Higashinari-ku, Osaka City, Higashi Kobashi
3-minute walk from Tsuruhashi Station

Established in 1981
Niryohan Tsuruhashi Main Store
8:26 AM
Start of preparations

The manager's first task is
to sweep in front of the shop. These two and a half cars
are from a famous Kyoto shop called Daiichi Asahi.

This shop itself has been around for about 40 years. The founder is deceased, but the business has been taken over,
and the original manager is now the president.

I've been here a long time too.
About 20 years. Pork bones...

We simmer the pork bones,
and then add the simmered broth to the pork and serve it.

Cleaning the tables. Bean sprouts. Remove the blackened parts. These are the seasoned eggs we prepared yesterday.

They've been marinating in the sauce for a day. There are nearly 60 to 70 of them.

Lard. Gyoza and fried rice are cooked in lard. Onion. Carrot. Preparing the ingredients for fried rice.

Lightly cooking them. Prepare the ingredients first. Cook the rice for fried rice
to a different consistency than white rice.

Mix the ingredients and rice together first. Once the order is taken,
cook and finish the dish.

Add the pork to the pork soup. Pork leg for roast pork. Cutting up the meat. Kyobashi branch, Fuse branch, Tsuruhashi main branch
preparations for a total of three branches.

70 to 80 kg in one day. If you cut into the meat after it's been cooked for a while,
it'll be really delicious.

When you cook meat,
the flavor concentrates inside. The flavor in the meat
dissolves into the soup and makes it really delicious.

The soup made from pork bones and pork. This will become the soup for the restaurant. We portion out the homemade kimchi.

(At the beginning of the business)
When the couple started the restaurant. From now on, we'll work hard to earn enough for the two of us.

They were going to call it “Niryou,” but they found out they were expecting a child at that time.

Then we'll have to work for two and a half people. Let's do our best. We decided on “two and a half people.”

(Staff) How many days' worth of soup is this? Just enough for today's lunch.

On weekdays, we make about 200 to 250 bowls. At night, we make soup for the next day and beyond.

We wrap the gyoza. We buy the gyoza skins from a noodle factory.

We use only domestic ingredients for the filling and the skin, which gives it a crispy texture. We make enough gyoza for one day's worth.

We're preparing about 80 to 90 servings (about 500 pieces) today. The staff here are all long-term employees, so we use the food for staff meals.

If it's good when you try it out as a meal, we might make it into a product.

We eat it with things like a roast pork platter delivered by the butcher. (Staff) Have you been selling meat wholesale for a long time?

That's right. It's been a long time. I think it's been nearly 40 years.

I love the two-and-a-half-carriage-long train! The roast pork was delicious! It was crazy!

Normally, if you open several branches (the taste will change). It's wonderful that they're... The pork belly dissolves into the special soy sauce sauce.

It's cut to the right size for the barbecued pork. Putting it on top of the ramen... The pork is now ready to eat!

Pickled bamboo shoots. Combining the ingredients for fried rice. (Staff) Are the cars being delivered to another store?

Yes, that's right. What are you delivering? Meat, gyoza filling, homemade kimchi.

Opens at 11:00. Counter and table seating. Chashu ramen set meal (regular) 1080 yen
Ramen set meal (regular) 900 yen

Fried chicken set (regular) 1270 yen
Roast pork set (regular) 1320 yen

Hanchan fried rice set (regular) 1030 yen
Fried rice set meal (regular) 1190 yen

Gyoza (dumplings) 300 yen per person
Gyoza set meal 150 yen (for those ordering noodles or a set meal)

Ramen (noodles) 850 yen (regular size)
Ramen with pickled bamboo shoots 970 yen (regular size)

Chashu Tamago Ramen (medium) 1150 yen
Chashu Menma Tamago Ramen (medium) 1270 yen

Yaki-han (fried rice) small (half-size) 360 yen
Large fried rice 880 yen

Small fried pork 550 yen
Small fried chicken 540 yen. As soon as it opens, customers start coming in one after another.

Ordered the Hanchan fried rice set meal (soy sauce ramen). The soy sauce ramen, the most popular item on the menu, is served all at once.

The noodles are added. The fried rice is finished. Gyoza. Straighten the noodles. Bean sprouts. Roasted pork.

Green onion. Soft-boiled seasoned egg. Soy sauce ramen (with egg topping). Waiting for the food while nibbling on homemade kimchi.

Soy sauce ramen arrives. Sprinkle pepper on top. Sipping the noodles. Straight noodles with pork-based soy sauce soup.

The pork belly, slowly stewed until it's meltingly tender, is delicious. I wolf down the fried rice in one go.

Gyoza (for two people). Chashu ramen. (Staff) The speed at which they serve it is really fast.

It's like our lifeline. We don't have much time for lunch. Egg ramen.

Salt ramen, miso ramen. You can choose between lean and fatty pork for the chashu.

If you don't order anything, it will be randomly selected. I ordered soy sauce ramen today.

I've been coming here a lot recently. I originally lived in Kyoto. I often come here for the Kyoto-style soy sauce ramen.

11:52 Ordering the fried chicken set (miso). Fried chicken. You come about four days in two weeks.

I think that's quite a lot. (Staff) Is there anything you'd recommend? I like miso.

I'm also a miso person. I've been coming here for a long time. I'm from Kyoto, so...

