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 😄

I heard that it would be full at noon, so I went there after 6pm. There were only a few customers left. I ordered food and still waited for a few minutes. Maybe I was too hungry and wanted to eat it right away. It was seafood steamed rice. The rice was very good, but overall it was not as amazing as the eel rice in Nagoya.

I saw the queue outside the door from a distance, but it didn't seem to be long, only about a dozen people. I ordered the food outside the door, and finally entered the door after more than 40 minutes, only to find that there were still eight or nine chairs waiting in line. I waited for about half an hour before it was my turn to sit at the table, and waited at the table for another ten minutes before the food was finally served. It was a very special meal, and the rice crust at the end was particularly delicious.

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.