{"id":2775,"date":"2017-02-16T18:36:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T09:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2017-02-16\/2775"},"modified":"2017-02-16T18:36:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T09:36:59","slug":"enjoying-delicious-nankotsu-at-torikizoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2017-02-16\/2775","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying Delicious Nankotsu at Torikizoku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 3200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nTasty Skewer of Chicken and Scallion<\/span>\nat a local Torikizoku (\u9ce5\u8cb4\u65cf) restaurant\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

I've recently been taking a fancy to yakitori<\/a><\/i> (grilled skewered chicken),\nand especially the crunchy nankotsu<\/i> variety.<\/p>\n\n

“<\/span>Torikizoku<\/a>”<\/span> is a chain<\/span> of yakitori<\/i> restaurants whose thing is that everything on\nthe menu is 280 yen (plus tax, making each item currently about US$2.60), so the menu is just a list<\/span> of items.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 40mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 4000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nTwo Items to Start With<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

Any drink is “<\/span>one item”<\/span>, and this includes a normal<\/span> serving of Suntory Premium Malts beer (seen on my blog in “<\/span>A Visit<\/span> to Suntory\u2019s Kyoto Beer Brewery<\/a>”<\/span>), making the price comparable\nto the cost of a can<\/span> in a convenience<\/span> store, instead of the about-double price a restaurant<\/span> normally charges. It's a wonderful<\/span>\nvalue for a tasty<\/span> beer, but even better is the Octoberfest-class jug of Kinmugi\n(\u91d1\u9ea6)<\/span><\/a> seen above. It seems<\/span> to be about a liter,<\/span> and is the same $2.60 price as the Premium Malts despite being about twice\nthe size, because the relative proportions of the ingredients falls outside Japan's legal definition of “<\/span>beer”<\/span>, so it's taxed much\nless than “<\/span>beer”<\/span>. Just as tasty.<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nIndeed<\/span>\n“<\/span>Enjoy Rich Taste in Relaxing Time”<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

The bowl of cabbage to nibble on with your chicken is also $2.60, which is perhaps steep for a bowl<\/span> of cabbage, but\nunlike other items, this one is bottomless so you have it refilled as often as you like.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 2000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nWave Two<\/span>\na salad and some chicken sausages\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

All the meat items come in pairs, on skewers, so the two sausages above are $2.60 for the pair.<\/p>\n\n

As you are done with each skewer, you put it in a bamboo<\/span> receptacle on the table...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nOne Down<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 48mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 5000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nMore<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nChicken and Scallion<\/span>\nThree servings (6 skewers)\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nNankotsu<\/span>\nFour servings (8 skewers)\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

These patterns repeat, with the occasional other item thrown in. I tend to<\/span> stop eating nankotsu<\/i> when they run out.<\/p>\n\n

“<\/span>Nankotsu”<\/span> is cartilage, and in this case, they're chicken knees. Sounds yucky, but sooo<\/i> tasty.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 5000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nEnd of the Meal<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I've recently been taking a fancy to yakitori (grilled skewered chicken), and especially the crunchy nankotsu variety.<\/p>

\"Torikizoku\" is a chain of yakitori restaurants whose thing is that everything on the menu is 280 yen (plus tax, making each item currently about US$2.60), so the menu is just a list of items.<\/p>

Any drink is \"one item\", and this includes a normal serving of Suntory Premium Malts beer (seen on my blog in \"A Visit to Suntory\u2019s Kyoto Beer Brewery\"), making the price comparable to the cost of a can in a convenience store, instead of the about-double price a [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}