This may just be your next favorite restaurant.
Japan is no doubt on everyone’s travel bucket list, and with good reason, their food is amazing. If you’re pre-gaming for your next trip to Tokyo, you need to checkout this famous restaurant chain from Kayabacho.
Yayoi (or more popularly known as “YAYOI-KEN” in Japan) is a contemporary Japanese restaurant offering set menu dining called Teishoku–a balanced tray of rice, miso soup, tsukemono (Japanese pickles), a main dish and a side dish.
Fun fact: Yayoi, pronounced as ya-yo-wee, means 'spring' or 'growing'.
YAYOI-KEN restaurants is operated by the Plenus group and currently has hundreds of branches spread across the globe including Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, USA, and a flagship restaurant and sake bar in Sydney, Australia. It’s a famous stop for both tourists and locals who want a filling meal at value prices.
Set menus are a big part of the Filipino dining culture, which is why managing directors, Yvonne Yao and Jacqueline Gobing, found the concept perfect for Manila. After a year of talks and planning, Yayoi is finally ready to serve Manila!
Customers can order their meals, and call for service, on iPads attached to each table.
Aside from the variety of small plates, a Teishoku set also showcases different cooking methods–using seasonal ingredients that promotes a healthy diet. You can expect a mix of vegetables and a variety of proteins in your meals. Here are five of their bestselling sets that you can enjoy.
Teishoku sets usually come with a serving of Japanese rice, a main dish, hot miso soup, and Tsukemono Japanese pickles.
Fun fact: Ichiju-sansai directly translates to "one soup, three sides". This term refers to a meal consisting of rice and soup accompanied with three dishes (one main dish + two side dishes).
Namban Teishoku
Fried chicken steak in sweet and sour sauce and topped with our special Yayoi tartar sauce. This is one of Yayoi’s signature set.
Hitsumabushi
Nagoya-style grilled eel over rice and served with a side of dashi broth.
This set comes with an instruction on how best to enjoy it, four ways!
Saba Shio Teishoku
Salt-grilled mackerel
Sukiyaki Teishoku (Must Try!)
Beef hot-pot with assorted vegetables stewed in sukiyaki sauce.
Mix Toji Teishoku
Breaded pork loin, fried shrimp and sukiyaki beef simmered in special sauce and egg. If you want to try a variety of dishes in one set, this is a great choice.
Insider tip: Upgrade your miso soup to Asari (clams) miso soup for only P70.
A la carte options and single jyu boxes are also available for people who can’t finish one whole set. There’s even kid’s udon sets.
Yayoi offers a simple dessert menu, starting with its signature Matcha Warabi Mochi, a dessert jelly made from bracken starch coated and with green tea powder and topped with sweet syrup.
You may also try its Ohagi or the steamed sticky rice ball smothered in sweet azuki beans.
The wait is over because Yayoi opens today, September 16! In the meantime you can follow us on Instagram (@bookyapp) for more new restaurant alerts and the latest food events in the Metro.
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