Top 5 must-try Chanko Nabe Restaurant in Tokyo

When you first come to Japan and especially Tokyo, you will definitely want to go and see Sumo Tournaments in Ryogoku Kokugikan Sumo Hall for once. Maybe it is hard to book the ticket to go and see actual sumo fights as the Big Tournament is only held 3 times a year (January, May and September), however you can always enjoy sumo culture by tasting the most famous dish for every sumo wrestler in Japan, which is called Chanko Nabe. This is one of Japan traditional food and give sumo wrestlers a heathly weight-gain diet.

Chanko Nabe is hot pot which is made from boiled chicken soup, and there are many ingredients to be added to the soup such as beef, pork, chicken, seafood, vegetables, clams, shrimp, oysters, tofu …You can give these top 5 Chanko Nabe Restaurants here in Tokyo a try for once:

1. Chanko Kirishima

The Chanko Kirishima which was opened in front of JR Ryogoku Station by Ozeki Kirishima, now have an entire 8 floor building and 320 seats for chanko restaurant.

Recommend menu is 4,320 yen Course Chanko Nabe with 6 dishs, from hot pot to sashimi, etc. You can choose from many nabe dashi types such as soy sauce, miso, salty, kimchi. This restaurant is also famous for such as deep-fried Kumamoto chicken and chicken wings also.

2. Sumo Chaya Chanko Edozawa:

There are private rooms and banquets for group customers and the number of seats is 386 seats. Recommend menu is Special edition Edozawa course with drinks for the price of 4,000JPY/ person. This Chanko pot uses only soy sauce with non-added chicken broth, and this broth is cooked carefully by secret recipe and seasoned with Mongolia salt. You can choose from 4 different broth.

3. Sumo Chaya Terao:

Terio’s Chanko has five varieties of soy sauce, miso, salt and orthodox things, special ponzu, and special curry taste which is recommended for hot season. This restaurant is also famous for their homemade yuzu pepper, made from chicken pig minced and carefully mixed with yolk and garlic. Chanko menu is around 2,500JPY/person.

4. Chanko Masuiyama

The store just opened in 2015, and the special menu is Chicken Tsukune Soy Sauce Chanko: 2,300JPY/person.

This Chicken pot is a menu that recreates the “tori tsukune chanko” that the sumo wrestlers all love. You can experience the taste of authentic Chanko hotpot here.

5. Rikishi Ryori Kotogaume

This restaurant’s No 1 popular “Suisou Nabe” is made from 12 types of ingredients such as chicken meat ball, chicken, cabbage etc in chicken broth base soup.

In addition, there are many different types of menu such as “Sop Pot” is made with Shoyu, “Kimchi Nabe” and “Iwashi” are made with miso, and “Miso Butter chanko Nabe “” Curry Chanko Nabe “are also popular dishes.

Source: macaro-ni.jp, vege-garden.com