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Calories · Japanese

Calories in shrimp tempura

A typical restaurant serving of shrimp tempura (five pieces of shrimp tempura, dipping sauce and rice not included, about 125 g) is about 240 calories, usually 180–400.

Restaurant portions vary; this is a typical estimate, not a label. Also called ebi tempura, ebi ten, prawn tempura.

~240
Shrimp tempura

The usual range

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Protein, carbs and fat

  • Protein25 g
  • Carbs8 g
  • Fat13 g

One serving

Serving
five pieces of shrimp tempura, dipping sauce and rice not included
Weight
~125 g
Per 100 g
~194

The dish

About shrimp tempura

Shrimp itself is lean, so most of tempura's calories come from the light batter and the frying oil it absorbs. Thick batter, big prawns, or tempura served over rice or rolled into sushi all push the number up.

Ways it comes

One dish, a few numbers

Shrimp tempura · rough numbers

  • One piece~50

What moves the number

Why one plate is 180 and another 400

  • Thickness of the batter
  • Oil the batter soaks up in the fryer
  • Tempura on rice (tendon) or in a roll adds the rice

Ordering lighter

If you want a lighter plate

  • Order a mixed plate with more vegetables
  • Skip the extra tempura flakes
  • Choose it as a side rather than tendon

Side by side

Next to other Japanese dishes

Japanese · typical restaurant servingAll about Japanese food →

  • Miso soup~50one bowl with tofu and seaweed · usually 30–90
  • Salmon nigiri~110two pieces, one plate · usually 70–150
  • Salmon sashimi~220about 100 g of sliced raw salmon, roughly six to eight slices · usually 150–340
  • Shrimp tempura~240five pieces of shrimp tempura, dipping sauce and rice not included · usually 180–400
  • California roll~300one roll cut into 8 pieces · usually 230–420
  • Udon noodle soup~300one bowl of plain kake udon in dashi broth, no tempura or extra toppings · usually 250–650
  • Chicken karaage~310five pieces of fried chicken karaage · usually 230–500
  • Gyoza~310six pan-fried pork gyoza, dipping sauce not included · usually 200–480
  • Tonkatsu~420one fried pork cutlet, without the rice, soup and cabbage · usually 330–600
  • Oyakodon~590one bowl of rice topped with chicken, egg and onion · usually 480–780
  • Gyudon~630one regular-size nami bowl · usually 470–1,010
  • Shoyu ramen~710one restaurant bowl with broth, noodles, chashu and egg · usually 520–1,000

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How these numbers were made

Method and sources

Last reviewed

Restaurant portions and cooking vary, so these are typical estimates for one serving, built from the sources below. Treat it as a rough number: your plate may land anywhere in the range.

If you manage a health condition, ask a doctor or registered dietitian.

AI helped draft this page; every number was checked against the sources.

  1. Japan MEXT Standard Tables of Food Composition (8th ed., 2023) — Whiteleg shrimp, farmed, tempura, 10416
  2. USDA FoodData Central (FNDDS) — Shrimp, fried, FDC 2706364

Questions

Questions people ask.

How many calories are in shrimp tempura?

A typical restaurant serving of shrimp tempura (five pieces of shrimp tempura, dipping sauce and rice not included, about 125 g) is about 240 calories, usually 180–400. The number depends mostly on the portion and how it is cooked.

How many calories are in one piece of shrimp tempura?

About 50 a piece.

Is tempura heavy?

Shrimp is lean; most of the number is the batter and the oil it absorbs. On rice as tendon, the rice adds on top.

What changes the calories in shrimp tempura?

Thickness of the batter. Oil the batter soaks up in the fryer.

How can I order shrimp tempura lighter?

Order a mixed plate with more vegetables. Skip the extra tempura flakes.

Can PlateDiary show calories for the dishes I eat out?

Yes, if you want it to: calories in PlateDiary are off unless you turn them on. Switch them on and each dish you save from a photo of the table gets one rough “~” number you can accept or change.