"I'm looking forward to it." As he was walking, Hojo Shimizu suddenly sighed, "So far, Sainari District has brought me too many surprises, and I want to know now, what kind of izakaya will be like that you are going to take me to, and the place that can be chosen by Heisuke should be very unusual, right?" ”

Uesugi Heisuke smiled slightly, pointed to the front of the alley, and said, "As a poor student, I can't afford to go to those high-end restaurants, you see." ”

Hojo Shimizu looked down Heisuke's direction, and saw a white rectangular light box at the intersection not far away, with the following words written on it.

Otaya, a public liquor venue, Yakitori is only 80 yen, and it is open from 16 to 23 o'clock.

Yakitori means yakitori, and 80 yen is about 5 yuan, which is quite cheap in Osaka, the second largest city in Japan.

How cheap is it?

For example, the most famous yakitori chain in Japan, the Bird Aristocrat, sells for 298 yen for two skewers, which is equivalent to 149 yen for a single skewer.

You know, the reason why the Bird Aristocracy has the scale it is today is that its business philosophy is cheap, and their drinks, skewers, fried food, and cold dishes have been sold for 280 yen for 28 years from 1989 to 2017.

It was not until October 2017 that due to the pressure of consumption tax and rising operating costs, the bird nobles were forced to raise the price to the current 298 yen.

For this reason, the person in charge of this company also apologized on TV, and bowed violently for a while, saying that it is really not okay not to raise the price, and it is going to be a loss, I can't help everyone, and I will cause trouble to you.

If you go to the Japanese version of Dianping, it is not difficult to find that Chinese tourists' evaluation of the bird aristocracy is generally good, and there are many words such as delicious and affordable in the comments.

In short, when you travel to Japan, if you really don't know what to eat, go to the bird nobles to eat a chicken, you don't have to worry about being slaughtered, the island country is poor, the ingredients are generally expensive, and their family is cheap.

If in Japan, the bird aristocracy represents cheapness, and at the moment, this Osaya is undoubtedly the cheapest of the cheap.

Pushing the door and walking in, I found that the business of this store was really good, the time was just after seven o'clock, it was already full of customers, and the three square tables by the window were occupied, so the store guys invited Heisuke Uesugi and Uncle Shimizu to sit at the bar.

Uesugi Heisuke counted, and the bar has a total of eight single seats, facing the kitchen, and three square tables for four people by the window, and the maximum capacity of this restaurant is about 20 people.

In Japan, where everything is small and exquisite, the izakaya that can accommodate 20 customers is already quite large, and there are only four or five seats in the whole store, or there are no seats at all, and there are many standing izakaya where customers drink standing and drinking, and Uesugi Heisuke has seen a lot.

"Is beer okay?" Uesugi Heisuke didn't even look at the wine list, so he asked his uncle.

In Japan, it is customary for most drinking parties to start with beer and finish with ramen, and whether you drink hi stick or shochu in the middle of the game, it is entirely a matter of personal preference, but when you come to an izakaya, you will always order a beer for the first time.

"No problem." Uncle Qing Shui nodded, picked up the wine list in front of him, and squinted his eyes to read it.

"Boss, two beers first." Uesugi Heisuke said to the old man behind the bar, who was chopping vegetables.

The uncle was slightly chubby and his temples were white, he looked up at Esugi Heisuke with a smile and said, "We only have Asahi in the store, do customers want bottled beer or draft beer?" ”

Uesugi Heisuke pondered that since I ate roasted bird and offal boiled food today, they are both heavy dishes, so it is better to drink refreshing draft beer.

"Two draught beers, please."

In fact, the beers produced by Japan's four major beer companies, Kirin, Asahi, Suntory, and Sapporo, all have a relatively refreshing taste.

After all, in Japan, the diet is already light, and the heavy oil and spicy Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine are served, which are full of red oil, which can scare them half to death.

All in all, Sapporo's high-end brand Ebisu beer has a relatively strong taste, but the degree of richness is only between Qingdao Classic 1903 and Agutte.

Uesugi Heisuke's draft beer, also known as draft beer in China, is served in 40-liter steel vats with casks hidden under the bar and pumped out from a draught beer machine.

After waiting for about two or three minutes, two large glasses of draft beer were brought to Uesugi Heisuke and Hojo Shimizu.

The glass is printed with the word Asahi in English, which is the trademark of Asahi Beer, and there is a huge word "Dry" in the middle, which means that Asahi beer is characterized by its dry taste.

At the same time, a plate of appetizers, vinegar-pickled cucumbers and salt-boiled edamame.

The food is placed in a black conjoined diskette, verdant and delicate, not to mention the taste, the appearance can be worth the ticket price in the first place.

Appetizers are available to guests at every table, whether you eat or not, the restaurant will serve them to you, and you can't refuse, it is a compulsory consumption.

The price of appetizers is not expensive, usually three or four hundred yen, but Uesugi Heisuke looked at the handwritten menu on the wall, and the price of Otaya's appetizer is two hundred yen, which is equivalent to 13 yuan, which is relatively cheap.

In Japan, about 50% of izakaya people force their customers to consume appetizers, which is a conventional rule, and other places such as ramen restaurants and sushi restaurants do not have a similar practice.

Although most of the izakaya owners will explain that the appetizer is for fear that the guests will wait too long and be irritable, the guests who often drink alcohol all know that the appetizer is actually a seat fee charged in disguise, so that some guests do not order the food and only order a glass of wine and sit in a daze.

Uesugi Heisuke, like many classmates who mixed up with Station B, became fascinated by Japanese cuisine because of watching the drama Lonely Foodie.

But in all fairness, although the lonely gourmand is good, there is a huge flaw, because Uncle Gorou does not drink, so there is no introduction to Japanese sake culture in the whole play.

You must know that sake culture is also a very important part of Japanese cuisine, and it is not difficult for students who have been to Japan to find that Japanese people are so fond of drinking that they are addicted to alcohol.

And it's not just Japanese men who like to drink, women drink even more fiercely.

Every night, the bar streets of various cities will become extremely crowded, and men in suits and beautiful women in high-heeled dresses will crowd into all kinds of izakaya to push glasses and change lamps, and the scene is extremely lively.

According to the 2017 report of the National Tax Agency, the alcohol tax accounted for 2.1% of the total revenue of the authorities, which shows that the Japanese do not love to drink, but love to the point of madness.

At this time, Uncle Shimizu had already seen all the wine prices on the wine list.

"The price of the drinks is very good." The uncle was a little excited, raised his wine glass and said to Uesugi Heisuke: "You are in charge of ordering, I don't care about what I eat, as long as there is wine, it is enough to find such an affordable store, I must drink two more glasses tonight." ”

Boom~

Boom~

The two of them toasted and drank the cold draft beer, the white foam was delicate and smooth, the unique aroma of hops was refreshing, and the strong stimulating sensation hit the taste buds and throat.

When he put down his glass, Uesugi Heisuke and Uncle Shimizu made an extremely comfortable sound, and the expression on their faces was extremely satisfied.