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title: A shitamachi breakfast: grilled salmon and tofu miso soup
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# A shitamachi breakfast: grilled salmon and tofu miso soup

Cook the local flavors once more　/　Chuo, Tokyo

Tsukudani was born in neighboring Tsukuda. The fishermen from Osaka whom Tokugawa Ieyasu brought here are said to have simmered small fish and shellfish in salt and soy sauce as a preserved food for fishing trips; cheap and long-lasting, it spread among the people of Edo. This morning it was clam and kelp tsukudani from a shop founded in 1837, alongside miso soup made with tofu fresh from a nearby shop.

## Ingredients

- Cooked rice
- Salmon fillet
- Freshly made tofu
- Green onions
- Seaweed
- Miso
- Tsukudani (clam and kelp)

## How I made it

1. Chop the green onions
2. Grill the salmon in a toaster oven until the skin is crisp
3. Make miso soup with the tofu, seaweed and green onions
4. Serve with freshly cooked rice and tsukudani on a tray

## This moment in the journey: A good-mood breakfast

Time to make breakfast with what I bought. I chopped green onions and slid a salmon fillet into the toaster oven. Once the skin was crisp and golden, I scooped rice from the cooker in the kitchen.

Past the steep wooden stairs, I carried the tray to the low table in front of the shoji screens. Freshly cooked rice, freshly grilled salmon. Miso soup with the just-made tofu and chopped green onions, and tsukudani, the shitamachi specialty.

In the striped dish, clam and kelp tsukudani, simmered sweet and salty, perfect with white rice. A good-mood breakfast.

![A tray of rice, grilled salmon and tsukudani](https://karigurashijourney.com/img/tokyo-nagaya/s37-1200.jpg)
- Sources: https://www.mec-h.com/town/mh-harumi/11

Read this scene in the full journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/tokyo-nagaya/