A note on the words: Yokohama Chinatown is the largest Chinatown in Japan, and Toyosu is Tokyo’s wholesale fish market, the successor to Tsukiji. Zha cai is the pickled mustard stem served as a salty little appetizer. Shiso is the fragrant green perilla leaf, somewhere between mint and basil. Kuruma shrimp are the large striped shrimp Japanese kitchens prize, and Shaoxing wine is a Chinese rice wine used both for drinking and for marinating. Spear squid is a small, tender squid. Chinjao rosu is shredded beef stir-fried with green peppers and bamboo shoot; mapo tofu is tofu in a spicy bean-paste sauce; yurinchi is fried chicken under a sweet-and-sour soy dressing with scallion. Gyoza are dumplings, boiled rather than pan-fried in this case, and Peking duck is eaten by wrapping the crisp skin in a thin pancake with scallion and cucumber.
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Kakin Hanten on Tabelog (English) — opening hours, payment details and the Japanese address are kept up to date there, not here.
Hey, this is Hangover Meshi. This time I’d heard there was a good Chinese restaurant inside Yokohama Chinatown with a fish shop attached! I want to go!!! The place next door to the restaurant is a fishmonger? And you can eat good fish sent straight from Toyosu Market — that’s pretty unusual, or rather, it’s interesting! So I rang them up straight away and off to the restaurant! On arriving, it does indeed look like there’s a fishmonger next door, lol
They seem to have set courses as well. At a glance even the most expensive course is around 5,500 yen, so quite reasonable!
This time, though, we decided to work through whatever we felt like picking, starting from the appetizers.
Right, let’s choose a few things from the appetizer section!
First, beer! Cold and delicious!! Beer is the thing in a hot summer.
The sort of thing that becomes a snack simply by sitting on the table. Compared with the kind you buy at a supermarket, this one feels oilier and more moist in its pickling. The salt level is just right too, and it’s good.
That sauce really is delicious. So good.
Surf clam dressed with scallion, extremely good. Zero funk! One hundred percent savory depth, that sort of thing.
Your standard shrimp in chili sauce. It’s the sweetened kind, tuned to Japanese tastes, and there’s hardly any heat to it.
This one was featured as one of the ten must-eat dishes, lol
Plump shrimp rolled up with shiso in a spring roll wrapper. They cut them in half before serving ^^ The crisp wrapper against the texture of the shrimp is good.
Another of the ten must-eat dishes, lol Shrimp marinated in Shaoxing wine, blanched, and eaten with garlic soy sauce.
It’s the messy-hands sort of dish, but they give you plastic gloves, so you can get on with it without worrying. The flesh is very soft and sweet. And the garlic-scented soy suits it superbly. This is simply a delicious dish. Don’t forget to suck the heads!
Ten must-eat dishes! The small spear squid are fried up light and airy and go extremely well with the scallion chips.
This is what you’d call chinjao rosu, I suppose. Chinjao rosu at a proper Chinese restaurant is delicious! The seasoning is superb!
Another of the ten must-eat dishes. Steamed oysters.
Plump oysters, very sweet and very good. The place where the juices they give off mingle with the sauce is irresistible too.
Peking duck! The orthodox kind, crisp Peking duck skin rolled up with vegetables. Good.
Seafood mapo tofu! A soft waft of seafood flavor. Not much heat to it. It feels quite firmly thickened with potato starch.
This is what they call yurinchi!
The thick, crisp coating goes extremely well with the sweet and slightly sour sauce. The kind of thing that makes you want rice!
So — we ordered whatever we liked a la carte, one after another, and I do rather feel we over-ordered, lol. By the end I was completely full. Thoroughly satisfied. Eating a set course is fine too, but a la carte, where you eat only the things you want to eat, has its own virtues. Good seafood as well — very satisfying. The location is a little off the main street, but it was delicious, so I recommend it!
Kakin Hanten (Chinese / Motomachi-Chukagai Station, Ishikawacho Station, Nihon-odori Station)
Tabelog dinner rating ★★★☆☆ 3.7
I ate here and paid for it myself. Nothing on this site is a comped meal.
One more for the road?
