The Best Whitebait Bowl is in Kochi 高知 Prefecture (Chirimen-don ちりめん丼 / Shirasu-don しらす丼 / Dorome どろめ)

Whitebait Bowl (Chirimen-don ちりめん丼 / Shirasu-don しらす丼)

Chirimen-don 620 yen (including tax)
ちりめん丼

with half boiled egg 720 yen
(It is Yuzu citron flavor egg.)

This set meal of Whitebait (Baby sardine) Bowl is only 620 yen. Super low price and delicious!

This shop specializes in Whitebait Bowl. (Boiled whitebait on rice bowl)

Fresh Whitebait (Dorome どろめ / Nama-shirasu 生しらす)

They also offer really fresh whitebait.

This one is not boiled. Fresh (Raw) whitebait is called Nama-shirasu 生しらす or Dorome どろめ in Japanese.

Boiled whitebait (Baby sardine) called Chirimen ちりめん, Chirimen-jako ちりめんじゃこ or Shirasu しらす in Japanese.

Boiled whitebait (This one includes lots of tiny shrimps.)

This shop offers sun-dried whitebait.

Maybe you will see this view if you come here on a beautiful day.

This house is situated in a fish port and serves as a whitebait factory.

You can have freshly-made food from the factory!

* Parking lots are available in the front and back of the shop.

The shop opens only on Saturday. (10:30 am - 2:00 pm)

Whitebait Bowl (Chirimen-don ちりめん丼 / Shirasu-don しらす丼) 土佐角弘海産高知県香南市

When you arrive at the shop, please write your name, the number of people, and which table you would like to be seated at including whether it is indoors or outdoors. A staff member will be with you momentarily to take you to your table.

フルネームの名前お名前	住所	電話番号	大人の人数	小人の人数	店内・店外・どちらでも
Full Name	Address	TEL	Number of Adult	Number of Children	Indoors, Outdoors, Either one

Address and TEL are not necessary. If you would like to receive mails of their advertisement and event information, please fill them up.

Whitebait Bowl with Seared Bonito
7 Slices 1300 yen
4 Slices 1100 yen

カツオのたたき付ちりめん丼
Katsuo Tataki Chirimen-don

Indoors

Outdoors

There are 2 entrances. When you buy food for to go, Please go into the shop from the east entrance, not the north entrance.

This whitebait shop is a self-service system.
The whitebait, soup, pickles, sauce, and tea have a free refill, except for rice.

First pay the lunch fee at the cash desk.
Adult: 620 yen
10 - 5 years old: 410 yen
* Including 10% tax
* 4 or younger than 4 years old: For free

Next, you can put the rice yourself in the rice bowl. You can choose how much more you want.

ごはんのおかわりはご遠慮ください

...means you can only do it one time. (No refills)

Leaving leftover food is a bad manner at this reasonable shop, because the shop wants to keep amazingly reasonable low price for customer satisfaction.

Then, you put the toppings on the rice.

A few kinds of whitebait

Right: Shrimp and whitebait
Middle: Boiled and 20%-sun-dried whitebait
Left: Boiled whitebait without drying

Left: Boiled and 70%-sun-dried whitebait

* These items above might be sometimes changed.

This shop is the highest level in Japan. They always offer the tiniest babies as possible because when whitebait start getting bigger the texture of the fish such as bone changes and the fishy smell increases.

Whitebait miso soup

Soy sauce (Red bottle)
Ponzu sauce (ポン酢 Citrus-flavored soy sauce)
Yuzu citron (Yellow bottle: Yuzu has good flavor like lime.)

* I recommend you put a lot of Yuzu citron sauce and some Ponzu ポン酢 sauce on it.

Fresh (Raw) Whitebait Dorome どろめ is also free refill.
* Sometimes Fresh Whitebait Dorome どろめ is no stock because of purchasing from a fish market.

2 kinds of special sauce packs for fresh whitebait Dorome どろめ

This sauce that called Nuta ぬた is very good for fresh whitebait.

Nuta ぬた sauce has garlic flavor. I like it!

Another sauce that called Tataki-no-tare たたきのたれ is a little bit sweet soy sauce and vinegar.

お一人様一袋でお願いいたします。
1 Pack Only (Free of Charge)

This set meal costs only 620 yen. Wonderful!!

My toppings were grated daikon radish, cucumber pickles and shredded Japanese basil Ooba.

You can get a free refill for whitebait except rice yourself.

I was full and satisfied.

If you would like to order packed whitebait to go, you can come inside and place your order at the food display counter, regardless of whether there is a queue.

朝どれどろめ Asadore-dorome: Fresh Whitebait Dorome どろめ 300 yen
(The fish are caught hours before being served.) It is high quality and rare!
小イカ Koika: Boild small squid 100 or 300 yen