No. 25, Yanji St, Jiuru 1st Rd
高雄市三民區九如一路延吉街25號
(07)386-6261
Monday-Sunday
11:00am-2:00pm
5:00pm-9:00pm
English friendly: no
vegetarian friendly: no
average cost: 100-150NTD
"Drunk" and "most" have the same pronunciation in Chinese, so this restaurant's name is pretty cutesy. Don't get your hopes up though--it isn't very cheap, not relatively speaking, and I am almost positive you will not come away drunk.
I'm not one to waste a lot of space/pictures on the interior design of a place, or other non-food-related things, but so you know this restaurant is a lot nicer than the places I usually hang out (har har har). It's all decked out in Japanese style, with a wooden sushi counter and standing formation of young pretty waitresses in cute little uniforms. A good place for a date! Though be aware it can get pretty crowded.
You can order sushi of all varieties to-go at the sushi counter, or sit down for a more substantial set meal. Your choices are basically meat of some sort on top of stewed pork rice (which automatically comes with black tea, soup, and some greens) as well as whatever extra raw fish, cooked vegetable, etc. you'd like to order on the side. Because this is "fast food" in Asia, it comes to your table marginally faster than regular food at about twice the price. The most expensive things down there at the bottom are the salads, because they are salads.
Worth it??? Check out their seafood salad, a beautifully arranged bouquet of seafood (and mashed taro) just bursting with color! They also have a supposedly famous fish roe salad which sounds really neat, but I only found out about it after so will have to wait until next time...!
A massive salmon roe hand roll, which I did not have the pleasure of ingesting.
So here we have a set meal, delivered on a huge cafeteria tray like a real fast food restaurant. This is the chicken drumstick option, and if the perspective weren't so whacked you would notice that the drumstick is TOTALLY GINORMOUS, as big as your FACE. I don't want to know what sort of mutant monster chicken that came from. My friend who ordered it said she thought the chicken was too salty, which--seeing as she is Taiwanese--is good news for you, you salty foreign devil!
Here is the stewed pork rice that comes at the base of every meal. It is good on its own, but not amazing. I sort of wished the rice were a bit fluffier.
I personally selected the 虎掌飯 or "tiger paw rice" set meal option that this restaurant is famous for, which means my meat topping was the bloody severed paw of a wild Bengal tiger. Just kidding, it was this. Pig foot! You guys have started to eat pig foot by now, right?
I hope so, because it is in general seriously delicious, and this time around definitely-not-messing-around seriously, SERIOUSLY delicious. Smooth and chewy and fatty... if there were bones it would be falling off them. I guess it already fell off them. When paired with rice, it is just... perfect. It will make you so happy.
There is also a bountiful cache of bamboo hiding in the soup, to console you when you must face the crushing absence of pig foot because you ate it all in the first two minutes.
We all ordered 蒸蛋 ("steamed egg") on the side, and it came looking like this. Because I'd completely forgotten what we'd ordered, I initially thought it was tofu pudding, or some sort of custard. Even after I remembered, I was still sort of disarmed by it--it looks like it should taste sweet, but instead it's all salty and eggy and stuff... An exercise in mental disconnect.
There's all sorts of pinkish seafood hiding inside, including a random clam still in its shell (not pictured). I am still not sure how to feel about the whole thing. I would suggest ordering it if you are curious, looking to experience something new, or really REALLY into the taste of slippery egg whites.
Here we have my other friend's beef set meal. The beef was good, but it was still just beef. If you're coming here for the first time, I would not give up an opportunity to try the tiger paw rice.
I'd also like to note that the red tea that comes with each meal is REALLY good. It's been prepared in the traditional way, which means it has a complex, chocolately flavor instead of whatever tea-flavored sugar water flavor you get from the junk sold in 7-11.
I'm not sure how "Japanese" Drunk Cheap Japanese Fast Food is, as their set meal options are all variations on Taiwanese stewed pork rice, but I don't care. This place is special. It's not a chain restaurant, despite the "fast food" label, and it is good, despite the "fast food" label. Definitely stop by and give it a try.
OVERALL RATING: 4/5
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