📍 A healing eatery hidden on Chifeng Street - Inamachi Family Restaurant ✨
Hello everyone! Today, I'm taking you to a super healing Japanese eatery! 💕 Hidden on Chifeng Street in Taipei, "Inamachi Family Restaurant" is not just a restaurant; it’s practically a warm harbor for urban dwellers! 🏠
💫 A dining space with great atmosphere
The moment you push the door open... surprise! 🎉 Although the space is small (only 12 seats), the owner has created a super authentic Japanese vibe! With wooden decor ✨ warm lighting 🌟 and Japanese fabric curtains 🎋, it will truly make you feel like you’ve instantly traveled to a corner of Japan. Even though there aren’t many seats, the cozy and compact feel adds to the homely atmosphere! 🥰
🍱 Must-try dishes revealed!
👑 Beef and Potato Stew Set Meal
This dish is the star of the restaurant! 💯 Tender beef paired with flavorful potatoes, each bite is full of happiness! 🥔 The sweet soy sauce broth with steaming hot white rice is just a perfect match! 😋 The side dishes are also carefully prepared:
⭐️ Nanban Fried Chicken Set Meal
Crispy on the outside and tender on the inside fried chicken, drizzled with special tartar sauce... OMG! This is so indulgent! 🍗 The sweet, sour, and savory flavors are just irresistible. The side dishes are equally abundant; you’ll definitely leave feeling full! 🤤
🍮 Japanese Custard Caramel Pudding
Attention dessert lovers! 💝 This pudding, made with rich Hokkaido Tokachi fresh cream, has a level of creaminess that is off the charts! The melt-in-your-mouth texture paired with intense caramel is the perfect ending to your meal! ✨
📌 Useful tips
💰 Very affordable prices!
With such high quality, the prices are super friendly; great value! 👍
🌟 Super attentive service
The staff are very friendly, making you feel warmly welcomed as if you have returned home! 🥰
🚇 Extremely convenient transportation
⏰ Business information
💝 Summary
Inamachi Family Restaurant truly is a warm little store that makes you want to visit again and again! 👍 Whether you're coming alone to relax or gathering a group for a meal, it’s perfect! Each dish exudes sincerity, making you feel as if you’re having a meal at grandma’s house! 🏠✨
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✨ Little tip: It’s suggested to avoid peak dining times, or you might have to wait! It’s best to come before 12:00 or right when dinner opens at 5:30 PM!
▶ Luxurious Chef's Special $1499 ◀
➡️ Pickled Three Flavors
➡️ Cod Liver Seaweed Fry: At the bottom is a piece of fried seaweed, topped with cod liver, lettuce, and fish roe, making for a very special appetizer. The crispy texture combined with the soft cod liver is surprisingly fitting!
➡️ Seasonal Sashimi Black Tuna Platter: The standout black tuna has a refreshing lemon flavor when tasted on its own, and eating it with the sashimi sauce allows you to enjoy the rich oiliness of the tuna, which melts in your mouth. The red snapper has a chewier texture, while the red shrimp is very rich and sweet, clearly fresh! The scallops are also very tender and fresh. Interestingly, besides shredded radish, there are green grapes, which are completely different from what you’d find in Okinawa—not salty, with a smooth texture.
➡️ Sea Urchin Mini Seafood Jewel Box: This jewel box is filled with an abundance of ingredients! It’s a small bowl packed with high-quality, delicious ingredients! Sea urchin, tuna, salmon, squid, fish roe, shrimp, herring roe, shiso leaves, seaweed, and cucumbers, eaten with soy sauce and wasabi, is truly satisfying! Halfway through, you can add real sea bream broth, which is rich and flavorful, and eating it with rice transforms it into a delightful rice soup! The broth not only has a strong sea bream flavor but also a rich celery taste~ Plus, both the broth and rice can be refilled!!
➡️ Matsuba Crab Vegetable Tempura: Includes Matsuba crab, red pepper, zucchini, and enoki mushrooms. The fried Matsuba crab remains tender, with a crispy exterior complementing the soft crab meat. The zucchini is very juicy, but unfortunately soft. The enoki mushrooms were surprising; I initially thought they were chanterelles, but they're actually enoki mushrooms!!
