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Osamu Shidara of comedy duo Bananaman expressed his astonishment on TBS Radio’s “Banana Moon GOLD” over the Tokyo expansion of “Bikkuri-tei Honke,” a grilled-meat-on-a-hotplate specialty shop known as a beloved Fukuoka soul food. News that the chain had opened a Shinjuku Kabukicho location on October 31 sparked a lively 5ch thread, with posters pointing out that prices there run about 20% higher than back home in Fukuoka, the surprising fact that the chain barely has any locations in Fukuoka itself, and even jokes mixing up the English term “soul food” with Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
Osamu Shidara thrilled by Fukuoka soul food’s first Tokyo location: “This is shockingly good… wait, you can get this in Tokyo?!”
Osamu Shidara (53), of comedy duo “Bananaman,” appeared on the late-night TBS Radio program “JUNK Bananaman’s Banana Moon GOLD” (Fridays, 1:00 AM), in the episode airing on the 6th. There was a moment where he got excited over a Fukuoka soul food making its first foray into Tokyo.
At the top of the show, Shidara opened with “Bikkuri, bikkuri, Bikkuri-tei” (playing on “bikkuri,” meaning “surprise”). He brought up the news that “Bikkuri-tei Honke,” a grilled-meat-on-a-hotplate specialty restaurant known as a Fukuoka soul food, had opened in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Kabukicho on October 31, exclaiming in surprise, “Wait, they opened one in Shinjuku!? Huh, I had no idea!”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
I'm from northern Fukuoka so I've never had it
Northern Fukuoka is exactly where it's from
Seems like the crazy prices are just a Shinjuku thing
They jacked up the price compared to back home in Kyushu
In Fukuoka: ¥950 → ¥1,200
Double portion: ¥1,800 → ¥2,200
So roughly 20-something percent more expensive
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The original meaning of "yabai": back in the Edo-to-Meiji era, underworld figures used "ayabui" (dangerous) / "yaba" when their crimes were about to be exposed or danger was closing in
Traditional usage of "yabai": dangerous, in trouble, tastes bad, feeling sick
Usage of "yabai" since the Heisei era: amazing, delighted, moved, delicious, incredible skill, cool, funny, surprising
Us folks out in the countryside couldn't care less
His mother is
His father's some fairly big shot at the Seibu Group
So he's a rich kid, huh? Had no idea
Heard he worked as a train station attendant before debuting — guess that explains it
Literally everything is different
Is there meat underneath the cabbage too?
Is this the one from that video that starts with lining up dozens of cabbages and coring them out?
I think Takeshita Seika is actually from Saga, not Fukuoka
Same guy who thinks "soul music" means Korean music?
He joined recently
Even locals don't eat at West. That's the level we're talking
Shisan's gobo-ten is way better
I think there's only about one location in the Kitakyushu area
Looked it up, yeah, there really is only one store in Fukuoka
Thought it was a chain
I've lived in Fukuoka for over 50 years and never had it
It's near JR Minami-Fukuoka Station
1.5 servings with a medium rice is ¥1,600
A bit pricey
Was it Chitofuna?
There's a knockoff place in Kyodo
Taste and price are basically the same
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Well, you can get to Busan from Fukuoka by ferry
https://x.com/fukuoka_gohan/status/2117920257176408359?a=vMoeYrePM0pUKiMzO9o&s=61
Everyone take a look
Doesn't look tasty at all, right? lol
And that's exactly the right reaction
Way too expensive
Even thinking "this is pricey," it's got a taste that pulls you back for more
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
“Bikkuri-tei Honke” is a specialty shop for yakiniku teppan (a dish of cabbage, pork skirt steak, and other ingredients steamed together on a hotplate) that has long been beloved in Fukuoka. As the thread pointed out, it isn’t a nationwide chain, and even within Fukuoka Prefecture it has only a handful of locations. Much of its rising name recognition owes to social media and online videos, and this latest Tokyo expansion (October 31, Shinjuku Kabukicho) is an extension of that trend. Where the thread split was over pricing: once it came out that Tokyo prices run about 20% higher than back home in Fukuoka, defenders argued it’s “a flavor worth paying extra for,” while skeptics countered it’s “way too expensive for what’s basically just stir-fried cabbage.” It’s also worth noting — since it may not be obvious from the comments alone — that “soul food” is a common English expression for a regional dish deeply rooted in local culture, but because it’s rendered in Japanese as “souru,” the same spelling used for “Seoul,” the capital of South Korea, several posters joked about mixing the two up.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Geino/Sports Breaking News+) thread “[Entertainment] Osamu Shidara thrilled by Fukuoka soul food’s first Tokyo location: “This is shockingly good… wait, you can get this in Tokyo?!”“.
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