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Teito News Supreme Menu Challenge Versus Touzai News Ultimate Menu
Oct 16, 1990Teito News announces a Supreme Menu project led by Yuzan Kaibara to beat Touzai News. President Ohara challenges Yamaoka to release monthly dishes instead. Kaibara tasks wankata Ryouzou Okaboshi with the dishes, instructing him to signal that the first appetizer uses egg. Yamaoka accepts, and Weekly Times editors select judges. At the first tasting, Yamaoka presents a soft-boiled egg with truffle sauce. Kaibara counters with egg yolk misozuke. Kaibara wins due to the careful selection of miso and eggs.
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Ultimate VS Supreme, the Ability with Yolk
Oct 23, 1990After Kaibara wins the first round of the Ultimate VS Supreme Menu competition, Tōyama protests due to the high quality of his ingredients. Kaibara agrees to provide the same eggs to Yamaoka, who then remakes his dish using only egg yolks in truffle sauce. The judges declare the result a tie. Later, Kurita teases Yamaoka, claiming he truly lost because he modified his recipe after tasting Kaibara's dish. This interaction highlights the competitive tension and strategic adjustments made by the participants during the culinary contest.
- 80EP 80
Yamaoka helps Kazuo Hirai reconcile with his mother using wild yams in Kamakura
Oct 30, 1990Culture Division staff visit Manager Tanimura in Kamakura, where Yamaoka meets childhood friend and ex-yakuza Kazuo Hirai. Kazuo runs a small restaurant with his wife Tomoe, but business is slow due to the standard menu. Kazuo’s mother reacts angrily to his past and lack of perseverance. To appease her, Kazuo offers tororojiru, a dish made with rice and wild yams. Yamaoka finds a local yamaimo over a meter long in the forest for Kazuo to dig out. After Yamaoka convinces Mrs. Hirai to visit, she is impressed by the dish and the yam’s size. This leads to reconciliation between mother and son. Adding tororojiru to the menu causes the restaurant to thrive.
- 81EP 81
Yamaoka and Kurita use Izu seafood to help Suzuko recover her will to live.
Nov 6, 1990Okaboshi contacts Yamaoka regarding his brother Ryozo, a Gourmet Club chef who loves Suzuko. After her failed engagement and suicide attempt, Suzuko refuses all food, even from Kaibara. Yamaoka and Kurita travel to Izu, where Suzuko grew up, to gather local ingredients like brassy chub fish and haba nori. Ryozo grills the pressed seaweed, and its aroma evokes the sea breeze, restoring Suzuko’s desire to live. Following this recovery, Suzuko visits Izu with Ryozo. This narrative focuses on the emotional impact of familiar scents and the supportive efforts of friends to aid in healing from romantic trauma and depression through culinary connection.
- 82EP 82
Ultimate VS Supreme, the Live Rice
Nov 13, 1990The Weekly Times proposes that the next Ultimate VS Supreme Menu competition round uses identical ingredients, with Yamaoka suggesting vegetables. Kabara agrees only if both chefs source vegetables from the same pesticide-free farm. Concurrently, Tabata Kinue hosts a dinner for her fiancé Mr. Arakawa and his mother, where she accidentally overcooks rice due to a new polishing machine, though the team identifies moisture loss during storage as the true cause. During the competition, Yamaoka serves cabbage rolls stuffed with swellfish shirako, while Kaibara presents raw cabbage heart with tomato sauce. Kaibara wins for highlighting the cabbage's charm, gloating that Yamaoka ignored its unique qualities, while Yamaoka anticipates the second course featuring turnip.
- 83EP 83
Ultimate and Supreme Vegetable Battle Continues with Turnip Dishes
Nov 20, 1990The vegetable competition proceeds with turnip-based entries. Kaibara presents steamed turnip stuffed with mushroom paste, claiming it is ruined due to overcooked mushrooms, and leaves despite its popularity. Yamaoka serves a simpler dish of turnip steamed in fish stock, acknowledging that Kaibara’s effort deserves victory. After Yamaoka follows him outside, he confronts Kaibara regarding his rude conduct. Kaibara reveals his motivation, stating that Yamaoka inflicted significant public shame upon him during his rebellious youth. He declares his intention to inflict equivalent humiliation on Yamaoka, whom he explicitly rejects as his son. This personal vendetta drives Kaibara’s harsh behavior and his decision to abandon the dish despite its success.
