Local Eats Japan

Located on the fourth floor of a building in a rather inconspicuous business area being Ginza, is some of the best gyoza I have had in Japan. Not to mention it is reasonable!

The location can be a bit tricky to find, even if you use google maps as it might display “you have arrived” but are still in the middle of the street when the restaurant is inside a building (you may experience this a lot in Japan). 

Luckily however, Ginza Tenryu has their sign on the left hand side of the building along with a few other restaurants actually, so you can confirm if you are in the right place or not. 

Once you have done so, you can just walk straight past the sign and at the back wall of the building  you should see elevators on either your right or left. Then just ride these up to the 4th floor and you’re good. 

Before coming here, I never took an area as posh as Ginza for having many restaurants, let alone one as well known as Ginza Tenryu 

They are most well known because of their gyoza, and this isn’t based solely on taste, but rather the fact that one gyoza is the same size as a small banana. Yeah, this isn’t an exaggeration. 

Not to mention you can only order in increments of 8, so it can be a bit tough when you are by yourself (trust me I know).
But still, when I went in there on a weekday at lunchtime every single salaryman I saw there was ordering the same thing as me – 8 humongous gyoza and a bowl of rice. 

The gyoza themselves are stuffed with pork and various vegetables and have a really good crisp to them. What I also appreciate is that the meat to vegetable ratio is significant, so it allows for a ton of meat juice to flow out when you eat it – further enhancing the umami.  

You would also think that with the gyoza being this big they wouldn’t hold up their integrity, but they actually do quite well. 

If you let them sit too long however, they will lose some of their crispiness, and so I recommend eating them at a good pace. 

Besides gyoza they have plenty of other good menu items like ebi-mayo or ebi-chili which are both shrimp coated in mayonnaise or chilli which might sound gross but it is actually extremely good, and a super common dish at Japanese-Chinese restaurants. 

The staff here are really nice, and the restaurant is big so you do not have to worry about how many people you come in with. They even have English menus available.

The only thing I will say though, is that because it is so-uber popular, you may have to line up (especially if you go at night). 

I assume a lot of you will be going to Ginza, and I think the one thing that stumps people is where they should eat. 

This place checks all the boxes though. It is delicious, reasonably priced, and you can get in relatively easily without waiting too long despite it being some of the best and most unique gyoza you may ever have.

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