Taiwan-ryori Genki-sabo — Restaurant in Osaka

The wafting aroma of five spice envelops you as soon as you walk into the shop. The food we ordered was all delicious and jasmine tea brought back memories of childhood sitting at a large round table covered in a white cloth, pouring, passing dishes around with a lazy susan. We ordered lu ruo fan with boiled dumplings and niu rou mian with jasmine tea set for ¥2550 and ate pretty well. The beef noodles had a surprising amount of beef in it for being Japan, including some tendon which was delicious. To be honest the big beef chunks were a bit tough and soup could have been salted a bit more (the herb taste was quite strong in a good way though). The food tasted so homemade and the flavors were so complex and deep. I thought the price was great, too. I’m not Taiwanese but I used to eat at Taiwanese places in California. But to me this was the most authentic Taiwanese I’ve had in Japan. I really respect that they don’t cater to the boba craze and focus on serving delicious...

Friendly and small taiwanese cuisine inspired restaurant. The japanese owner can speak some mandarin with an accent. Came here with family and 2 small kids.

We ordered egg tomato noodles which is great with a bowl of rice. Beef noodles which has a herbal taste with hints of chinese 5 spices was not bad - i think braised beef needed to marinate in salt and spices longer, but soup was overall good. Maybe a bit more star anise would be better.

Hot Milk tea was fantastic and so was the tofu pudding dessert with pearls, taro mochi, sweet soup. Costs us 6400 yen which is reasonable for this amount of food. Highly...

I have never been so warmly welcomed in my life : the couple who runs this restaurant is of incredible gentleness and kindness. It is a Japanese couple, but the man has studied for several years in Taiwan and fell in love with the Taiwanese cuisine and traditional way of healing people with plants, so he imported this know-how to Osaka. The food was great, there are also vegetarian options (just ask the lady), and the atmosphere is very cozy : it feels a bit like home. The homemade umeshu (plum wine) was exquisite and the overall price was more than reasonable. I definitely recommend...