I can't stop eating it! Roast pork. A customer who often comes to the store. It's delicious when you eat it.

It's addictive. It's like that's what it's all about. It's somehow nostalgic. Simple salt ramen.

Chashu ramen set meal, soy sauce, regular, 1080 yen. A lot of melt-in-the-mouth chashu.

A little thick pork-back-fat soy sauce ramen. Fried rice set meal (medium salt), 1190 yen.

A simple salt ramen with the aroma of sesame. A traditional fried rice seasoned with sesame oil. We followed the popular ramen shop that has been loved for a long time in Tsuruhashi, Osaka.

The “Chinese Restaurant” in Nara Prefecture. Regular customers who walk through the shop curtain immediately after it opens.

The restaurant is bustling with working men. The customers come for the hearty Chinese food. The specialty is the extra-large fried chicken with a powerful impact!

The owner, who started out in Chinese cuisine at the age of 19, handles orders with a nimble touch and a deft toss of the wok!

Cheap, fast, tasty!
The work of a town Chinese chef who supports people with his cooking. A hearty Chinese lunch box with plenty of food!

Lunch set meal → Various types of ramen can be changed.
There's a rush of orders for the unbeatable Chinese lunch!

It's salt ramen, right? Spicy miso ramen.
Miso ramen.

Lunch set meal A → ramen and fried rice, 750 yen. A hot and filling chanpon with a thick sauce.

Attractive town Chinese cuisine!
A lineup that will satisfy you! The by far most popular fried chicken is an astonishingly large size!

It really is (a lot of food).
You'll be full. The best cost performance at 250 yen for 6 handmade gyoza!

We followed a Chinese restaurant
that has been loved by the locals for a long time! Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture.

Chinese Restaurant 8:42
A day in the life of a Chinese chef. Fried chicken (There are) about 60 pieces of fried chicken.

There are 20 pieces in there now, so
I'll fry them in three batches. For the set meal at lunchtime.

Roasted pork. (Staff) It's huge! That's right. It's like half sold.

This is the stuffing for the fried rice. It's easier if you mix them together like this. Liver...

Fresh meat delivered by the supplier. Chicken for fried chicken. We have a delivery order in. Fried rice 500 yen, sesame dumplings (3 pieces) 400 yen.

Spring rolls (3 pieces) 450 yen. Fried chicken (6 pieces) 730 yen. Stamina rice bowl 730 yen.

Meal rice 600 yen. Preparing the Mapo Tofu Bowl. Yakisoba with sauce 630 yen.

Chinese rice bowl 630 yen. Fried bean sprouts 630 yen. Ma-bo rice bowl 680 yen.

Four lunch orders. First, the gyoza set. Heading out to deliver freshly cooked white rice and Chinese side dishes with plenty of volume.

It's a lunch box from a Chinese restaurant in town that's incredibly attractive... Chinese lunch box, 950 yen.

(Staff) Are they handmade from scratch? As for the gyoza, preparations for the opening are steadily progressing. Opening soon.

The beautifully wrapped gyoza are ready! Opening at 11:30. Open for business. Waiting for the shop curtain to be hung. Customers who had been waiting in their cars enter the shop.

Lunch set A: Ramen and fried rice, 750 yen. Lunch set C: Fried chicken, ramen, and rice, 850 yen.

There is a tatami room to the left when you enter. L-shaped counter and table seats. Gyoza (6 pieces), 250 yen. Yakimeshi (fried rice), 500 yen.

The ramen in the lunch set meal can be changed to tonkotsu or spicy miso, etc.

Please change lunch set F to fried rice. Change to fried rice. Miso ramen.

Thank you. The freshly cooked fried rice arrives. Cooking the ramen with spicy miso.

Thank you. I'll handle the orders myself until the delivery returns. The spicy miso is for the fried chicken, right?

This is miso ramen. Cooking the chanpon. I'd like the Tonkotsu Ramen with lunch set C, please.

I'd like the noodles a little hard, please. I'll make sure to taste it thoroughly.

I'll thicken it with potato starch. Chanpon, 700 yen. Fried chicken and tonkotsu ramen, please.

Hot chanpon with lots of thickened ingredients. Tantanmen (noodles in spicy sauce), 630 yen.

Salt ramen. A mouthful of extra-large fried chicken. The fried chicken, which has been soaked in pork bone soup, goes well with white rice. The flavor has soaked into the batter, and it looks delicious...

I usually order the lunch set C with pork bone soup. Well, I change my ramen order quite often.

It's really filling. It fills you up. Making Tenshindon (天津飯) 630 yen

For the fried chicken, we only deep-fry it once instead of twice, unlike blanching the Chinese cabbage, so that we can serve it quickly.

We've got everything ready, but sometimes we still can't make it in time. They're getting hungry. If we serve them early,

the staff (everyone) eats a lot. I thought we'd all be full after going there since everyone came.

As I thought, it's mostly men. How many people? Yes, welcome! Welcome! G-set soy sauce char siu ramen, spicy miso ramen

For the pork bowl. Thank you for waiting. This is the spicy miso ramen. For the fried rice,

For the gyoza. Please wait for the gyoza. The salt ramen with fried rice is large.

The prawn tempura. The gyoza arrives. Just the fried chicken later. It's too big... Fried chicken 730 yen

Everyone ordered a set menu and shared the fried chicken. It's the soy sauce ramen, right?

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