Solitary Gourmet

tv show

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132 total episodes

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11 seasons

First Aired January 04, 2012

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Overview

Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.

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Flaming Sake Pot and Barley Rice with Grated Yam of Nishiogu, Arakawa Ward

Season 3 - Episode 10 - 1h 33m

Air Date

September 11, 2013

Overview

Goro sets out for an amusement park in Nishiogu. He meets with a client, the director of a train museum. Goro finds his enthusiasm for trains and intolerance of children who play with his train models quite amusing. Later he spots a takoyaki shop and buys a takoyaki-senbei sandwich. Later he uses the town's streetcar and helps out an old lady carry her defective rolling luggage to a neighborhood he has not seen before. There, he decides to eat at a tonkatsu shop. Despite the hot weather, he orders a flaming sake hot pot, barley rice, and of course a mini-tonkatsu set.