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Thank LJ for excellent Japanese food!
Sep. 1st, 2005 09:01 pmWhen I take the T's commuter rail into Cambridge from Waltham, I get off at Porter Square. About a block from Porter Square is a mall, the Porter Exchange, with a Japanese food court. Not, mind you, an American food court with a stall that serves Japanese food — a Japanese food court, like in a mall in Japan. This means that all the stalls serve Japanese food, and it is very fresh, and very, very authentic.
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rushthatspeaks just got a job there, at the pastry stand (the sweet bean bun was delicious), and she mentioned it in her journal.
Restaurant: Tampopo
Location: 1815 Mass Ave, Cambridge (in the Porter Exchange Mall)
Item: "Healthy Bowl" (crispy tofu and steamed vegetables over rice, miso soup)
Price: $6
The miso soup was about par for Japanese restaurant miso soup, and not overly salty.
The crispy tofu was very hot, actually crispy on the outside, and meltingly smooth on the inside. The vegetables were tender, and the sweet ginger soy sauce was tasty. But best of all was the rice. The rice was perfect.
Perfection in Japanese rice is hard to find. It is, of course, completely different from perfection in any other kind of rice. The pearls of rice must stick together a little, but they must be distinct, with a certain delicate chewiness. Morimoto — I've twice treated myself to a small sushi snack there, an indulgence I recomment to all sushi lovers in the Philadelphia area — serves perfect Japanese rice, of course. And so does this little hole in the wall in Porter Square.
As a lover of Japanese food who will somwhat often be trying to get a quick bite to eat in Porter Square before catching a train, I plan to be visiting the Porter Exchange Mall regularly. Thanks,rushthatspeaks!
I know all this because
rushthatspeaks just got a job there, at the pastry stand (the sweet bean bun was delicious), and she mentioned it in her journal.Restaurant: Tampopo
Location: 1815 Mass Ave, Cambridge (in the Porter Exchange Mall)
Item: "Healthy Bowl" (crispy tofu and steamed vegetables over rice, miso soup)
Price: $6
The miso soup was about par for Japanese restaurant miso soup, and not overly salty.
The crispy tofu was very hot, actually crispy on the outside, and meltingly smooth on the inside. The vegetables were tender, and the sweet ginger soy sauce was tasty. But best of all was the rice. The rice was perfect.
Perfection in Japanese rice is hard to find. It is, of course, completely different from perfection in any other kind of rice. The pearls of rice must stick together a little, but they must be distinct, with a certain delicate chewiness. Morimoto — I've twice treated myself to a small sushi snack there, an indulgence I recomment to all sushi lovers in the Philadelphia area — serves perfect Japanese rice, of course. And so does this little hole in the wall in Porter Square.
As a lover of Japanese food who will somwhat often be trying to get a quick bite to eat in Porter Square before catching a train, I plan to be visiting the Porter Exchange Mall regularly. Thanks,
rushthatspeaks!
