CONTRIBUTED BY SUZY

I know that there is another Indian restaurant listed here on Okinawahai but I wanted to give yet another option for those who love Indian Cuisine. Kabab’s Indian Restaurant is my now favorite place to eat on the entire island. I’ve become so enamored with this place that I’m now more than positive that I will never return to the other. I have crossed into the world of Curry and there is no return!

Their menu is huge and literally everything that I have tried thus far has been delightful. The Chicken Masala is my favorite. I usually order it within one of their sets. The dinner/weekend lunch set that I choose starts off with a salad (coleslaw-ish with what I’m assuming is topped with a sesame dressing which my 3 yr old tries to lick off of my plate, literally), soup, chicken tandoori, Naan or rice (get the Naan, get the Naan!!!), your choice of curry (followed by choice of heat), drink, and a desert for a set price. I will say that the weekday lunch prices are really, really affordable! I think the only difference in the lunch set vs. the dinner was the soup and the curry portion size but it was still a lot of food. I’m pretty sure that my set for lunch was about 950 yen and my dinner set (which had a lot more food) was 2200 yen. My husband ordered a similar set but his included a Kabab which was sort of like a spiced sausage that has similar seasonings to that of tandoori chicken. His dinner set was 2400 yen and I think the same lunch set would have been about 1050 yen on a weekday.

On the weekends Kabab’s offers a kids set that included a salad, rice or baby naan, chicken korma (yogurt/coconut milk sauce), jello, and a drink for 750 yen. I usually just share my food with my daughter and add a small order of rice because there is literally so much food but we opted for the kids set the last time we visited. She ate almost all of it so I think the chicken korma is a keeper!

I also want to mention that the Naan comes in 3 flavors…plain, rosemary, or garlic. The flavored Naan is fabulous! I had never had rosemary or garlic naan until I went there and I now have delicious dreams of it. If Samosas are your thing…they are very tasty here as well. The other recommendation that I have is to try the Mango dessert. We ordered it the very first time we visited and it was really good. Kababs takes yen as well as credit cards for payment and I just realized that you can also order their food from anywhere in Japan and have it shipped. So, if you by chance end up in Tokyo and are craving their food feel free to place an order! If you have time to browse through their website, you’ll see some amazing pictures of their dishes which literally look exactly like the food served there (no fake food shots there:)! Here are a couple of websites I found on Kabab’s while researching…

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.rakuten.co.jp/kababs/index.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.rakuten.co.jp/kababs/%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG or their regular untranslated site…
http://www.rakuten.co.jp/kababs/

and here’s an old review I found on Japan Update (the review gives old hours of operation however and I couldn’t find any current information on the Urasoe branch)…
http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=6832

HOURS:
They are now (as of Nov.) only open for lunch on Friday-Sunday (sat. and sun. lunch sets cost a little more) from 11:30-3:00 with the last order being taken at 2:30 pm and they are open for dinner everyday but Monday from 5-11 pm with the last order being taken at 10 pm.

DIRECTIONS:
Kabab’s is located between Camp Lester and Kadena Air Base gate 1 on 58 directly above Obligatos Mexican Restaraunt (up the outside stairs on the far right hand side). You can contact them by phone at 098-936-9998 or by email at [email protected].

If you haven’t been to Kabab’s yet, you must go and check out this lovely restaurant! I believe you’ll become just as infatuated with it as we have.