櫻花

Not "welcome." Welcome home.

Okaeri-nasai

Winters in Changchun are white. In the snow, the whole family gathered in the kitchen — kneading dough, rolling skins, folding dumplings.

Steam and laughter. We carried that memory, whole, to Nakano.

So before we say "come in," we want to say this: welcome home.

Every morning

A thousand, every morning.

Folded by hand. No machine.

Before dawn, the dough is kneaded. Each skin is rolled by hand, filled, then pleated between the fingers. Pork, beef, pan-fried, iron-skillet — different kinds, one method: by hand, with care.

Soup & pan-fried dumplings

手作り豚肉汁餃子Pork soup dumplings 6個¥58010個¥960
手作り牛肉汁餃子Beef soup dumplings 6個¥60010個¥1,000
焼き餃子Pan-fried gyoza —
鉄鍋棒餃子Iron-skillet stick gyoza —

A dumpling isn’t a dish. It’s the shape of a family.

From a mother’s kitchen in Changchun

From Changchun to Nakano

On a snowy evening, the kitchen window clouded white with steam. In the pot, pickled cabbage and pork simmered slow. The whole family around the table, folding dumplings, the night growing late — the warmest hour of a Northeastern home.

That flame, that motion of the hands, that taste — we moved it all into a small room in Nakano. The dumplings at Ouka are the Changchun winter kitchen itself.