Yuimaru

At lunchtime, Yuimaru pairs Okinawa soba with a mini bowl of your choice: taco rice, soki pork rice or jūshī, Okinawan seasoned rice. One weekday visitor chose the taco rice and said the small serving of mozuku seaweed was a welcome accent to the meal. You can make the soba the focus, or add a rice dish for another taste of Okinawa.

Taco rice is also available on its own, with a fried egg as an optional topping for an additional 100 yen. A diner who ate Okinawan food in Sangenjaya singled out the taco rice as particularly memorable. To finish the meal, there is Okinawa soba, or soki soba, which the menu describes as having tender cartilage-in soki pork.

For a small dish, consider the house-made jimami tofu, prepared with fresh peanuts. One first-time taster wrote that they enjoyed the restaurant’s version. Another dish to look out for is boroboro jūshī, described as an Okinawan rice porridge. A diner who tried it liked it as something quite different from the more familiar jūshī, which is closer to seasoned rice.

Those looking for a drink to go with their meal can choose from a selection of awamori by the glass. Orion draft beer comes in a mug, glass or mega mug. The listed course for sharing with friends or family includes 8 Okinawan dishes, such as sea grapes, mimigā, hirayāchī, chanpurū and taco rice, with 2 hours of all-you-can-drink.