ACA, one of the most popular Spanish restaurants in Japan. This time, they served two types of paella: sanma (Pacific saury) and crab.

This year’s sanma in Japan has been plentiful, with excellent quality. The fish are large, and the sanma paella was absolutely delicious.

The bocadillo wasn’t made with kohada (gizzard shad), but with shinko (young gizzard shad) instead. I was able to enjoy many seasonal dishes that are only available at this time of year.

by foodiepenguin22

5 Comments

  1. 2730Ceramics

    This looks awesome, adding it to my bucket list in the unlikely event that I’m in Tokyo again. I love the idea of sushi sized paella!

  2. ANuclearNarwhal

    Looks really awesome. I really hope I can try when I visit Tokyo in January. How did you get a reservation? Did you get in by the lottery or some other method?

  3. NoodleThings

    Very nice, I’m curious shinko bocadillo is like vs the kohada one. It’s my favorite time of year for shinko sushi – they’re big enough to have flavour but not so large as kohada so the flavour pretty clean