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Japanese soba promo a hit for Aqua Resort
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Posted on Apr 10 2008
Aqua Resort Club’s Japanese soba action station during its Champagne Sunday Brunch was a big success, according to the Achugao hotel’s food and beverage sales manager Yoshimi Yanagisawa.
“That was such a huge hit, my God! Our average covers for Sunday brunch during the soba promotion was over 100 covers,” she in a recent interview with the Saipan Tribune.
Aside from the increase in customers, Yanagisawa said the action station also brought awareness about how authentic teuchi soba really tastes like and how the noodles are made in her native Japan.
She added that the promotion was so successful that it was not unusual to see second and third time diners during the four Sundays in March when Aqua Resort had the action station.
“We received a lot of great comments from expatriate Japanese and their friends and even from our local diners,” said the Aqua Resort executive.
She said if thing work out, Aqua Resort may bring back the Japanese soba action station in May or June 2008.
Japanese noodle restaurant Okada made the authentic teuchi soba from scratch right in front of guests during the promotion last month.
Okada operations manager Shunsuke Katagiri was joined at the action station by the restaurant’s president, Mayumi Suzuki, while the company’s owner and namesake, Toshimitsu Okada, supervised the entire operation.
Okada makes its Japanese soba from scratch with fresh and authentic ingredients imported from Japan. The making of handmade buckwheat noodles also takes at least an hour with noodle-makers using traditional methods and equipment.
Okada, in an earlier interview, said he wants to open one of his restaurants on Saipan in the near future.
Okada, according to Yanagisawa, has been existence in Japan for the past 40 years. She said it is about time a Japanese soba restaurant opens on the island.
