
New Order: Veggie-packed Soup Curry
No Need to Shout Your Vegan Credentials When the Food is This Good
“The food we serve is vegan, sure,” explains Riko, “but our main concern is that it’s delicious. Too much focus on the vegan aspect might distract us from making sure it tastes good,” she says, tweaking the soup curries every day as necessary to ensure it’s just right.
Served in clay pots, New Order’s distinctive “end of the Shogunate era” soup curries are distinctive. For instance, the Shin (vegetable) option is filled with seasonal vegetables deep-fried and cut into chunks to keep them as close as possible to how they were when in the soil – right down to the roots in some cases!
With so many leafy greens and root vegetables, it’s hard to choose which to start with. Wherever you start, your senses are bathed in the aromas, flavors, and goodness of the earth’s seasonal bounty: juicy zucchini in the summer, naturally sweet carrots in the winter, and much more besides.
The soup is made with a stock extracted from vegetable scraps and other ingredients, and flavored with soy sauce koji yeast and other fermented seasonings, as well as nuts and spice-infused oil. It is flavorful, filling, and completely free of animal products.
Just like the team at New Order don’t show off their vegan credentials, they are equally modest about their use of all organic vegetables. Says Riko: “I want people to come and be like ‘That’s really nice’ without preconceived ideas about whether it’s vegan or not. We’re not satisfied to rest on our laurels, and we’ll keep pursuing perfection.”
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Name: NEW〇RDER
Address: 6-13-21 Tanimachi, Chuo-ku, Osaka City
Hours: Sat., Mon.: 12:00-20:00; Sun., Tue.: 11:00-16:00 (closes earlier if sold out)
Closed: Wed., Thu., Fri., other days on occasion
Getting there: 5 min. walk from Tanimachi 6-chome Stn. on the Osaka Metro
Seating: 2 counter seats, 10 table seats
Menu: Lunch/dinner: “End of the Shogunate era” soup curries: Shin (vegetable), Kai (seaweed), and Kin (mushroom) all ¥1,600
No foreign-languages menus available
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