Although there are a handful of good burrito joints in the Kansai region, Que Pasa ranks near the top of any list of restaurants serving up good Mexican food. When Ryota Kurokawa, owner of Que Pasa, graduated from Waseda University in 2014, he didn’t want to affix himself to corporate life. On his father’s suggestion, he moved to Kyoto to help him run a nascent coriander wholesale business. While working, Kurokawa seriously considered a question he had been entertaining for the best part of six years: “Where are all the burritos in Japan?” When Kurokawa was 9, his father quit his job as a salaryman in Japan and moved the family across the Pacific, where they lived for the next decade in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tex-Mex cuisine, including burritos, played an outsize influence on the young immigrant. “I just decided I would make them,” he says, turning to YouTube to figure out how to make the burritos. At Que Pasa, the menu is limited: Burritos are the stars, but there’s also room for quesadillas and coriander salad. Every Tuesday, Kurokawa puts on “Taco Tuesday,” and occasionally he has a full vegan menu. Kurokawa recounts that on opening day, 40 people turned up, and that was without any promotional drive, it was purely through word of mouth. Clearly, there’s an appetite for burritos in the city, or at least the right kind of burritos. (J.J. O’Donoghue photo)
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