Umehatchi
- January 27, 2004
- Rated 4 of 5 by
david from brooklyn, New York
Umehatchi, along with all the good restaurants in Japan, is a 'senmon-ten' (specialty shop), where the customers, chefs, and waitresses all know what the order is going to be, and generally if this is not the case, the food will suffer. The sushi chef does not make soba, and the soba chef does not make takoyaki (bits of octopus cooked in balls of dough).
Umehachi makes tonkatsu (breaded fried pork), and it's pretty damn good. Okay, there is a bit of variety in how you may eat the pork, either on rice or straight with a side of shredded cabbage (there is always shredded cabbage served with tonkatsu, and science has determined there is a beneficial chemical reaction that occurs with the combination). And while Umehachi boasts high-quality pork from Kagoshima, the price remains extremely reasonable compared with other Tonkatsu shops in Osaka.
From journal Osaka, a city firmly rooted in Japan