About 37 minutes by car from Naha Airport. This teishoku restaurant is located along Ginowan Hills, a street with many relatively new restaurants. It is loved by locals and cab drivers who know where to find the best food. What kind of restaurant is it?
Point 1: What is the location of “Dining Yama”?
Restaurant Yama is located in the central part of Okinawa’s main island, inland from Ginowan City, almost near Nakagusuku Village.
From the direction of Naha Airport, take Route 58 north to Prefectural Route 81, a relatively new street called Ginowan Hills Street.
This area was once a U.S. military base that was returned to the U.S., and many new stores have opened in the area. When you see a new restaurant and look at the address, you will often find that it is in this area.
The exterior and interior of “Meal House Yama” is like a nostalgic Showa-era snack bar. It’s nice to be able to casually go in without feeling self-conscious.
Point 2: What is the signature menu of “Meal House Yama”?
As the sign says, “Yushi-dofu” is the signature dish at Yama Restaurant.
Once you try the warm, fluffy tofu, you will become addicted to it.
Yushi-dofu is available in miso, salted, and raw flavors, each reasonably priced at 600 yen! If you want to add artha (Japanese chives), the price is an additional 50 yen. Yushi-dofu comes with okara (bean curd), pickles, and rice.
The restaurant was originally a tofu store soon after the war, and tofu dishes are a specialty of the restaurant!
Other tofu dishes on the menu include tofu chanpuru, mapo tofu, and bitter gourd chanpuru.
Okinawa is a very tasty place for tofu, perhaps because of the good water, so we hope you will try it.
Point 3: What else is on the menu at “Meal House Yama”?
Yama Restaurant also offers a strong selection of set meals to support the stomachs of hungry locals and cab drivers.
The set meals other than tofu-based dishes include pork and egg, croquette, pork cutlet, and stir-fried vegetable set meals (both 780 yen), and the “Yama Lunch” (900 yen), which includes a side dish of rice, is also popular.
The set menus are also unique in that they come with “Otona no Furikake” (sprinkles for adults)!
Curry rice (680 yen) and curry rice with pork cutlet (900 yen) are also available.
There are also omelette rice, pork cutlet rice, pork rice bowl (both 780 yen), fried rice, egg rice bowl, and yakisoba (both 730 yen). We are glad that the prices are reasonable while the food is tasty and the portions are decent.
