Shuri Soba

Shuri Soba is a traditional Okinawan soba and rice-pot restaurant in a quiet residential alley near Shuri Castle in Okinawa. It serves Shuri Soba topped with chashu, Okinawa-style meat rice-pot jushi, and softly simmered chashu with simmered yuba, daikon, and mushrooms. A line forms before opening, and customers wait without a waiting list and pay in cash only. The noodles are hand-cut with uneven thickness and a firm texture that snaps rather than bends, as if undercooked, which divides opinion.