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Seasoning and toppings to your liking! Yakisoba-ya" is a fun place to customize your own yakisoba!
A retro signboard suddenly appears on the basement floor near Odori Subway Station. Yakisoba-ya" is a popular restaurant among those in the know, with many regular customers from long ago. It is a popular and well-known restaurant with many regular customers, especially for hungry students and businessmen who want to have a quick lunch. This time, we would like to introduce a slightly different and unique system of yakisoba noodle shops.
After passing through the orange curtain, you purchase a meal ticket and sit down at the U-shaped counter. The amount of yakisoba available starts from 380 yen for "Normal" (1 bowl), 440 yen for "Large" (1.5 bowls), and the most popular is 500 yen for "Jumbo" (2 bowls), which includes tax. It is nice to be able to choose according to how hungry you are.
The yakisoba that arrives at your table is very simple. The seasoning is kept to a minimum with only salt and pepper, which may come as a surprise to first-timers. But don't worry, that surprise will soon turn to excitement. If you look at the tabletop, you will see many seasonings. Yes, this is a very playful restaurant where you can customize the yakisoba to your liking.
The seasonings vary from the orthodox ones such as soy sauce and sauce to more unusual ones such as kimchi, raayu, yakiniku flavor, sesame vinegar soy sauce, and so on. It is fun to add various seasonings little by little as you eat to find your favorite flavor. When asked what the restaurant recommends, the answer was a mix of special sauce and raayu (Chinese chili oil).
One of the regulars told me that the sesame vinegar soy sauce and mayonnaise were delicious. Looking at the menu again, we noticed that there are many toppings. I asked for the most popular combination and this is what came up.
This is a very hearty dish of 2.5 eggs worth of "Super" (560 yen including tax) topped with "egg + wiener" (170 yen including tax). Other toppings range from standard items such as squid and shrimp to unusual items to pair with yakisoba, such as hamburger steak and fried ham, making it hard to decide.
And for the indecisive, there is a menu to help you decide. A set of several toppings is available for a good price.
The photo above is the "A Set" with one bowl of noodles topped with shrimp, squid, egg, gomoku vegetables, and shredded cabbage. This comes with soup for 680 yen including tax, so it must be quite a bargain. If you look closely at the logo of the yakisoba restaurant, you will see the characters for "delicious," "cheap," "many," and "fast.
This is exactly the way visitors leave the restaurant after quickly and deliciously devouring yakisoba noodles topped with their favorite toppings. The current restaurant opened in 1985, and the old-fashioned behavior of the regular customers must be well established.
It would be cool if you could find the best amount and taste for yourself after visiting the restaurant several times and someday acquire such manners.
Yakisoba-ya
Location: Shin Odori Building B1F, Odori-nishi 4-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido
Contact: 011-241-6337
After passing through the orange curtain, you purchase a meal ticket and sit down at the U-shaped counter. The amount of yakisoba available starts from 380 yen for "Normal" (1 bowl), 440 yen for "Large" (1.5 bowls), and the most popular is 500 yen for "Jumbo" (2 bowls), which includes tax. It is nice to be able to choose according to how hungry you are.
The yakisoba that arrives at your table is very simple. The seasoning is kept to a minimum with only salt and pepper, which may come as a surprise to first-timers. But don't worry, that surprise will soon turn to excitement. If you look at the tabletop, you will see many seasonings. Yes, this is a very playful restaurant where you can customize the yakisoba to your liking.
The seasonings vary from the orthodox ones such as soy sauce and sauce to more unusual ones such as kimchi, raayu, yakiniku flavor, sesame vinegar soy sauce, and so on. It is fun to add various seasonings little by little as you eat to find your favorite flavor. When asked what the restaurant recommends, the answer was a mix of special sauce and raayu (Chinese chili oil).
One of the regulars told me that the sesame vinegar soy sauce and mayonnaise were delicious. Looking at the menu again, we noticed that there are many toppings. I asked for the most popular combination and this is what came up.
This is a very hearty dish of 2.5 eggs worth of "Super" (560 yen including tax) topped with "egg + wiener" (170 yen including tax). Other toppings range from standard items such as squid and shrimp to unusual items to pair with yakisoba, such as hamburger steak and fried ham, making it hard to decide.
And for the indecisive, there is a menu to help you decide. A set of several toppings is available for a good price.
The photo above is the "A Set" with one bowl of noodles topped with shrimp, squid, egg, gomoku vegetables, and shredded cabbage. This comes with soup for 680 yen including tax, so it must be quite a bargain. If you look closely at the logo of the yakisoba restaurant, you will see the characters for "delicious," "cheap," "many," and "fast.
This is exactly the way visitors leave the restaurant after quickly and deliciously devouring yakisoba noodles topped with their favorite toppings. The current restaurant opened in 1985, and the old-fashioned behavior of the regular customers must be well established.
It would be cool if you could find the best amount and taste for yourself after visiting the restaurant several times and someday acquire such manners.
Yakisoba-ya
Location: Shin Odori Building B1F, Odori-nishi 4-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido
Contact: 011-241-6337
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