驚異の注文率９０％！至高の麻婆豆腐求めて奈良県民が押し寄せる行列町中華丨Japanese Street Food

驚異の注文率９０％！至高の麻婆豆腐求めて奈良県民が押し寄せる行列町中華丨Japanese Street Food

It’s delicious! A popular spot where mapo tofu lovers gather
“Chinese Restaurant Seiten” It became the clear blue sky of my heart Nara, Japan Right next to the station
Inside the Higashimuki Shopping Arcade Opened in 2013
Chinese Restaurant Seiten Known as “The Chinese Restaurant Where Mapo Tofu Lovers Gather!!”
You can taste the signature dish meticulously crafted by the owner, a mapo tofu enthusiast. Total 17 seats: 5 counter seats, 12 table seats 8:30
Prep begins Staff) How much rice do you cook? About 2 sho (lit. 2 liters).
I’m a bit busy right now. 2 sho might not be enough. This is 8 cups (0.8 sho). (2 sho) That should be just about right. Wash the vegetables. Original Sichuan-style
Sichuan pepper-infused mapo tofu and premium mapo We basically serve two types of mapo tofu for lunch: one using Yamato sansho and one using original sansho We prepare both types of tofu. The premium version
uses tofu made with Nara Prefecture’s “Sachiyutaka Soybeans”. Staff) So mapo tofu is still the most popular? Yes, that’s right. Pretty much everyone
comes to our shop to eat mapo tofu, right? About 90% of our customers
probably order it. Staff) I never imagined there’d be four kinds of mapo tofu.
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Probably no other Chinese restaurant
does that, right? I think even two kinds would be pretty rare. But if I had to choose, Our shop gets customers who love mapo tofu, so if someone loves mapo tofu or knows their own taste in mapo, I guess it’s okay if they just try to find it.
We have four kinds. When winter comes, it’s definitely oyster season, so Starting around mid-November,
our mapo tofu with oysters Our mapo tofu with XO sauce is super popular. We usually serve it from now until around March in spring. Staff) So for the coming season? Yes
For the coming season It’s actually around late October
when it suddenly gets cold quite a few regular customers
start asking, “Are the oysters ready yet?” here and there, so it seems like everyone looks forward to them every year. We basically use kombu dashi for our menu items. Chinese food tends to have a reputation for being heavy, you know?
But We use kombu dashi to make it light and refreshing, you could say. We try to make our Chinese food light. Sometimes customers even say “It’s not heavy,” I hear comments like that here and there, I think it’s probably because we use kombu dashi.
That’s my guess. Staff) It’s quite rare, or rather I think it’s probably almost unheard of Using kombu dashi to cook and serving Chinese cuisine Probably not. Kombu dashi Chicken bone broth and kombu dashi
Make the soup Staff) For the kombu dashi, using water,
is it usually left for about a day? Half a day to a day Staff) Your mother? (My mother) used kombu water
when she cooked. Maybe that image
was somewhere in my mind too. I wasn’t really conscious of it,
but talking about it now, I realize that. Shaoxing wine, pepper Oyster sauce Taste and adjust Salt Water-dissolved potato starch Add beaten egg Add sesame oil
Soup complete The shop owner’s wife The tofu shop delivers He’s the current president. The president
delivers every morning. As for keywords for our shop, Sansho pepper
is used quite a lot in various dishes, so Regular dishes Even in Chinese cuisine, where it’s not typically used, they sometimes use a little sansho pepper.
It happens quite often. Staff) When was the restaurant founded? This location is 12 years old. It’s been 12 years since we started.
We’ll have been here for 10 years this March. Before that, we were somewhere close by. It was like a food stall village.
