Bakusho Mondai's Hikari Ota and TV Host Ryoji Ishii delve into the classics of the Tokai region in the variety show "Ota x Ishii DELA LOVER"! This time, it's a special on super cheap gourmet food in Aichi. We'll be announcing a ranking of Aichi's super cheap and super delicious gourmet foods surveyed by the program, in order of price! (Prices are as of the time of filming)

Can you enjoy a ramen lunch at a popular Korean restaurant for under 1000 yen!?

The 5th place in "Aichi's Top 5 Super Cheap and Super Delicious Gourmet Foods" is "Taishu Kankoku Sakaba Ifu" in Naka Ward, Nagoya City.

It's a Korean restaurant in front of Kanayama Station where you can enjoy authentic Korean cuisine such as stone-grilled bibimbap and cheese dakgalbi.

Their specialty is all-you-can-eat samgyeopsal! The staff grills carefully selected pork with fine texture, rich moisture, and a good balance of fat and lean meat, seasoned with salt and pepper.

There are 4 types of meat seasoning in total. 18 kinds of vegetables, 4 kinds of side dishes such as kimchi and namul, and 3 kinds of rice such as multigrain rice and seaweed rice are all-you-can-eat for 90 minutes!

This time, super cheap gourmet expert Maguro Daimyojin sampled the 5 restaurants in the top 5. The expert, who knows all about super cheap gourmet food in Gifu and says "Gifu's cost performance is the best in Japan," evaluates them with a discerning eye.

The samgyeopsal was grilled by manager Sakagami. Maguro Daimyojin, who sampled it, was very satisfied, saying, "The meat has a spicy pepper flavor, and the texture of carrots and red core daikon makes it seem like you could eat it endlessly."

The all-you-can-eat samgyeopsal costs 2178 yen. They are able to purchase it cheaply by buying about 100 kg of pork at once twice a week.

The menu item that ranked 5th is the "Korean Spicy Ramen Set," which comes with Korean-style rice balls and a salad.

All the soups are homemade, and the base "nabe miso" is said to be delicious even on its own, being spicy yet high in sugar content. Chili peppers and shiitake mushroom powder are mixed into the nabe miso, then chicken broth and shimeji mushrooms are added and heated.

The noodles are thick, dried "sari noodles" that don't get soggy, often used for finishing hot pots. Once the noodles are boiled, they are added to the soup, an egg is dropped in, and it's complete.

Korean-style rice balls "Chumoppa" are rice balls mixed with pickled daikon, Korean seaweed, mayonnaise, and more.

Homemade spicy ramen with chumoppa and salad, all for an amazing 580 yen!

100% Japanese Black Beef Hamburgers at a Super Low Price

The 4th place in "Aichi's Top 5 Super Cheap and Super Delicious Gourmet Foods" is "Yakiniku Jingu" in Atsuta Ward, Nagoya City.

Since its establishment in 2021, it has been selected 4 times for Tabelog's "Yakiniku EAST 100 Famous Restaurants."

Yakiniku Jingu's super cheap menu item is "Specialty Wagyu Raw Hamburg Steak ~with Truffle-scented Egg Yolk~". According to public relations manager Imanaka, the raw hamburg steak is fresh and has never been frozen.

They use carefully selected A5 rank Kyushu-produced Japanese Black beef minced meat. Only salt, pepper, and other spices are added. They don't use any binders, so you can fully enjoy the original taste of the meat.

Place the hamburg steak on a hot plate and flip it for about 5 minutes. Once cooked, dip it in egg yolk with truffle powder and eat.

Maguro Daimyojin, who bit into the hamburg steak, raved, "The umami and juices come out, and the truffle aroma follows! There's also the rich texture of the egg yolk and a fragrant charred part. It's seriously delicious!"

This menu, which includes four 100% Japanese Black beef hamburg steaks (total 160g) and four truffle-infused egg yolks, costs an astonishing 550 yen! That's about 140 yen per hamburg steak.

According to Imanaka, "Customers who come for the hamburg steak also try other items. It's a product to attract customers." He honestly wishes to offer this menu for 1500 yen.

Daily Lunch with About 25 Varieties, Available for Under One Coin!

The 3rd place in "Aichi's Top 5 Super Cheap and Super Delicious Gourmet Foods" is "Nankaien" in Higashi Ward, Nagoya City.

This local Chinese restaurant, founded about 70 years ago, is loved by local customers and business people.

The generously filled gyoza costs an astonishing 250 yen. The restaurant's specialty, "Tamago Harumaki" (Egg Spring Roll), which the second-generation owner, Sakai, learned during his training in Kansai, is a labor-intensive dish where plenty of ingredients such as thinly sliced pork, onions, bamboo shoots, and vermicelli are wrapped in a thin omelet and then deep-fried. It also costs 250 yen.

Customers flock to order the "Daily Lunch," which is both cheap and delicious.

Today's menu was "Yurinchi" (fried chicken with sweet and sour sauce). It's a dish where chicken is marinated overnight in homemade sauce to absorb the flavor, then deep-fried and topped with homemade yurinchi sauce made with soy sauce, vinegar, and other ingredients. Maguro Daimyojin, who sampled it, narrowed his eyes and said, "Even though it has sauce, it retains its crispiness, and the coating is fluffy. Since it's thigh meat, it's incredibly juicy. It's the kind of yurinchi where one piece makes you want to eat a whole bowl of rice!"

The daily lunch menu also includes about 25 other varieties such as "Tenshinhan" (crab omelet on rice), "Chukahan" (Chinese-style stir-fry on rice), "Ageshumai no Yasai Ankake" (fried shumai with vegetable thick sauce), and "Mabo-han" (mapo tofu on rice)!

The most popular among them is the "Katsu Curry Rice," inherited from the owner's father, the previous generation. It's a secret curry that has been loved for over 60 years since the previous generation first made it.

The curry is made by adding wine and other ingredients to pureed vegetables and fruits, then simmering it slowly. Despite being a super cheap lunch, it comes with a pork loin tonkatsu.

The incredibly popular daily lunch costs an astonishing 450 yen!

Furthermore, even with ramen added to the daily lunch, the price is 600 yen. The noodles, kneaded with wakame seaweed, are homemade, and ramen topped with char siu, boiled egg, menma, and nori can be added for just 150 yen.

According to Sakai, they continue to offer cheap lunches by inheriting the previous generation's philosophy of "wanting many people to eat delicious food cheaply" through high volume and low profit.

The biggest reason they can offer such low prices is by reducing labor costs through the support of the husband and wife. Originally, the owner's parents and four people ran the restaurant. Even after the previous generation retired, they don't hire part-timers to continue offering cheap lunches, and the two of them run the restaurant, which sometimes serves about 70 customers a day.

Here are the 2nd and 1st place winners of "Aichi's Top 5 Super Cheap and Super Delicious Gourmet Foods"!
2nd place: "Mikakudo" Daily Lunch in Kanie Town, Aichi
1st place: "Go-o Seika"'s meticulously crafted Mitarashi Dango, headquartered in Konan City, Aichi

From CBC TV "DELA LOVER" broadcast on May 20, 2026