Tasting review of the long-established restaurant 'Iwamasa', which is famous for its miso cutlet bowl with miso sauce and miso stewed udon with egg in a clay pot. Enjoy Nagoya food at once with the high cost performance of 1400 yen for eating both.

When you hear ``Nagoya Meshi,'' the first thing that comes to mind is miso dishes such as ``Miso Katsu'' with plenty of miso sauce and ``Miso Nikomi Udon'' which is udon simmered in miso and dashi. I was thinking, ``I want to eat a lot of miso dishes,'' and when I was researching, I found that a long-established restaurant in Nagoya called ` `Iwasho' ' offers miso katsudon, which is made by covering miso cutlet with egg and putting it on rice. I found information that you can eat piping hot miso stewed udon noodles in a clay pot at a relatively low price. I got information on the Internet that there was a line every day, so I actually went to Nagoya to see what kind of taste of miso dishes I could eat.

Iwamasa is located a few minutes walk from Kurumamichi Station on the Nagoya Municipal Subway Sakuradori Line. There is a private parking lot for 5 cars near the store. Business hours are 11:00 to 15:00 and closed on Tuesdays.


Arrived at Iwamasa around 12:45 on Saturday. The green curtain says 'handmade'. At this point, there was no line and I was able to enter the store easily.

Enter the store and take a seat. On the wall is a menu of miso stew (miso stew udon). Miso Nikomi Udon is basically 700 yen including tax, but the price changes depending on the type of toppings.

On the opposite wall, there were bowl menus such as beef bowl and miso katsudon. This time, I ordered miso katsudon (650 yen including tax) and miso stew udon with egg (750 yen including tax).

The miso katsudon was served within a few minutes of ordering. Miso katsudon is a dish that is a combination of ``miso cutlet,'' which is pork cutlet topped with miso sauce, and ``katsudon,'' which is pork cutlet topped with egg and served over rice. There is pork cutlet on top.

From the appearance, I imagined that it would be salty due to a lot of miso, but when I actually tasted it, the sweetness, miso umami, sourness, and slight bitterness were more noticeable than the saltiness. The batter absorbs the egg and miso sauce and becomes fluffy, and rather than ``meat wrapped in batter,'' it's more like ``meat wrapped in miso sauce, and there's also a rich feeling of bread crumbs fried in oil. I feel like I'm joining in. The meat is crisp and easy to eat.

The miso cutlet part has a very strong flavor, so you can keep eating the rice. ``Eat the miso cutlet, enjoy the taste of miso, eat rice to soften the strong taste of the miso sauce, and want to taste the strong miso sauce again.'' While repeating this loop, the bowl will be empty before you know it. It had become.

Pickled radish is also prepared on the table, so you can continue eating while refreshing your mouth.

The miso stewed udon was served in a clay pot. The soup is still bubbling.

When you first try the soup, you will notice a very strong umami due to the synergistic effect of the umami from the miso and the umami from the dashi. It is also good that it has a sharp and firm taste with a slight sourness that seems to come from miso.

The handmade udon noodles are flat and a little hard. Even after it was served, it continued to be heated in a hot earthenware pot, but it did not spread out and kept a slightly chewy hard state until the end.

The egg was half-boiled, and when you cracked the white, the yolk came out.

Eating udon with yolk gives it a mellow taste. For an additional 50 yen to the basic miso stew udon, you can enjoy two different flavors, so the egg topping is highly recommended.

Miso stewed udon has a very strong umami flavor, with the saltiness hiding behind the umami flavor. For this reason, there are no moments when you are concerned about the saltiness of the soup. I was able to enjoy the taste of miso until the end.

In addition, when I arrived at 12:45 on Saturday, I was able to enter the store without waiting, but when I finished eating at around 1:30 pm and went out, there was a line. When going to Iwamasa, you need to be prepared that there may be a few lines.

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