We started out in a corner of a place like a food court. We moved here after about two years. We’ve been operating here ever since. For about 10 years I never had any desire to be independent at all Not at all
Everyone around me said working for someone else was a better fit for my personality
My parents said the same thing I figured if I was going to do it around age 35,
I wanted to try it at least once. Right around that time, I got married to my wife and found out she was pregnant. If I happened to bring it up at that timing, my wife would just grumble and say
“If you’re going to do it, just do it already.” So I said, “Alright, I’ll do it.” I just did it
Because I didn’t want to mess it up I worked my ass off It’s kind of like what we have here now. So at first, I thought about running a Chinese restaurant or a seafood restaurant
(past) since I’d done that before When I was wondering what to do There weren’t many Chinese restaurants around here, so I thought Chinese might be good.
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We started serving Chinese food And that’s how it is to this day I’m a big fan of mapo tofu, you see and we have customers who come specifically for our mapo tofu so if you come to our place for mapo tofu you can get mapo tofu that suits your taste
and that was part of it too I made oyster mapo tofu
and it became a hit, you could say It suited our customers’ tastes
and we’ve kept it on the menu for years. Preparing mapo tofu We use coarse-ground minced meat
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This is 5 kilograms
for one day’s worth Not just lean meat It’s Yamato Pork, so The fat is delicious
The fat has a strong umami flavor too It’s stir-fried together. Cooking sake. Blue Sky Set Meal 1350 yen
Original!! Mapo Tofu Set Meal Nara’s Premium Mapo Tofu Set Meal 1450 yen
Special Premium Set Meal 1650 yen Yamato Beef XO Sauce Mapo Tofu Set Meal 1850 yen Lightly Stir-fried Seafood Set Meal 1450 yen
Beef Stir-fried with Black Pepper Set Meal 1450 yen Yamato Pork Sweet and Sour Pork Set Meal 1450 yen
Mapo Noodles Set 1150 yen Stir-fried Noodles with Thick Sauce Set 1150 yen Saliva Chicken Set Meal 1350 yen Opens at 11:00 One male customer arrives immediately
Orders the Blue Sky Set Meal Fried food included with set meal Water-dissolved potato starch Sichuan pepper numbing sensation
Seiten Set Meal 1350 yen +180 yen to change to medium plate Here’s the medium plate for the Aoten Set Meal. Assorted fried items.
We’ll bring them as soon as they’re ready. Let’s eat. The numbing sansho pepper is addictive… Pairs perfectly with plain white rice Mildly numbing
Premium Mapo Tofu Set Meal ¥1,450 Sansho pepper with citrus notes Mildly numbing
with a refined, elegant flavor Chewy thick noodles and plenty of vegetables
Stir-fried noodles with thick sauce set 1150 yen Set’s fried dumplings Two women enter the restaurant Mapo Noodles Set 1150 yen Thank you for waiting
The Mapo Noodles Set, right? Mix the mapo with the noodles Slurp Yeah, delicious! It’s good, right! Can we have the O’D Blue again this year for the end of the year? (Manager) If you let me know in advance… Is that okay! Thank you for your continued patronage every year. This is the first ticket
for next month’s secret menu. Thank you so much as always! Staff) Do you come to the restaurant often? Well,
I definitely try to come at least two or three times a month. When I first moved to Nara, my wife found a delicious restaurant
and brought me here. The spiciness, the flavor, the aroma
It had all three elements perfectly balanced I’d never had such delicious mapo tofu before From there, I got totally hooked. Besides mapo tofu, they have Tianjin rice and all kinds of other menu items.
Everything is absolutely exquisite. Before I knew it, I’d become a regular. Plus, the owner is such a nice person. That’s another big plus. Staff) I think they stamped it
for you. It’s a secret menu item
they do when you come for lunch.
