At each Tsukemen TETSU group store, the limited menu "Father, Engawa and Cold Shimazesoba" (800 yen) has sold more than 3,000 cups in a month. Currently, it is sold at 20 stores in the group for a limited time until August 31st.


This chilled soba, which is anxious from the menu name, is said to have been selected as the best work at the "Chilled Chinese Championship" where the managers of 24 affiliated stores devise "Men's chilled Chinese" respectively. I was curious about the whole picture, so I decided to go eat it.

The closest affiliated store to the En-eating office is the "Edo-mae Boiled Chinese Soba Kimihan" Gotanda store under the elevated JR Gotanda station. At the ticket vending machine, meal tickets are sold under the menu name "Cold Shimaze Soba".



When I handed the meal ticket to the clerk, "Father, porch and chilled abura soba" was delivered in about 5 minutes. This is ...!? I can't hide my turmoil in the visuals that go far beyond my imagination ...!


◆ I felt like I understood the origin of the menu name

Chicken skin, squid, bean sprouts, takuan, green onions, potato chips, and other unique toppings are served on top of the noodles that are thicker than the chilled Chinese noodles that you usually eat. Next to the squid, there is a gang of mayonnaise. Isn't this a perfect beer snack choice! By the way, the jelly-like jelly is black vinegar and ginger jelly.


I wonder what this feeling makes me feel nostalgic. The sentimental that had been stowed in the back of my chest overflows. At dusk in summer, I watched a baseball broadcast with my dad drinking beer with squid and potato chips while being wrapped in the smell of mosquito coils. That summer day ... Summer day 1993 ...


◆ Try to eat

Anyway, I'll try it.


The noodles are chewy and elastic, and have a moderate hardness that makes them chewy. The cold soup has a strong soy sauce flavor with a dashi stock. If you take the plunge and mix the mayonnaise into the whole , the mellow richness will be added to the soup and it will be very delicious.


All the toppings go well with sake. The chicken skin, geso, and takuan are crunchy and chewy, and you can eat while moving the jaws well, so you can feel full. Hiyashi chuka that can be enjoyed as a snack or as a meal.


◆ Thoughts of the store manager who devised the menu

Onoshita, the manager of the "Shrimp Dashi no Tetsu Okachimachi store" who devised "Father, porch and chilled abura soba", said that the concept of this menu development was "to have a son and become a father". It seems to have been raised.

He says:

"When I heard that my child was a boy, I was a little worried. I wondered if I could be my son's proud father. When I realized that I couldn't do it, I was working desperately. Please enjoy this work, which expresses the life of such a man with a bowl of rice. "

Why don't you try this cup full of nostalgia on a summer day, the passionate life of Onoshita, and a little playfulness before the end of summer?