- 84EP 84
Yamaoka and the Flower Trio discover Naotaro Moriguchi's connection to the Kanazawa region's culinary traditions and personal history.
Nov 27, 1990The Touzai News Culture Department Flower Trio follows Yamaoka to a restaurant, expecting a romantic encounter, but instead witness him meeting Inspector Nakamatsu. The establishment, run by Naotaro Moriguchi, serves gori chitoseni, a dish made from fish native to the Sai and Asano Rivers in the Kanazawa Region. Kuniko arrives from Ryotei Maedaya, requesting Naotaro's return due to an accident involving the owner. During dinner, she reveals that Naotaro once planned to marry the owner's daughter, but she wed Seiji, a junior colleague who now runs the business. With Seiji hospitalized, no one knows how to prepare the Kinchakai. Yamaoka persuades Naotaro to assist with the event, which ultimately helps rekindle his romance with Kuniko.
- 85EP 85
Inspector Nakamatsu introduces friends to childhood friend Hankichi Tsunahama and his estranged former sweetheart Mayumi Asuka.
Dec 4, 1990Inspector Nakamatsu takes Yamaoka and Kurita to a small Fukagawa style restaurant run by his friend Hankichi Tsunahama, who prepares peasant style food such as satoimo, renkon and boiled kinmedai fish. Nakamatsu reveals that Hankichi was in love with the pop idol, Mayumi Asuka, but she no longer visits him since she became famous. Both from Fukagawa, Nakamatsu explains that Hankichi and Mayumi were childhood friends and sweethearts, but Mayumi has become betrothed to the businessman Mr. Saga. However, after a sudden fall in stock prices, Saga has called off the engagement and fled the country. A distraught Mayumi visits Hankichi's restaurant and he prepares a traditional Fukagawa nabe for her. She is embarrassed by her past behavior, but Hankichi gladly welcomes her back into his life.
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The Nishio family overcomes marital distance to reconnect with their daughter Yoko.
Dec 11, 1990Three months prior, Yamaoka and the Culture Department rescued teenager Yoko Nishio from harassment in Kabukicho. Yoko revealed that despite her father Yasukaza being a renowned architect and her mother Yoshiko running the Bisai Cooking School, her home life was unhappy. She invited Yamaoka and Kurita to dinner, where they observed that her parents lacked romantic love and showed little interest in each other’s careers or Yoko’s wellbeing. Yamaoka confronted the couple about this neglect. In the present, Mr. Nishio receives an architecture award, with Touzai management, including Yamaoka and Kurita, attending the ceremony. He notes that his winning apartment design incorporates dining and food preparation elements contributed by Yoshiko. Later, at a garden party at the Nishio residence, Yamaoka and Kurita encounter a happy Yoko. They realize that her parents have resolved their differences and are now actively involved in Yoko’s life.
- 87EP 87
Yamaoka helps an orphanage and impresses Yoto Group president with torafugu karaage
Dec 18, 1990Restaurant owners demand payment for meals Yamaoka bought on credit, prompting Kurita to lend him money in exchange for visiting an orphanage. Yamaoka enjoys time with the children but learns the facility faces eviction by the Yoto Group within a month. He arranges a meeting with Yoto president Moriguchi at the new Ginza Hotel opening, where he critiques the inferior frog legs used in the menu. Yamaoka offers to prepare a superior dish, inviting Moriguchi to Okaboshi restaurant to taste karaage made from torafugu heads. Impressed by the flavor, Moriguchi agrees to Yamaoka's request, allowing the orphanage director to learn that the institute can remain on the land rent-free.
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Frequently asked questions
- How many episodes does Oishinbo have?
- Oishinbo has 136 episodes.
- When did Oishinbo come out?
- Oishinbo came out in 1988.
- Which studio made Oishinbo?
- Oishinbo was produced by Shin-Ei Animation.
- Who directed Oishinbo?
- Oishinbo was directed by Yoshio Takeuchi.
- Is Oishinbo finished?
- Current status of Oishinbo: Finished.