TSUKIJI WET MARKET – ONE OF MY MOST FAVORITE PLACE ON EARTH HANDS DOWN

Hi there

By now you should pretty much know I am a supermarket fanatic and I just lovvveeeee supermarkets and wet markets, and every country I go, if time permits, I will make my way to there. And if I am in Japan, my must go destination always include Tsukiji wet market. 🙂

I always start off with some really good sushi there, I know, this sushi looks so pretty right!!??  After sushi at the Tsukiji inner market, I will move on to the outer market where all the real actions for me start. 🙂

Take note of one thing, you need to take the train to the Tsukijishijo station and not Tsukiji station if you want to go to the wet market, it is just only a short 5 mins walk from there.

What I love about Tsukiji market is that I can see so many colorful and delicious food. Instant pick me up moments.

Colorful pickles using carrots, radish, wasabi, gobo, pumpkins, and many many many more.

Dried stuff like dried puffer fish fins, seaweeds, dried seafood

Seafood of course, everytime I go I wish I can stay there for a whole month so that I can cook every day in the rented apartment.

Even desserts are sold in the wet market, mango pudding anyone??

There are also lots of stuff to buy from there, I love to buy kitchen tools there, and they also have many cool cheap T-shirts with japanese fonts prints, and also slippers. If you are lucky you can also try out their wasabi ice cream too.

However one thing that I just bring myself to try is deep fried whale meat. I saw others trying it, but the comments I usually get is it has a very strong gamey flavor, well its just a personal thing, but I really can’t bring myself to do it.

You can also find many interesting vegetables there too. These are the fresh wasabi, doesn’t come cheap, about SGD10 but definitely much much cheaper than buying it in Singapore. Freshly grated wasabi is like the king of flavors, even grating it is so pungent.

Now to the snack part.

Sushi is a must – checked. 🙂

Freshly shucked oyster is a must too – checked. 🙂

Freshly fried mega huge fish cake that comes in all sort of flavors – checked 🙂

 

Tsukudani which are stewed seafood – checked 🙂

Freshly cooked tamagoyaki which is japanese omelette with various flavours and condiments like radish sauce, seaweed, sweet flavour or mustard. All 100yen each. – checked checked checked (because I usually doesn’t stop just one! haha)

 

And I guess I am not the only one in the family like this, even my son love it.

Yes, I love Japan, and I love Tsukiji, my dream of staying in Japan for a whole month so that I can cook every day when I was there, yeah a dream but a dream that I hope to attain one day, may be retirement.. haha..

TSUKIJI WET MARKET – ONE OF MY MOST FAVORITE PLACE ON EARTH HANDS DOWN

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Dawn