[Niigata] Recommended soul food & local gourmet selection

Niigata is famous for its rice, local sake, seafood, and of course, a wide variety of other local delicacies! Some of these include rare dishes such as "Italian" and "Tare Katsudon". This time, we will introduce some famous local gourmet restaurants in Niigata City, which is easily accessible!

"Italian"

In 1960, it was born in Furumachi with the slogan "I started a little unusual fried noodles", and the style of eating fried noodles with a fork became popular.

● Offer a surprising combination of yakisoba "Mikazuki Bandai Store"

"Mikazuki Bandai store" is the birthplace of "Italian", which is made of homemade thick noodles and noodles, fried cabbage in fried fried fried noodles, and a special sauce. The homemade meat sauce, which features the sour taste of tomatoes and the sweet taste of onions, is a surprising match for the sauce-flavored Chinese noodles. In addition to the classic meat sauce flavor, about 7 kinds of sauces are prepared here. It is also good to order in the mood of the day. Takeout is also possible.

■ Mikazuki Bandai Store

Address: 1-6-1 Bandai, Chuo-ku, Niigata Bus Center Building 2F
Opening hours: 10-20
Closed: No Closed
Access: 10-minute walk from JR Niigata Station
Parking: None

"Tare and katsudon"

"Tonkatsu Taro" The first shop owner began when he produced a cutlet tangled in soy sauce sauce sauce with a hint of cutlets. Since then, the style of putting sauce cutlets on rice without being clapped with eggs has become a staple.

● Niigata katsudon classic "Tonkatsu Taro"

The "Tonkatsu Taro" sauce katsudon, which is fried with a sprinkling of fine-grained breadcrumbs and entwined with soy sauce-based sauce, is a cutlet with a good stain of sweet and spicy sauce, and the rice proceeds. In addition to this menu, you can enjoy the boasting cutlets for 1520 yen, "Tonkatsu set meal", 1360 yen, and "Katsu curry" 970 yen.

■ Tonkatsu Taro

Address: 6-973 Furumachi-dori, Chuo-ku, Niigata
Hours: 11:30-14:30, 17:00-Ends as the ingredients run out
Closed: Third Wednesday, Thursday
Access: 5 minutes walk from the bus Furumachi Hanamachi entrance
Parking: None

"Tochio's Ablage"/Nagaoka Region

Huge oil-fried, about 20cm long and about 3cm thick. Plump-finished twice-fried, the oil-fried is savoury and savored. It's a local gourmet that has continued since the Edo period.

-A store loved for half a century "Yasubee Honten"

"Yasubee Honten" is a tavern that has been loved by the local area for half a century since its inception. This deep-fried dish is a popular menu with the sweet taste of selected soybeans that will give you an appetite. It is good to have it simple, but we also recommend an arrangement with green onion miso and natto for frying. In addition, here, there are plenty of menus other than oil-fried, such as fried chicken and falling tuna. You can enjoy drinking and serving from the daytime.

■ Yasubee Honten

Address: 1-2-5 Higashi-Odori, Chuo-ku, Niigata
Open: 11:30 to 21:30 LO
Closed: No Closed
Access: 2 minutes from JR Niigata Station
Parking: None

"Hegisoba"/Uonuma, Ojiya region

The traditional industry of Uonuma, the good soba of the throat, which uses the funori used for the puffery used for the gluing of silk textiles, which is served in a vessel called "hegi".

● Sticking with the material "Echigo Hegi Soba Ikiya"

Echigo Hegi Soba Ikiya serves soba noodles made with carefully selected ingredients, such as buckwheat flour from Sado and Hokkaido, and soy sauce from Murakami and Sado. One of the most popular dishes is a set that includes soba noodles made with funori seaweed from Aomori Prefecture and tempura made with 5 to 7 types of seasonal local products. In addition to the fragrant hegi soba noodles, the tempura is made with rice flour from the prefecture, giving it an elegant taste.

■ Echigo Hegi Soba Ikiya

Address: 4-12-20 Oumi, Chuo-ku, Niigata, 1st floor DEKKY401
Hours: 11-15: 30 (LO), 17-19: 30 (LO)
Holds: 1st, 3rd, 5th Wednesday
Access: 12 minutes from JR Niigata Station to Niigata Kotsu Bus in front of City Hall, immediately before Kamioumi
Parking: 1200 cars

Local gourmet of Niigata that has been loved since ancient times!
In Niigata, which has the fifth largest area in the whole country, there are traditional local gourmets in each region. Do you want to taste it while feeling the history of each area?

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