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It's Saturday night in Shinsaibashi. I checked my pedometer and it shows 15,000 steps... I'm tired. But if I don't walk, I won't get a sense of direction. I've pretty much got the hang of Namba, Shinsaibashi, Nipponbashi, and Soemoncho. Anyway, for dinner, I made a reservation at a place called "Kiraku" that I visited last year and had a good impression of. Osaka is famous for its fierce competition in yakiniku (grilled meat), but there are so many options, it's a gamble to try a new place. Now, let's get to the main topic. I have listed each comment in the photo section, so please enjoy the images along with the comments.
Summary: I walked through Soemoncho Street. When I got off at the sixth floor of a clean building past Aiaibashi, I found the entrance to the restaurant right away. I informed the counter on the left about my reservation and was guided to a private room on the right. I moistened my throat with a Hakushu highball and ordered the special course. The variety of meat is amazing, but the highlight here is the abundance of Japanese-style small dishes that complement the meat, not just simple appetizers.
Course Contents: Special Course
Yakiniku sauce options: garlic, salt, and lemon squeeze
- Chorogi salad with white truffle oil
- Kimchi and namul with Chinese cabbage, bean sprouts, komatsuna, and fiddlehead fern
- Hassun: simmered kugi, white tofu, mozuku vinegar (from Okinawa), assorted simmered vegetables, dashimaki tamago, pickled herring, sand liver and bamboo shoot with watercress dressing, scallion and octopus with vinegar miso, water agar jelly with plum and wolfberry
- Beef tongue: top tongue, core tongue steak, thick-cut tongue, black wagyu beef large wrapped grill, kujo green onion
- Fillet meat from Kumamoto
- Owan: new potato and red snow crab sauce
- Horumon: top mino, maruchou, shimachou
- Meat sushi: chateaubriand, horse dung uni
- Assorted platter: kameno ko (Hyogo wagyu), shinkin (Hyogo wagyu), yuusankaku (Kobe beef), lamb core (Kobe beef)
- Dessert
- Takikomi gohan (rice cooked with ingredients): fillet, red snow crab, horse dung uni, ikura
Drinks:
- Hakushu: highball, two glasses