➡️ Uji Matcha Pudding with Kintoki: The pudding is incredibly soft, with a rich yet light texture, topped with finely ground matcha powder. Served alongside cornflakes and red bean paste, the red bean paste is thick yet retains a bit of texture!
➡️ Shizuoka Matcha (Hot): The flavor is milder, making it a perfect cup of hot tea to enjoy after a hearty meal, very comforting.
➡️ Wine Pairing $799
▶ Grilled Star Eel $180 ◀
The star eel is prepared sweet, with soft bones that can be eaten directly; the texture is a bit more chewy compared to the usual eel!
▶ Spicy Cod Roe Chicken Roll $280 ◀
The chicken strip is wrapped in spicy cod roe sauce, with a layer of shiso leaves on the outside, followed by a coating of fried batter! The chicken has a bit more chew, but this combination is unique—you can taste the refreshing aroma of the shiso leaves along with the savory sweetness of the cod roe.
Located near the roundabout is the private tasting restaurant.
It is part of the private tasting curry series.
The private tasting series emphasizes pet-friendly dining.
It offers a variety of dishes, including skewers, Japanese curry, gastropub fare, and izakaya-style dishes.
I haven’t eaten curry in a long time, and since I hadn’t tried this place yet, I decided to have a taste.
On the weekend, I was lucky to go at 6 PM and didn’t have to wait in line.
If you come later, you will need to wait.
There are two floors in total.
However, the seating is a bit densely arranged.
The staff will ask if you need an introduction.
The introduction process is very detailed.
You order using a QR code.
I happened to see that they had the recently popular shaking rabbit dessert (it was chocolate flavor that day).
The shaking rabbit set is part of the couple's meal and includes everything we wanted to eat.
So, we just ordered it (๑•̀ᄇ•́)و ✧
This completely solved our decision-making problem.
You can choose the sweetness for the black tea (no sugar/slightly sweet).
Just choose based on what you usually drink.
It’s delicious black tea!
The wine-steamed clams.
The first one I ate had a strong wine flavor,
but the others didn’t.
Maybe that particular clam had a bit more wine in it, haha.
The clams were fresh and plump.
The portion was sufficient (about 15 clams).
The price for ordering it separately was $120, which is quite reasonable.
Private tasting curry with fried chicken + spiral egg.
The curry is served separately.
You can decide whether to mix it with rice or not. ٩۹(๑•̀ω•́ ๑)۶
The fried chicken was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside; the skin wasn’t so hard that you couldn’t bite it.
The portion given was also generous.
The curry tasted sweet.
Nyonya green curry chicken + spiral egg.
This curry sauce was generously poured over a full plate.
It was slightly spicy on its own.
If you usually eat spicier food, you can add spicy butter.
Shaking rabbit dessert.
Today it was chocolate flavor.
It tastes like a light chocolate milk flavor,
but it can get a bit overwhelming toward the end.
You can refill white rice, soup, and curry,
so you don’t need to worry about not getting enough to eat.
Overall, the set meal was quite reasonable.
However, you don’t need to order just for the shaking rabbit dessert.
For our appetite, ordering the curry separately was more than enough to eat, lol.
#Vegetarian
The renowned barbecue brand Sen Sen Barbecue has finally arrived in Kaohsiung! The new store in Kaohsiung continues the brand's consistent high-quality standards while embracing a light luxury gold theme, creating a dining space filled with modern fashion. Every corner exudes an upscale atmosphere, making one feel as if they are in a high-end restaurant.
This time, we chose the highly popular Must-Try Gold Set Menu ($3,380), which includes two themed coasters and a fun four-panel photo booth experience.
The standout specialties of the set menu are definitely not to be missed, including the gold-leaf sushi and the wood-smoked beef short ribs. Among them, the gold-leaf sushi is the highlight, made with premium ingredients—A5 Wagyu beef and Hokkaido scallops, which are grilled on-site and finally adorned with gold leaf, perfectly presenting a dual feast for the eyes and palate. The fragrant fat of the Wagyu and the sweetness of the scallops blend perfectly, delivering an astonishing bite.
Another dish, the wood-smoked beef short ribs, captivates the taste buds with its rich smoky aroma. The meat is tender and the flavor is complex, showcasing the essence of artisan barbecue.
The restaurant also offers a five-star buffet, featuring an array of rich side dishes, while the dessert section is eye-catching, particularly the French desserts, which are as exquisite as those from professional patisseries. Each one is irresistible!
