******NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS******Nanaya Japanese Kitchen recently opened in the Arcadia District of Phoenix Arizona. According to their menu they serve homestyle Japanese Food. Their menu is interesting and different with low prices so I assumed that the plates would be small but I was wrong.

They offer two kinds of ramen on their menu and both are chicken broth with tender chicken. One is creamy and the other is clear. We went with clear. We started out by sharing the Tori Chintan Ramen ($10.) They gave us a very large serving that is enough for two people. (maybe by accident?)

Here is my HALF!

The moist chicken breast is DELICIOUS and developed with flavors. It’s in a salt forward but very balanced broth enhanced with bamboo, asparagus, seaweed, chewy thin noodles and what they called a ramen egg. The egg seemed like a hard boiled egg to me. The chicken was really great in this dish even after traveling 35 minutes to get it home.

We shared a bunch of other dishes.

I’ll bring the food up closer.

We started with the spicy tuna sushi roll ($6.). It was prepared nice and neat but wasn’t really spicy. I liked that it didn’t fall apart. Next we shared some of the beef shigureni ($12.). It’s different and unique. It’s made of marinated beef topped with pepper threads. The beef is Japanese flavored in a way I never tasted before. It makes me think about a Japanese steak sandwich. The rest of the bowl is rice, cabbage and a ramen egg (like a hard boiled egg). (This plate differed slightly from menu description)

Another unusual plate is the Nanaya Elote ($5.). It’s an ear of corn that is covered with SPICY Japanese mayo and yuzu cheese. It was really SPICY HOT with flavors that were new and different to me.

My favorite plate was the Salmon Yuanyaki ($13.). The salmon was seasoned nicely. It came with shredded cabbage and Japanese potato salad. I don’t know if this is how they would serve it next time because the menu description did differ. We also had a container of rice that we didn’t use.

Nanaya Japanese Kitchen was a very nice take out that was unique and different.

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