Pancho （ぱんちょう）| Buta don (Pork Bowl) Restaurant | Obihiro

Beef bowls （牛丼） are very popular Japanese dishes at home and abroad, but have you ever heard buta-don (pork bowls)?

Buta-don is a local dish in Obihiro area and very popular in Hokkaido. A founder of  "Pancho", Mr. Abe, created this pork dish in the mid-20th century, when Japanese people hardly ever ate pork, and he wanted ordinal people to eat pork dishes more often.

Let's enter this most historical buta-don restaurant, "Pancho"!

It is always packed with customers like this↓ Moreover, there is a long line in front the restaurant during lunch hours, but I really recommend this buta-don here!　It's veeeeeeeeeeeery delicious!!!

They serve buta-don and miso soup only. I ordered "ume", the second biggest portion in the restaurant, and miso soup with nameko mushrooms this time.

～Just for reference～
*Menu*
Duta-don
■Matsu---small portion
■Take---normal portion
■Ume---the second biggest portion
■Hana---the biggest portion
*Notice* "Hana" is very BIG! Be careful when you order it!

First, they served green tea and takuwan (pickled daikon radish)↓

Voila!
This is buta-don and miso soup! Let's open the lid!

Look very delicious, don't they? Sliced pork is char-grilled and seasoned with soy sauce-flavored sauce.

Depending on the restaurants, the topping is different such as green peas and thinly-sliced naganegi onion.

The pork is produced in this area and very juicy!!! Yummy x 2!!!

Well, well, well,
for pork lovers in the world!
To tell the truth, I have ordered "hana"--the biggest portion-- in the restaurant before....... I'm sure you must be surprised at the EXTRA-LARGE portion!

Are you ready???
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This is "hana"!↓
Wow! Wow! Wow! The lid does NOT work as a lid!

 Actually, seven pieces of pork steak are on the rice bowl! We were so impressed with this volume!!!

Butadon is so popular in Obihiro that there are a lot of butadon restaurants in and around this city. I really recommend you to visit several different restaurants and compare with each butadon!

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