If you come twice a month for lunch, the next month you get an original menu created by the owner, so to speak. There are various menu items, but Secret Menu Invitation Ticket It’s a secret menu item. The fact that you can eat it That’s also a big reason people come here often (With mapo tofu)
It makes me sweat nicely, you know? It feels like it’s getting me in shape. Honestly, this feels more satisfying than a sauna
I’m really enjoying the meal I’m very satisfied Staff) Are you full? Yes! Staff) What did you order? (We ordered)
Yamato beef XO sauce mapo tofu and mapo noodles It was delicious! The meat was really delicious, as expected. The meat is different from regular mapo tofu,
so it was delicious. This one isn’t very spicy I like spicy food It was delicious Thank you for the meal. We’ll clear the table right away
and set it up. 12:00 Lightly Stir-Fried Seafood Set Meal 1,450 yen The mapo tofu orders just keep coming… Sorry to keep you waiting Here’s your Yamato beef mapo tofu with XO sauce Excuse me Have you ever tried
our mapo tofu? This is my first time. Regarding this mapo tofu…
Original sansho pepper from Yamato tachibana oranges grown in Nara Prefecture It has a citrusy aroma.
If the aroma isn’t strong enough, please add more and enjoy. 1:00 PM Drooling Chicken Set Meal 1350 yen Couple eating Mapo Tofu Adding more Sichuan pepper Smells great It’s delicious! Closing at 3:00 PM Staff) Seems like you enjoyed it? It’s delicious. This much (mapo tofu) I’m saying now
Should I get seconds? Should I? This customer also has mapo tofu It’s super delicious! Staff) As expected, we’re serving out a ton of mapo tofu.
Like they said, it’s pretty much all that
About 90% is just mapo If it’s not tasty, you can send it back Yeah, we do that, we do that I think it happened once It didn’t suit your taste. I did say I’d listen at first,
but it didn’t suit your taste. so I changed to a different menu item. Probably once. It was incredibly delicious. This is bad.
Once I start expressing my love, I can’t stop. It cleared the skies in my heart. Staff meal Staff) Why did you start this job? My previous restaurant closed due to COVID. I was looking around and figured I might as well work at a place I actually like and think is delicious I really liked their mapo tofu here I got hooked on the mapo tofu here Staff) How old is the owner now? Manager: He’ll be 47 next January. Staff) Your wife looks quite
young, though. That’s right.
I guess I’ll give away my age if I say it, but She’s 13
years younger than me. I wonder why Originally, I worked part-time at an old place
where I used to work part-time. When I was a teenager, he joined as a full-time employee at that time. Well, when we talked,
his way of thinking was really interesting. Without denying things Without denying anyone But even so, I myself change my way of thinking, or rather or rather, changing my perspective When I received advice like, “Wouldn’t that be nice?” I thought, “This person is interesting.” Overcoming various age differences… Staff) Was there any opposition from your parents? Not at all. Let’s just pretend there wasn’t any, lol. (We started dating)
when I was 19 and my husband was about to turn 32. After dating for three years, we said we’d get married, About half a year before that
Actually, there was this tiny 3-tsubo space we could start a restaurant. When I heard he wanted to do that,
I thought it would be great if he could make it happen, so I supported him. I went to give them
my answer that I would do it. The day before, the day before I found out I was pregnant and we weren’t even legally married yet. Hearing that, he was like, “No way, if we’re having a kid, Not starting a business now, but staying at the company he works for now forever.
When he said that, I thought, “No, that’s not right.” I figured in a few years
he’d definitely regret it, I thought you’d say, “I wish I’d done it back then.” So I said, “No, you have to do it now,”
and that was the trigger. So pregnancy, opening the practice, marriage, and childbirth all happened in one year. All in one year, bang! Staff: When you’re pregnant or
just had a baby, Staff: You can’t help out at the shop, right? When you have a baby I was probably at the shop 12 hours ago I was standing in the dining room. It was only about 10 square meters It was a very small space
We were managing with just the two of us I was working normally until about 12 hours ago I’m feeling a bit off
I said I’d head home and left By early the next morning, she had given birth Staff) Like, “I’m just going to go give birth.” That’s about right.
Son returns home Staff) What’s your favorite dish your dad makes? Tenshin rice, mapo tofu, and fried chicken. A close-up look at one of Nara’s most popular restaurants
where mapo tofu lovers gather.

店名　中華処 青天（せいてん）
地図　https://maps.app.goo.gl/rFixxeAv3GZ5nzNH7
住所　奈良県奈良市東向南町１　ＡＭＩビル２１　１Ｆ

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