Founded in Namba in 1910 (Meiji 43), Jiyuken is one of Osaka's oldest Western-style restaurants. It is nationally famous for its "Specialty Curry," in which the rice and curry roux are mixed beforehand with a raw egg dropped right in the middle.
The ingenuity behind the birth of the signature curry
Since the founding days when there were no thermal containers, even cold rice can be heated and mixed with hot curry beforehand, so that it can be eaten warm and delicious—that’s how the specialty curry was born. The mellowness of the well-stirred raw egg, the spicy curry sauce, and the table sauce—this is the freehand eating style of Jiyukan.
The taste loved by Sakunosuke Oda
One of the regular customers of this restaurant was the Osaka-based author, Okuda Yasujiro. The curry from Furi no Ken appears in the novel "Furu no Zenya". Alongside the words "The tiger dies and leaves behind its skin; Okuda Yasujiro dies and leaves behind curry rice," engraved on the frame of the photo of Okuda Yasujiro displayed in the restaurant, this is a dish that you should savor while feeling the history of Minami, the literary city.