Shinobuan Namba Parks — Restaurant in Osaka

Food was good but the Indian service staff was bad. We asked for soba yu and about the salt. She pointed to the soba dipping sauce when we asked for soba yu and told us that the salt was not for the soba yu but it’s for the tempura.

We were not served soba yu until we asked another waiter for it.

When we were making payment, the Indian waitress kept glancing at us and showed us a side eye. We thought that it was incredibly rude of her to do that - there was no service recovery for her mistake and she even dared to show us a face when she was the one giving us the wrong...

Really good cold soba and tempura (very very light and crispy batter, maybe one of the best tempura I’ve had in Asia). Interesting and satisfying to eat Tempura with different types of salt rather than a sauce. Tried their 4 types of sake, very interesting to taste the difference depending on the variety and mix of rice wine. Very good value, probably half the price of what I would pay in Singapore or HK for an...

Food is fantastic. The soba noodle is the real deal. I’m not terribly fond of the duck meat (sorry!) but the tempura is to die for - especially the daikon! I didn’t experience poor service, although I could see the staff was very heavily stretched. I don’t think it’s fair to fault them for not providing additional sauce though - it’s not...