Kamameshi Shizuka Kouen-ten

Eat at Zhijinxiang Park Store. After eating it for N days, I bit my tongue N times and it finally started to bleed. But I still endured the pain and ate all the seven Nara items. Crab, shrimp, chicken shoots, eel, peas, mushrooms, strange side dishes and fragrant crispy rice. The waiter said cash only when paying the bill, which made us a little embarrassed when we didn't have enough cash.

According to the guide, Nara's specialties are only persimmon leaf sushi and kamameshi. I ate persimmon leaf sushi at the old shop when I came here before, and I thought it was just average, so I wanted to eat kamameshi this time. This Shizuka is a popular online store in Nara, and it is basically recommended on major travel websites, and there are several branches. I chose this one next to Nara Park. It turns out that the store is remote, but there is no one around at night, which is very cool. Ordering here is basically a kamameshi set meal per person, and you can choose what to eat. The feature is the Nara seven kinds of kamameshi here. The things in it are not as rich as imagined. Anyway, there is a little bit of each. It is better to have an eel kamameshi directly. The overall serving speed is not fast, the taste is not bad, and there is a special teaching method to eat it, in order to get the rice crust. In general, it is average, and it is more famous.

After visiting the National Museum in Nara Park, it was already past 1pm. Our stomachs were growling, so we went to the Shizuka in the park store for lunch. This is an old store with a very clean and cozy interior. It mainly serves traditional Japanese food, and its tea porridge is also very famous. The set meal I ordered cost more than 100 RMB. My son ordered sushi 🍣 and shrimp 🍤, and barbecue, which cost nearly 300 RMB. The price is a little expensive, but the taste is excellent. I was very satisfied with the meal 😄

Shizuka I highly recommend their kamameshi, which is actually steamed rice in a small pot, mainly with various seafood or eels steamed on top of the rice. The juice seeps into the rice and it becomes very fragrant. There are also some rules for eating, eat the middle first, put it in a bowl and quickly cover the pot, and you can eat the rice crust in a while. It's delicious

The location is about halfway between Nara Kintetsu Station and Nara Park. It opens at 11am but the queue started at 10:45. We arrived a few minutes after 11am and waited for more than an hour, the second batch to go in. We ordered a 7-ingredient Kamameshi set meal, the seasonal special has two large shrimps and two oysters. The oysters were very tender and not fishy at all, very delicious.

Tsujika (Park Branch) is located at 59-11 Noboriojicho 630-8213, Nara City, Nara Prefecture. It is very popular, so be prepared to queue. It is located right on the way to Kasuga Taisha Shrine and Nara Park, so you can definitely see it. The food is very good and the price is above average. If you don't want too much rice crust, it is recommended to turn the rice from time to time, or eat directly from the top down. This way, only the bottom layer will have rice crust.