Yuba is basically a very thin film that forms on the top of soy milk in the process of making tofu. It’s very delicate and if you like tofu, you may enjoy yuba as well!

In the morning when we were walking up to the Toshogu Shrine area, our friend had been checking out the menus of all the yuba restaurants along the street. He wanted to take us to a yuba restaurant and was looking for the best bargain and most delicious yuba menu.

These were the kinds of signs that we saw in windows up and down the street in Nikko. There were tons of restaurants specializing in yuba set meals. From reading those signs we learned that it was because there were many vegetarian Buddhist priests in Nikko at one time, so yuba became a local food of the area. Being that we both try to eat vegetarian whenever possible, it was great to find a town with so many vegetarian restaurants!

We decided on a place called Sun Field that had a 1600 yen yuba lunch set.

Some of the items in the lunch set included yuba cooked in shoyu and ginger, deep fried yuba with miso, shoyu yuba soup, sesame tofu, deep fried yuba in shoyu sugar sauce, and coffee jelly with yuba.

We all really enjoyed this yuba lunch and would definitely recommend Sun Field restaurant to others!

More info on Sun Field restaurant from Google (photos and Japanese info).