Sen Sen Barbecue in Kaohsiung not only maintains the brand's high quality but also incorporates various upscale elements, allowing guests to feel the thoughtfulness and sincerity through sight, taste, and experience. Barbecue lovers absolutely cannot miss it.
You cannot make a reservation; you must arrive in groups to be seated after ordering your meals. The business is doing very well, so be mindful of that, or you will end up waiting a long time. The restaurant, like those in Japan, is very full, and since it specializes in teppanyaki cuisine, there is a bit of oil and smoke, but it is quite clean.
As for the dishes, they mainly focus on Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki, with different flavors and extra ingredients available. I noticed that people generally order one each for themselves. Personally, I find it can be a bit rich and heavy in flavor, so it is more suitable to share among several people and then order some other dishes individually.
On a weekday night, I hurried into the restaurant just before closing time 😂
I thought I might not be able to get in, but they kindly allowed me in, haha.
【Atmosphere inside the restaurant】
The interior had counter seating with the kitchen right in front, but it didn't bother me too much, and I was able to focus on the food! It was a Japanese-style place, and the restaurant was clean!
【Food evaluation】
From three main dishes like curry and mapo tofu, you can choose from various ingredients like pork, beef, and fish. The prices were surprisingly low for bowl dishes and there were many options, so I had high expectations, but the taste wasn't particularly exceptional; it felt like a typical meal for college students! 😂
I thought it tasted like something I could make at home, but since it’s cheap and there are plenty of choices, I might consider going back again if I don't have anything specific I want to eat!
When Sukiya first opened in Taiwan, it indeed caused quite a sensation. At that time, I ate there quite often because the value for money was very high; for just 99 NT dollars, you could get a bowl of beef rice with green onions and a hot spring egg, along with a bowl of miso soup. It was also when I started to engage with this culture that I realized that in Japan, most of the patrons in this type of restaurant are older men. 🤣
Back to the food itself, I used to think that Sukiya was quite generous with their ingredients, but now, due to the rising costs of ingredients, the portion of beef is no longer what it used to be, and the amount of sauce is also quite little. It’s easy to finish the meal and find it dry, and the marbling of the beef is just average. Moreover, most of the Sukiya locations are now a bit old, and the tableware is made of melamine, giving it a somewhat retro feel. 🤣
However, if you are worried about the value for money, you can order the lunch special, which includes a bowl of beef rice with a hot spring egg, a bowl of miso soup, and a croquette for just 129 NT dollars. It’s quite suitable for budget-conscious diners.
The Yakitori Rhapsody offers seasonal yakitori set menus and is located on the second floor of Chun Dazhi near Miramar in Dazhi, featuring a very comfortable and upscale environment. The a la carte chicken skewers are robust and hearty, with a crispy and delicious exterior and perfectly cooked interior, striving for the ultimate taste at the critical point just before turning black and bitter. The dishes are fine dining level of exquisite deliciousness, presented French style with Japanese cuisine, showcasing an impressive fusion of the two.
The Nest of the Barred Owl is a chain Japanese pork cutlet restaurant that I have always felt has stable quality, especially their red curry pork cutlet, which is fragrant and spicy, and satisfying every time I eat it. However, this time when I visited their branch located in the Rende Teri House, I wanted to try something different, and ended up feeling a bit disappointed.
This time I ordered a baked dish, and to be honest, the taste was a bit ordinary. After baking, it lost the aromatic qualities that the red curry should have had, all covered up by the cheese. In fact, it wasn’t particularly delicious on its own, and the overall texture was a bit dry. I don’t know if it was because it was baked a bit longer, but the overall performance was not outstanding and didn't quite meet my expectations for "The Nest of the Barred Owl." However, the sweet potato balls I tried this time were a pleasant surprise. They had a crispy exterior and a soft, chewy interior, with a light sweetness - very delicious! Although the price is slightly higher, the taste is worth trying.
In terms of service, this restaurant performed well. The waitstaff were friendly, and they were very polite during checkout, making the experience comfortable. The dining environment is similar to other branches – clean and bright, and the convenient location in Teri House makes it a good option for a quick meal.
Overall, this time’s baked dish slightly lowered my rating, but the other classic dishes in the restaurant are still worth recommending. If I come again, I will likely obediently order the red curry pork cutlet.