Kushikatsu Daruma - Janjan — Restaurant in Osaka

Before the pandemic, these skewer restaurants were unique because they had the shared ‘sauce’ tray. You would get deep fried foods on a stick, dip into the tray, and then have twenty signs telling you not to double-dip.

They even sold cabbage so you could scoop extra sauce out and dump it on your half-eaten stick of food.

Now? Well the sauce is in a squeeze bottle. You can still order cabbage to round out the meal, because otherwise you’re ordering deep fried meat and cheese. But there’s nothing particularly special about it, and it’s pretty expensive… we’re talking about 100-200 yen per skewer, and I find that most people can easily eat 10+ skewers.

They take a variety of payments and offer an English menu. Staff is used to dealing with non-Japanese speakers. This particular location had basically no line on a weekend afternoon, and has a ton of seating (both counter and tables). There are 4 restaurants in this chain within 5 min of each other, so I’d recommend walking around and seeing which has the...

Good kushikatsu but felt like it was way overpriced compared to other shops in the area. There were a lot less packed restaurants with the same food, but we figured this place would be good since there was quite a bit of people. Service was good as expected, but unfortunately I didn’t feel like I got my money’s worth. Maybe if they lowered the price of the 動物園前セット, I wouldn’t have...

The food is good, we visited their shop at Shinsaibashi before and the quality remains. The staff are nice to foreigners.

The only minor issue is at the shop opposite to this restaurant there is a probably staff of another shop which very hostile to tourists, while I was standing out the shop tidying up my bag, he kept waving at us in a bid to push me and my family away in a very...