A 150-Year-Old Chawanmushi Restaurant in Nagasaki, Japan

I love Yossou. Places like this are what we love most about travel.

It’s important to us to find the best places to eat whenever we travel. And by “best places”, I’m not talking about the trendiest or most expensive. I’m talking about places that have withstood the test of time and been around for decades. Many of them are family-run restaurants. Handed down from generation to generation, they usually specialize in just one or two dishes. It’s amazing enough to find places like that that have been around for 30, 40, even 50 years. But when I go to a restaurant like Yossou, which has been setting the standard for chawanmushi in Nagasaki for over 150 years, my level of excitement takes on a whole different level.

Yossou is a Certificate of Excellence awardee and the number one rated restaurant on TripAdvisor. If you like chawanmushi, then you need to eat here.

Yossou is located in Kankodori Shopping Arcade just off the main street. It can be a little…