About 27 minutes by car from Naha Airport. It is an Okinawa soba specialty restaurant located in Yonabaru-cho, central Okinawa Island. The most popular dish is the Okinawa soba with chicken cutlet on top and chicken-based broth, which is very hearty and exquisite! Of course, there are regular Okinawa soba, but there are also many varieties of Okinawa soba.
Point 1: What is the location and overview of “Okinawa soba specialty restaurant Yonabaruya”?
Okinawa Soba Specialty Restaurant Yonabaru-ke is located in Yonabaru-cho on the Pacific Ocean side of central Okinawa Island. It has been in business for 35 years in Yonabaru-cho. There are many Okinawa soba restaurants in Okinawa, but Yonabaruya is one of the oldest.
The restaurant opens at 11:00 a.m., but there are already many cars in the spacious parking lot even before the restaurant opens.
The restaurant specializes in a huge variety of Okinawan soba noodles, and the portions are very generous. The restaurant also offers a wide variety of dishes other than Okinawa soba.
A restaurant that has put its heart and soul into its business for many years will always win the hearts of its customers.
Point 2: What is “Chicken Soba” at “Okinawa Soba Specialty Restaurant Yonabaraya”?
Okinawa Soba Specialty Restaurant Yonabaraya has an unusual Okinawa soba dish called “Chicken Soba.
The chicken cutlet is deep-fried using special breadcrumbs and chicken meat soaked in the Okinawa soba broth, but it has a strange texture that makes it crispy when you bite into it.
In Hong Kong and other countries, there is a type of ramen called “perkoh noodle” with pork cutlet on top, and I would have to say that Okinawa is also influenced by Asian food culture.
Many people order the restaurant’s hooch bar (mugwort) filled jushii together. If you pour the leftover juice from the Okinawa soba over the hooch bar jushii, the soba broth and chicken broth will become entwined with the jushii, creating a “forbidden taste”!
Point 3: What else is on the menu at “Okinawa soba specialty restaurant Yonabaraya”?
In addition to chicken soba and regular Okinawa soba, “Okinawa soba specialty restaurant Yonabaru-ke” offers many other unusual Okinawan soba dishes.
Take, for example, the “Nimitsuke Soba” shown in the photo. It looks like it has a strong flavor, but it is very refreshing and hearty, with a substantial amount of tripe, soki, and vegetables. It is healthier and less salty than oden!
There is also “Loin Soba” with succulent loin, “Tebichi Soba” with a large tebichi on top, “Kwacchi Soba” with three pieces of meat, soki, and tebichi all at once, and “Chanpuru Soba” with chanpuru on top of soba.
The “Kwachii Soba” is over 1,000 yen, but most of the other dishes, even the large ones, are in the 700 yen range, making them very reasonably priced.
The menu is also very extensive, with chicken katsu set menus, boiled fish set menus, soba set menus, curry rice, chicken curry, and children’s soba sets also available.
