Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan｜Izumiya

I love it! Very Japanese! Not only the food was great, but the environment too! Even though the menu is all in Japanese characters, the staff lady was very kind to explain the menu to me. Very nice indeed! I would dare to say that the special dish here is the Miso Sauce bathed Tonkatsu, that’s what I understood from the staff lady, and it was delicious!

It seemed to be a famous miso cutlet restaurant and was very crowded. The inside of the store is very spacious. I wanted to try a lot of different things, so I ordered the mixed fries B (1800 yen) and the fried chicken set meal (1100 yen). Miso cutlet was a very unusual fried cutlet with miso inside. The taste was like my favorite rich miso cutlet. The shrimp in the fried shrimp were very large and magnificent, and the cheese and fried squid were cut into easy-to-eat pieces, and there were two pieces each, so it was very filling. I felt a little heartburn after eating, partly because the batter was so thick and partly because I ate too much of it. Next time I won't be too greedy and will try the miso cutlet set meal or the fillet miso cutlet set meal (2 pieces).

Miso cutlet is very delicious. The meat itself is probably coated with miso sauce and fried. There is miso sauce between the meat and batter, and the miso sauce is quite hot. I feel that 1300 yen for a small side dish, pickles, miso soup, and rice is quite expensive. The ingredients for miso soup are also included.