About 38 minutes by car from Naha Airport. It is a restaurant specializing in roast chicken located in the central part of the main island of Okinawa. The garlic-flavored chicken became popular on a TV program introducing Okinawan culture! What kind of restaurant is it?
Point 1: “Bueno Chicken Futenma” is a long-established restaurant that has been in business for over 40 years!
Bueno Chicken Futenma was established in 1982. Although today, grilled whole chicken is an everyday food in Okinawa, the restaurant began by selling it from door to door, which was still a rarity at the time.
Perhaps because of the history of U.S. military bases and immigrants in the area, the acceptance of the whole roasted chicken was relatively quick, and the restaurant quickly became popular for its “unique taste! It quickly became a popular restaurant.
Nowadays, fried chicken is available everywhere, but there are very few places where roast chicken is served on a daily basis outside of Christmas.
Bueno Chicken’s roast chicken is sold by the half wing (1.2 servings, 1,000 yen) or one wing (3.4 servings, 1,000 yen), or online, but be aware that the price is different between inside and outside Okinawa Prefecture!
Many Okinawan residents and even travelers go there to take out for this taste every time they visit Okinawa. (There is an eat-in space, but it is closed irregularly.)
Incidentally, there is also that “King Taco” on the same street! They are the two masters of Okinawan gourmet food.
Point 2: What is the secret of the taste of the roasted chicken at Bueno Chicken Futenma?
Bueno Chicken Futenma uses young Okinawan Yanbaru chickens, which are marinated in a dipping sauce of vinegar, garlic, and herbs for two days before being grilled in a special roaster for two hours.
The young chicken is filled with garlic cloves that are cut by hand to a crunchy size, and the amount used is said to be 4 tons per year!
While some garlic is peeled and pre-cut in the market, the best garlic is peeled by hand, one by one, and time is spent on it.
Furthermore, the vinegar in the dipping sauce is good for relieving fatigue and improving the intestinal environment, and people in the prefecture also use it as a gift because it is energizing.
It is a wonder that when you eat the savory and juicy chicken, you do not feel the sourness of the vinegar, and the garlic inside becomes milder!
Some people ask, “Do you really use vinegar?” I am sometimes asked, “Are you really using vinegar?
It is delicious because they dare not use ready-made products and take their time to make it!
The official website also includes recipes using leftover bueno chicken, including salads, sandwiches, Okinawa soba noodles with bueno nokke, yushi tofu with broth made from the bones after eating bueno, toppings for pizza dough, and many other unique dishes!
Please take a look!
Point 3: Is there a “Bueno Chicken Futenma” branch?
Bueno Chicken Futenma” has a branch in Urasoe, called “Okinawa Round Chicken Factory Bueno Chicken Urasoe”.
The location is in Urasoe City Ma, a subtle 12-minute walk from Furujima Station on the Yureru Line.
This restaurant seems to have an eat-in space, and baby strollers and wheelchairs are allowed to enter.
We are happy to have a friendly stance toward all people.
