About a minute’s drive from Naha Airport. It is a long-established curry restaurant located in Umosa, Nago City. In this day and age, you can eat curry for as little as 500 yen! Curry is served with a separate sauce and a variety of toppings! Many people buy take-out lunch boxes, and the place is always crowded.
Point 1: What is the location of “Pocket Marnie Nago”?
Pocket Manny Nago” is a curry specialty restaurant located in Nago City in the northern part of Okinawa’s main island.
The main branch is located in Shuri, and there is also a branch in Ginowan. However, it does not look like a chain restaurant, rather, it has its unique product lineup, which is a great thing about this long-established restaurant.
Perhaps it is the proximity to Hokubu Norin High School and Meizo University that attracts the younger crowd, but there are also some working people who seem to have gone to great lengths to come here to eat.
There are many gourmet restaurants in Nago, but there is also a long-established steak restaurant nearby called Furippa, which has become a famous restaurant among gourmet poppers in Nago, but it may be a hidden gem since it has not been introduced much on SNS yet.
It takes about 1 hour and 16 minutes from Naha Airport via Okinawa Expressway.
By bus, take Ryukyu Bus No. 111 or 117 to “Nago Bus Terminal” and get off at “Nago Bus Terminal” and walk 1 minute!
The old signboard may not be the most flattering, but I guess it is their policy to spend more money on the inside than on the outside or the interior.
First, take a seat, and write down your order, not by checking a box on a form provided, but by placing your order at the counter.
When the food is ready, you are called to pick it up. When you are done eating, you clean up after yourself.
Water and drinks are also self-service.
Point 2: What is the recommended menu for “Pocket Marnie Nago”?
The recommended menu items at Pocket Manny Nago are Katsu Curry and Indian Curry.
The garlic Indian-style curry has a particularly good reputation, and even with the luxurious shrimp cutlet as a topping, it is priced at no more than 800 yen.
The curry is served in a pot of curry sauce, giving it a very luxurious feel.
Toppings range from meatballs and tonkatsu to fried shrimp, Kushikatsu, and chicken Karaage for 120 to 180 yen. You may be tempted to add all kinds of toppings because of the low price, but you should hold off on that!
Salads are also available, including vegetable salad (200 yen) and burdock root salad (250 yen), each with a 50 yen discount if paired with curry.
The spiciness can be selected from the nostalgic sweet to 15 times spicier, with an additional charge of 20 to 100 yen starting at 6 times spicier.
The spiciness starts at around 6 times the original spiciness, so be careful when adding spiciness to Indian-style curries, which are originally spicy!
Point 3: “Pocket Marnie Nago” and other menu items!
Pocket Manny Nago also offers other unusual curry dishes.
The “fried saury curry” and “Kushikatsu (skewered pork cutlets) curry” are the most unusual ones. There are also “Healthy Indian Chicken Curry” and “Healthy Vegetable Curry” with half the usual amount of rice.
Natto Curry and Boiled Egg Curry are also available.
The healthy curry menu is characterized by the reduced amount of fish and rice, as well as attention to protein intake such as natto and boiled egg!
In addition, each curry menu comes with an S-size drink from a selection of iced tea, iced oolong tea, and iced coffee, but you can also order a drink by itself for 100 yen for an S and 300 yen for an L.
Many of the customers look like students from the nearby Nasakura University, but there are also working people who have come all the way from far away to eat here.
Located in the center of Nago City, Pocket Manny Nago has three chain restaurants on the main island of Okinawa, but it does not feel like a chain restaurant and is a curry specialty restaurant of strong competence.
The popular menu items are curry with pork cutlet and Indian-style curry, but it is always crowded with take-out customers because of the wide variety of toppings and the low price with drinks included. It is not just a chain restaurant, so you can find it in Naha, but please come and visit.
