Chicken rice with salsa? If you come to Okinawa, you must try the “Oshiro Chicken Rice” original chicken rice!
Point 1: Okinawan-style chicken rice? What is “Oshiro Chicken Rice” original chicken rice?
Chicken rice has been called differently: chicken rice, Khao Mangai, and chicken rice, and has been eaten in Amami style, Chinese Hainanese style, Thai style, Singaporean style, and many other Asian regions.
Chicken rice here is shredded chicken meat served on rice cooked in broth.
The chicken rice prepared by Mr. Ogi, a Tokyo native who moved to Okinawa in 2012 after traveling around the world, has an Asian flavor. It is wonderful that he is from Tokyo, yet his name, Mr. Ogi, is common in Okinawa.
Naturally, chicken rice has been eaten in Okinawa, which is influenced by Asian culture, but the chicken rice here at Ogi Chicken Rice is served with salsa sauce.
At first glance, it looks like Yamagata’s pickled “dashi,” but the salsa sauce, which includes cucumbers, tomatoes, and other diced vegetables, is an original and unique chicken rice dish that can be found nowhere else in the world.
The rice is perfectly salted, and the juicy chicken flavor spreads in your mouth. The salsa flavor is a perfect complement to the rice. You can choose between normal or spicy salsa sauce.
The chicken rice is 800 yen, but you can also choose to add a flavored egg for 100 yen, soup, pak choi, and jalapeño peppers for 50 yen each. We hope you will try it with “all of them on top”.
Point 2: The soup and flavored eggs in “Ojo Chicken Rice” are also good and recommended!
Whether in Thailand, Singapore, or Amami, chicken rice always comes with soup made from chicken stock, but the soup (50 yen) and aji-tama (100 yen) at Oshiro Chicken Rice are also a must-try.
Although only 50 yen, the soup is so thick that you will want to drink as many cups as you can, as if the chicken flavor has been condensed, and the Ajitama is so delicious that there is no way to describe how good it is, with its perfectly half-boiled eggs.
This soup and the Ajitama are so good that I can assure you, “Spare 150 yen for the optional toppings, or you will regret it!” I can say with certainty that you will regret it if you spare 150 yen for the optional toppings.
Point 3: “Ojo Chicken Rice” can be take-acted!
There was a time when Oshiro Chicken Rice specialized in takeout when Corona was raging in Okinawa, but takeout is still welcome.
Takeout is the same price and includes rice and chicken in a pack, and salsa sauce in a separate pack.
If you are a traveler, you can also take out and eat at a nearby park or beach.
There is also a park called “Center Park” about a 100-meter walk from the Ojo Chicken Rice!
Also, I have heard reports that this chicken rice is very tasty if you put garlic salt on it! There are also reports that the chicken rice is very tasty!
