[Osaka Restaurant] A disappointing review of Kajitsu no Hara Shinsaibashi. For fruit mochi, Issindo is a must!!

백원장’s rating ★★★★★

Hello.

This is Baek, director of Lev Dental Clinic at Sinsa Station, and this is my gourmet Michelin-style review.

Today’s post is very short, but it’s one you should read, so I’m writing it.

My spouse and I make sure to!!! eat plenty of fruit mochi every time we go to Osaka.

Especially during peach season, it is really, really delicious~!!

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Issindo Hankyu Umeda branch

This is the place we went to the most.

There is also a branch in Takashimaya Department Store in Namba!!!

Please remember that the Namba branch usually has a shorter line...

I always take a photo of my wife, who breaks into a big smile every time she goes.

The peach season had already passed (they only appear when it’s hot), so there wasn’t a long line at the store. Haha.

I actually love it and go there often, but I haven’t taken photos that often...

The prices are reasonable too. Strawberry mochi is 422 yen, and the other fruit mochi are in the 400–500 yen range.

The mochi you eat in Korea. Especially that one you eat in Yeosu... it’s on a completely different level from that.

If you have a Hankyu VIP membership card, you know this already...? Even purchases count toward points, so be sure to present your membership barcode!!!

Kajitsu no hana Shinsaibashi

This is where the problem started.

Issindo’s fruit mochi was good, but.. for some reason, I got the urge to look for another good place....

So I searched and found a mochi shop on Shinsaibashi’s main street.

I was in a good mood until I went in and ate.. and the Google rating was 4.8...........

From outside, there were a lot of white people.. I should have noticed then.. a local crowd is what makes a place a good restaurant..

I think they made this logo so well that it really looks like a famous restaurant lol

Many of you probably saw it while walking around Shinsaibashi. This post is dedicated to those people.

When you walk in, you see all kinds of fruit mochi, and honestly, they display them very well so they look really delicious.

They offered more varieties than I expected.

These were the ones we had our eye on.

We were curious about the peach mochi even though the season was mostly over..

Who doesn’t like melon? That one and the mango mochi were interesting too..

Strawberry mochi is the classic all-time number one mochi..

Anyway, we bought three.

The prices are also high. Higher than Issindo. They cost around 600–700 yen. Some are even more....

We bought melon mochi, mango mochi, and peach mochi. (Almost 20,000 won ㅡㅡ)

I introduced fruit mochi in Tokyo before, remember?

Please keep these delicious mochi shops in mind and go two or three times!!!

Just like the mochi at Benzaiten in that post, they give you thread so you can cut it and eat it.

Mango mochi (740 yen)

If you cut it like in the video, you get a neat cross-section...

The taste was rather ordinary. Just mango tasting like mango.. It wasn’t bad, but it didn’t feel worth 7,000 won.

Peach mochi (640 yen)

A peach mochi priced at nearly 6,000 won..........

The peach tastes bland ㅠㅠ When I ate it at Issindo, it was truly heavenly...

I’ll just assume that’s because the season was over...

Melon mochi (740 yen)

This was also a melon mochi that cost about 7,000 won.. Why is it different from the model?

I thought it would be Yubari melon.. but looking at the photo again, there’s something written next to the model..

Anyway, it was very disappointing ㅠㅠ

I don’t like leaving long posts unnecessarily, but the reason I’m writing this one is because I don’t want there to be another Korean victim like me....

If you hear that there’s a fruit mochi shop with a flashy exterior on Shinsaibashi’s main street, don’t go in.

If you’ve read my post, wait a little and go find Issindo instead. There’s a branch in the basement of Hankyu Department Store at Osaka Station, and another branch in the basement of Takashimaya Department Store in Namba!!!!!

It was a place with higher prices and less flavor.. that kind of place.

It’s not like all fruit mochi in Japan are delicious, right? hahaha

If I had to compare them, Issindo has a thin skin, large fruit, and a style that emphasizes juiciness,

while Kajitsu has a thicker skin, more mochi, smaller fruit, less juice, and a dry texture.

I’m sure anyone who eats them would say Issindo’s fruit mochi tastes better......

Anyway, that was my review after spending 20,000 won....

Thank you for reading my blog about places I paid for myself and ate at.

I’ll keep doing my best to be a restaurant coordinator you’ll always want to visit. :)

This was Dentist Baek, dreaming of becoming both a master of implants and a gourmet.

Thank you.!!