Sumo Food in Ryogoku, Tokyo – Japan Day 10 April 15, 2009
Posted by Martin in : japan, travel , trackbackIt was time for some serious Tokyo food so I decided to take Tik to Ryogoku which houses Tokyo’s sumo stadium.
The guidebook suggested we’d see a lot of sumo wrestlers walking around but April is not sumo season and apparently the high rental costs in the area mean that most wresting schools have since relocated.
It didn’t take us long to find a restaurant offering ‘Chanko-nabe’ which is a favorite Sumo wrestler food.
For those of you familiar with Thailand’s MK restuarnat, the food was very similar.
We were served a pot of boiling water which was gradually populated with meats and vegetables.
Unlike MK, we had no choice as to what was served and it was cooked for us by the waiter.
Despite being about eight times more costly than the Thailand equivalent the stew tasted much different as it contained a lot of foods we tend not to order ourselves in Thailand. It was very tasty and, typical of us, we finished the lot.
I was lamenting to Tik as we headed home how I was a little disappointed that we didn’t see one sumo wrestler in the area and, literally a few seconds later one walked out of the station.
I was actually quite nervous to ask permission for a photo shoot and bowed my head a few hundred times between asking him, taking the photo and saying my goodbye. He doesn’t look especially happy with the intrusion but Tik doesn’t half look small and slim by comparison.
If you notice though, Sumo wresters are not actually fat. They’re actually very muscular and well proportioned. I’d certainly not want to see one of them angry at me as they cut quite an intimidating figure.
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