第35話: 山岡が実業家の里見を元とんかつ店主の中橋との再会に手助けする

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Deputy Director Tomii assigns Yamaoka and Kurita to follow up on correspondence the newspaper has received about food, and their first letter is from Shinichi Satoi, a Japanese who has lived in the United States for 30 years and became a successful businessman. He has returned to Japan, and wants to taste traditional tonkatsu in Shibuya, but has not found one with the flavour he remembers. He tells of when he was a poor student, the Tonkatsu Daio restaurant owners, Mr and Mrs Nakahashi, were kind to him and their tonkatsu was delicious. Yamaoka decides to find the Nakahashis and convinces his reluctant editor that it will make a good news story. He eventually finds them in a retirement village and reunites them with Satoi. Yamaoka prepares high quality pork and other ingredients for Nakahashi to make tonkatsu, and Nakahashi successfully recreates the flavour Satoi remembers. In a surprise gesture, Satoi reveals that he bought the establishment for the Nakahashis who decide to come out of retirement to run their new Tonkatsu Daio restaurant. (Source: Wikipedia)