老舗か新興か。悩んだら、両方買えばいい
郡山での仕事を早々に終えた高宮進は、以前からずっと気になっていた酒好きの聖地・泉屋酒店で、ずっと気になっていた「箕輪門」を手に入れる。これぞ地方出張の醍醐味。雑味を取り除いた酒には、どんな料理も合うはずと考えて選んだメニューはおにぎり。ところが検索すると気になる店が二か所あった。40年以上愛される老舗の炊き込みご飯おにぎりをとるか、歴史は浅いが素材にこだわる店の炭焼鮭おにぎりをとるか…それが問題だ。
Old shop or new shop? When in doubt, buy both. After finishing his work in Koriyama early, Susumu Takamiya went to the Izumiya Sake Shop, a sacred place for sake lovers, and picked up a bottle of Minowamon, which he had been curious about for a long time. This is what a business trip to the countryside is all about. I thought that any dish would go well with sake that has been stripped of its bitterness, so I chose onigiri (rice balls) as my dish of choice. However, a quick search revealed that there were two shops on the menu that I was interested in: one was a long-established shop that had been serving rice balls for over 40 years, and the other was a lesser-established shop that was particular about its ingredients and charcoal-grilled salmon onigiri.
