Restaurant Toyoken — Restaurant in Beppu

My aunt recommended here because she heard this restaurant’s Toriten is so good. We went to there without booking around 20:00 and there was a loooong line. Maybe waited about 40-50 minutes. We ordered 1800 yen Toriten ,Mapo tofu set with desert and it was nice and seems very reasonable price for it, too. However I was not that hungry so could not finish everything and asked them to put them into the container for take away.

One of the staff boy seems like got used with with busy store situation and not friendly at all and even seems like any short conversation with customers are not welcomed. I understand the restaurant is busy so they sell food but don’t sell smiles.

They also sell the “ kabosu vinegar “ which tastes very good I wanted to buy it but it was little bit over sized and gave up. My friends were very happy in here and one of them are from local so pretty sure she will come back to...

Came to visit during Obon travel season. Ended up waiting for about an hour till the seat was freed up. There is a University in the area so young people come by alongside the visitors. The service was good, though.

This place is famous for being the original place of Toriten (chicken tempura). The meat was very juicy. I ordered yuzu toriten (chicken tempura with citrus pepper flavoring) but I could not quite taste the citrus pepper. The other food on the menu looks like standard Japanese-style Chinese food.

As toriten is a food Oita is famous for, I would recommend giving it a try. Although I don’t think it’s worth an...

Was recommended this place by one of the hotel staff. Came at opening time 5pm and there were 7-8 other groups (locals) waiting. Tip; when you come - register your name + number of pax on the sheet and they will call your name once table is available. We just wrote our English name and no issues with that.

Service is fast and efficient. One look at the menu and you would immediately assume it’s a Chinese restaurant based on the Chinese dishes. There is English menu available too.

Food tasted great and kudos to the chef because his fried rice for kids meal had a lot of “wok hey” - definitely beat a lot of other Chinese...