Niboshi

For a meal around the hot pot, start with the signature Niboshi-style offal hot pot. The menu lists a single-serving option, and some visitors have said they enjoyed its well-developed flavour. Other choices include chicken meatball hot pot, spicy beef hot pot, pork shabu-shabu and offal kimchi jjigae. With different levels of heat and ingredients to choose from, the range makes it easy to find a pot to suit the group.

Extra ingredients include pork, offal and locally raised chicken, as well as a vegetable platter with either Chinese cabbage or cabbage. For the final course, there is a special rice-porridge set or flat noodles, so you can decide whether to finish with rice or noodles. The menu also has small plates, and one visitor described taking their time over a meal of offal hot pot and other dishes. A few choices such as handmade thick fried tofu or Tsuruhashi kimchi would make a good accompaniment while the pot comes to the boil.

There is also an offal hot pot set to take away. Set A for 2 people includes hot-pot ingredients, sliced beef steak, cheese mince cutlets and noodles for the finish. One person who took home a set for 2 people reported being pleased with the generous portions of hot pot, steak and cheese cutlets. In Sekime, Joto Ward, Osaka, Niboshi has both counter and table seating, and its listed set menus include hot pot and free-flow drinks. It offers options for a meal around the table with a group or for enjoying hot pot at home.