About 50 minutes by car from Naha Airport. Located on the outskirts of Chatan Town, it is a well-known and well-known Okinawa soba restaurant. Some say it is “probably the best! If you want to try high-grade Okinawa soba, you cannot leave without stopping by!
Point 1: What is the number one most popular menu item at “Hamaya”?
One of the most well-known and well-known Okinawa soba restaurants is “Hamaya” in Chatan-cho.
Open from 10:00 to 17:30, the hours are long for an Okinawa soba restaurant, but even so, there is always a line. The parking lot near the restaurant can hold only two cars, but seven cars can be parked a short distance away.
When you enter the restaurant, you will see that it is indeed a popular restaurant! As is the case with many udon restaurants in Shikoku, there are autographs of famous people all over the place. Is it because they are visiting for a camping trip? The autographs of professional baseball players are conspicuous.
The customers seated here are various, including Japanese, Chinese, and Westerners who look like tourists. Nowadays, foreigners come all the way to Okinawa after hearing about the restaurant’s reputation on the Internet.
There are so many Okinawa soba restaurants in Okinawa, but many of them do not have any distinctive features that people can remember.
But even if the characteristics have faded in people’s memories, they are still left with the absolute impression that “Hamaya is good! Even though the characteristics of the restaurant may fade in people’s memories, the restaurant that leaves a definite impression is HAMAYA.
The most popular Okinawa soba at Hamaya is “Hamaya soba” (large 800 yen, small 530 yen). The soft, tender pork ribs melt in your mouth and are easily loosened with chopsticks, followed by a mouthful of flavorful fat.
The thick, chigiri noodles are well mixed with the salty, refreshing soup, which is topped with a shredded thinly sliced egg.
Even the soup is delicious, so much so that there are people who drink it all down and then just have another bowl of soup, which is a nod to the deliciousness of the soup.
Point 2: “Hamaya’s” Okinawa soba, which contains both cartilage soki and tripe, is also popular!
There are many Okinawa soba dishes at Hamaya, but the Okinawa soba (large 850 yen, small 530 yen) is the one where you can enjoy both cartilage Soki and Sampai meat.
The soup is thick, and the pork bone broth and bonito broth are perfectly mixed! Many people find the pork bone broth alone to be too rich, but the addition of the bonito broth makes it just the right thickness.
While Hamaya Soba has a strong salty taste, this one has a little bit of soy sauce added.
Also, the sweet and moderately textured tripe meat and the tenderly braised cartilage Soki that is strewn about the place will make you addicted to the dish!
Point 3: The juicy or boiled tofu from “Hamaya” is also hard to throw away!
All the dishes on the “Hamaya” menu are delicious. Since I have come all the way here, I would like to eat the most popular one, but there is also a part of me that would like to try a change of pace.
In that case, you should try the “Yushi Tofu Soba” (650 yen). This “Yushi Tofu Soba” comes with rice, which can be changed to “juicy” Okinawan-style cooked rice for an additional 100 yen.
It is the happiest thing in the world to be able to taste Yushi Tofu and Okinawan Soba at the same time! The tender taste of the tofu in the form of a doughy tofu will fill your mouth with a delicious flavor.
The succulent juicy tofu is filled with hijiki, carrots, and shiitake mushrooms, and is juicy and delicious. It tastes even better when served with Takuan (pickled radish), which is available at the self-service counter.
If you add the juice to the Yushi Tofu Soba, the price is only 750 yen, so be sure to try the 250 yen Okinawa Zenzai (Okinawa Zenzai with soybean paste)!
