Another states that Shinjiro SHIMADA, who had retired from being Kunai-sho Daizen-shiki (the Office of the Palace Table of the Ministry of the Sovereign's Household), opened a Western-style restaurant called "Ponchi-ken" in Ueno in 1929, and was the first to serve it.
1929年に宮内省大膳職を退職した島田信二郎が、上野にぽんち軒という洋食店を開きそこで売り出された。