat alongside tanuki soba. Thank you, Fuji Soba. If another limited-edition item comes out, I will be back.
Nadai Fuji Soba Akasaka ten (Soba / Akasaka Station, Tameike-sanno Station, Akasaka-mitsuke Station)
Tabelog lunch rating ★★★☆☆ 3.1
I ate here and paid for it myself. Nothing on this site is a comped meal.
One more for the road?
