The avocado 🥑 udon 🍜 at Higashi-Ginza Daitsune. Daitsune is a produce shop, so expectations are high for good quality vegetables at this noodle shop on a quiet back street in Higashi-Ginza. Popular with local office workers it can get busy. There is a table out in front of the shop (or there was when I last went). Daitsune is famous for the avocado udon, which makes for a cool photo, but is also delicious.

Daitsune, like many udon shops, has a seasonal selection of tempura. Here is fuki no tō, butterbur, which is a sansai mountain spring vegetable. Slightly bitter which is a flavor of early spring.

The interior is very simple. Grab a tray and select any tempura and place your order for noodles. The meal is quick. Slurp and go. The avocado udon is a bargain 750 yen ($5.75). A basic bowl of kaké udon, noodles with broth, starts at 450 yen ($3.50). The kaké udon can be ordered hot or cold. I prefer cold – the better to enjoy the texture of the udon noodles. *This is an old photo. Prices have gone up, about 50 yen.

八百屋さんのうどんは素晴らしい。アボカドうどんはとても良いマリアージュ。天ぷらの種類も豊富。

Daitsune 大常

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Chūō-ku, Ginza 7-15-17

http://daitsune.net/

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