Ujou Coffee — Restaurant in Okayama

A JapanEat® recommendation, this is a coffee shop sporting a unique Okayama version of Ebi Rice (Shrimp Rice). The meal came very quickly once ordered, and the entire flavor profile is incredibly unique. The sauce is a mix of curry powder, secret spices, squid ink, ketchup, and caramel. This leads to an incredibly complex and nuanced bite. It has a little bit of everything that makes it a very memorable dish and a very solid unique taste. Like all Okayama specialty meals, they add cooked peas to the meal, so don’t be a baby and eat your dang vegetables!

The Setouchi Lemonade is excellent--it is incredibly tart and lemony, with a delectable sweet afterbite. A much enjoyed palate cleanser and fantastic lemonade.

The Black Sesame Soft Serve tastes as advertised, and is your standard good Japanese Soft Serve Ice Cream mix. However, the addition of the sugary cornflakes at the bottom makes this more like a parfait, and was a very welcomed surprise!

This is a nice little small cafe that is good to try something completely unique to Okayama and something you probably will not find anywhere else. They have an English Menu, and...

This place was surprisingly great. We went in only because it was close to Okayama Castle. I ordered tonkatsu (Japanese-style pork cutlet) and it was one of the best I ever...

Polite staff, good food, and affordable prices. I was able to try Ebi Meshi and Demi Katsudon, which are unique to Okayama. There was even a staff member who spoke...