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Location → Osaka, Japan
Access→Osaka
1 minute walk from Namba Station on the Nankai Railway Koya Line and Main Line
6 minutes walk from Namba Station, Osaka Metro Lines
Kintetsu Namba Line/Hanshin Namba Line 8 min. walk from Osaka Namba Sta.
11 minutes walk from JR Namba Station on JR Kansai Honsen Line→ Namba Skyo 6F→ Zojirushi Shokudo
Name of restaurant→ Zojirushi Shokudo
Opening date→ October 17, 2018
Instagram account → @zojirushisyokudo
Genre→ Teishoku, Shokudo, Japanese cuisine (other)
Business hours→ Monday-Sunday (11.00-15.00) L.O.→14.00 (17.00-22.00) L.O.→21.00
Holidays→Open all year round (same as Namba Skyo)
Seats: 59
Takeout→Available
Waiting time → Yes (arrived at the restaurant at around 10:56 on Wednesday, was able to enter the restaurant at 12:08)
Crowded→Full house. There was a line outside the restaurant (between 12:08 and 12:41 on Wednesday).
Clientele→Many women, many elderly, no one alone
Charge→Unknown
Cigarette→No smoking
Magazine→None
Menu details→You will be given a menu while waiting in line, so you can check all the menus, or you can check all the menus in the restaurant.
Photos of the restaurant→Available
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Information about the store
This is a restaurant where you can taste rice made by Zojirushi, famous for its rice cookers, and is by far the most popular restaurant in Namba Sky-O.
Even on weekdays, if you arrive before the store opens, you will have to wait in line for an hour, so I recommend you to start lining up about an hour before the store opens (11:00).
Zojirushi Shokudo was originally opened for a limited time in Tokyo and Osaka twice in the past during the new rice season.
Now, for the first time, Zojirushi Shokudo has opened a permanent location at each of its stores.
There is only one store in Osaka (Namba), and the others are in Tokyo, Hokkaido, Aichi, Fukuoka, and other five stores in total.
The rice is all cooked in Zojirushi's 100th year's finest rice cooker, and is served in the restaurant.
The rice is cooked in a process called "flame dance cooking," in which the rice is made to dance by the intense and complex convection currents created by the flickering of the intense flame to cook each grain of rice to a fluffy perfection.
Moreover, the rice used is blended by Kaneko Shoten, which employs a five-star rice master.
What's more, as you can see in the 6th photo, you can eat all the rice you want!
The 3rd photo is regular cooked white rice
The 4th photo is health-supporting rice
The 5th photo is cooked white rice
You can eat as much as you want, and the waiter will ask you for more rice, so it is easy to refill your rice.
In addition to rice, side dishes are prepared under the supervision of Asako Yoshida, a chef who is active as a cooking supervisor for TV and magazines.
You can enjoy Japanese home cooking based on the theme of "health" with rich flavors.
Another attraction of the restaurant is the tea bar, where you can drink as much hot and cold sencha, roasted green tea, and brown rice tea as you like.
This time I had
Zojirushi Gozen (white wooden set meal) 🌾🍚🍱¥-1,600
Main dish → simmered pork cubes
Consists of 4 side dishes, main dish, 2 kinds of flame cooked rice, rice with rice accompaniments, miso soup with aosa seaweed, and a small dessert - rice ice cream
(Only the ice cream will be brought to you by the waiter after you finish all the dishes.
For the main dish, you can choose between salmon, shrimp, pork stew or cream croquette!
Food menu with the name of the restaurant on it, including Hanagozen and takeaway lunch boxes.
By the way, there are only two lunch menus.
The food menu is mainly for dinner.
For dinner, there were several dishes with excellent rice as the main dish!
The drink menu includes sake, beer, sours, shochu, wine, plum wine, highballs, and soft drinks.
Celebrating 400 Reviews I made it there alone amongst all my uncles!
First of all, I'm going to talk about 12 lines that have nothing to do with cooking, so if you're not interested, please ignore me.
Osaka is No. 1 in tonkatsu and hamburger steak ranking, and No. 2 in tonkatsu ranking nationwide (as of November 13, 2011).
I went to Hiroki, which I have been curious about for a long time!
I actually knew Hiroki before I started the food log!
I was surprised to find out how popular this place is!
I was surprised to find out how popular this place is! It's like, "Oh my God, there's a popular restaurant in a place like this!
Then, in June 2011, my friend's baby was born and I had a chance to go there.
I went to the front of the store, parked my bike, and was about to go there, but...
I was so excited that I didn't have the courage to jump into the crowd of almost all the customers....
Then, in October, I had a chance to see the baby! I thought, "This time!
I received a text message from a friend saying, "Let's have a takoyaki party for lunch!
But she didn't know I was going to Hiroki, and the next day she said, "If you can't make it, we can have dinner at night" (T▽T).
So I took my friend's word for it and went.
First, we parked our bikes on the gravel road.
You can force 4 or 5 cars to park, but they will be packed in front of you.
While you are eating, the waiter will ask you to move your car.
This can't be helped - we'll cooperate with them.
It's just before 1:00 p.m. on a weekday, and when I muster up the courage to open the door, it's almost always an old man!
There are about 10 seats at the counter and 2 tables for 4 people.
Of course, since I am alone, I sit at the counter, between the man and the man.
The door was heavy, but once you enter, it is totally fine (lol).
When I came here, I wanted to try the shrimp cream croquette,
So I decided to have the special loin cutlet & shrimp cream croquette set meal for 1,040 yen!
When an order is placed, you can hear a thumping sound!
They must be pounding the meat every time an order comes in!
I thought there was a lot of time for frying,
I was watching the entertainment news on TV, so I didn't mind.
First, miso soup, rice and pickles were served, and then came the pork cutlet!
The cream croquettes were fried and brought to the table later, so I guess they didn't make it together!
Let's start with the pork cutlet!
It is quite thick and filled with demi-glace sauce!
Let's take a bite,
It is crispy and juicy, and the fat is sweet and delicious!
The demi-glace sauce is not too thick, but rather light.
It's not too thick, but not overpowering, so you can enjoy the pork cutlet.
Then comes the shrimp cream croquette!
They are plump, round, and big, and look delicious!
Break it in half with your chopsticks and the cream will flow out!
Oh my God! This cream croquette is so delicious!
Smooth and rich, but with a great aftertaste.
I have never had such a delicious cream croquette!
I am so happy!
I was full by the time I finished!
I asked for a small amount of rice from the beginning, but I was full!
This volume, this taste, and this price is too good!
I want to go back for fried oysters in winter!
I heard that there are not enough delicious oysters this year due to the earthquake!
Maybe they will finish early, so if you are aiming for fried oysters, you'd better hurry!
Also, they don't seem to be open much at night.
You might want to inquire or check their website.
It was very delicious!
To all those who always comment and vote for us
Thank you for always looking at my poor writing and photos!
I am really surprised at myself that I could write 400 reviews!
I still have a lot of drafts to go through...(-_-;)
Thanks to all of you, I have been able to continue to do this.
Please keep up the good work!
Eririnko