Watanji

I came across this restaurant on the way to the hotel. I didn't have dinner, so I went in. Overall, I think it's better than the popular Nuanmu. Their bean sprouts are delicious. The char siu in the ramen is great.

The restaurant is not located on the main street, so you may need to look for a map in advance to get there. It is at the Asahibashi monorail station, and after exiting the gate, turn left to find the right direction. The food in the restaurant is first-rate and very authentic. The vegetable porridge, bitter melon fried eggs, yam noodles, pork knuckles, miso tofu, etc. are all very special and taste very good!

All beer (Sampo Raku) and Awamori you can drink for 2 hours for $15!! My dinner a few nights ago, the wine list alone was over $40 ($5 Orion draft, $5.50 Awamori). This is only a few blocks off the main drag. Only negative, for a very local Izakaya, there is no English menu and no English speaking staff. A small negative in a long list of positives.

A great izakaya, a quiet place in the bustling city. We booked dinner in advance. I heard that if you don't make a reservation, you may not be able to wait for a seat. We ordered a 4,000 yen set meal, with unlimited wine and very delicious dishes, which is very cost-effective. The recommended roasted pork trotters are really good, fragrant but not greasy, the fried chicken nuggets and shrimps are crispy and delicious, and the sauce is especially good, with a Western feel, and the bitter melon scrambled eggs are also particularly suitable for Chinese people's taste.

The atmosphere of the izakaya is super good. The menu of dishes every day is set by the chef, using seasonal ingredients. The menu is posted on the wall next to each table. Drinks are free to drink, which is why the atmosphere is so good. The dishes taste good too. The miso pork fried tofu is well received by everyone.

A very popular local restaurant in Okinawa, it is also very convenient near Kokusai-dori. We ordered a set meal of 40,000 yen per person, and the drinks are free flow, which is a great deal! The waiters here are very enthusiastic, and there is also a foreign boy, so there is no problem communicating in English. The set meal includes sashimi, vegetable salad, eel sushi, fried chicken + fried prawns, grilled pig's trotter + bacon, fried pork tofu, fried bitter melon with eggs, fried bean sprouts with wild grass, and fried squid noodles. The most praised tofu and bitter melon, Okinawa's tofu is a specialty, the local wild boar meat and tofu are homely and delicious, the meat flavor and the tofu's own taste are perfectly integrated, making people want to order another one! The bitter melon has a slight bitterness and brings out a hint of sweetness, which tastes very good with eggs, and everyone praises it. Roasted pig's trotters are also a feature here, with crispy skin and tender inside, which is very different from the usual taste of pig's trotters! In addition, I would like to praise the fried shrimp in the fried food, with a special dipping sauce, and the shrimp itself is sweet when you bite it. The cuttlefish noodles served at the end were also good, perfect as a main course to end the meal.

わたんじ 通堂町 The popular izakaya near the hotel has a small storefront, but it has a unique flavor when you enter the store. It is very popular and there is no absence. We entered the store at almost 10 o'clock in the evening, which shows that it is popular with locals. The waiter in the store treated us very politely. They accept customers with reservations. The hotel front desk helped us make reservations in advance, so we can sit directly. We happened to sit at the bar. A very handsome boy served us while busy with the side dishes. He looked like a Taiwanese boy, very much like the male lead Wang Dalu in "My Girlhood"! The staff here can speak some English, and the service is very warm and thoughtful. I ordered a few of their signature dishes. The tofu fish is very beautiful, and the green glass is not very beautiful! The kitchen and restaurant of this store are in the same area, but there is no smoke at all. The exhaust fan above is very effective! The last night in Japan ended successfully!

A shop I found online is an izakaya. It has no special features compared to the surrounding izakayas. It is not big, with four-person and six-person tables, but we were not allowed to sit down even though it was empty. They said that we needed to make an appointment in advance, so many of us squeezed at the bar, but the tourists who came later without an appointment sat down, and there were not as many as us. It was depressing. I saw the comments of netizens before that if you don’t order drinks, you need to pay a service fee of 100en. Later, I found that you need to pay a service fee of 1080en if you bring your own drinks. There is no reason or evidence. I just wrote down this price after talking to a chef or the manager in the store in Japanese. The drinks in the store are also much more expensive than other stores. Otherwise, I really want to leave after seeing netizens say that this one tastes good. As for the taste, it’s still okay, but there’s nothing special compared to other izakayas. There are many izakayas around, and you can go to other stores to experience it if you have the chance. This store may have more special barbecues such as roasted pig’s trotters, and the chef can cook, and really cook with a spoon, which may not be common in the local area. The taste of stir-fried food is similar to Chinese food. The serving speed is indeed very slow, so everyone should be mentally prepared. Fortunately, the chef will not make you wait all the time. He will serve you a dish first, and it will take about ten minutes for each dish to be served.