Motsunabe is the Hakata offal hotpot, simmered with garlic chives and cabbage in a miso or soy-sauce broth, finished with champon noodles; in Japan we have verified places to eat it in Fukuoka. Start with where to eat Motsunabe in Fukuoka.
Motsunabe · Fukuoka
Motsunabe is the Hakata offal hotpot, simmered with garlic chives and cabbage in a miso or soy-sauce broth, finished with champon noodles. Yamanaka codified the miso style in 1984.
Motsunabe came from Fukuoka's postwar Korean community, who brought the practice of cooking beef offal in a hotpot format. The dish stayed local until Yamanaka opened in Ohashi in 1984 and codified the miso-based version with garlic chives and cabbage; Rakutenchi followed with the soy-sauce style. Through the 1990s motsunabe boomed nationally as a Hakata regional specialty. The champon-noodle finish is a Yamanaka invention. The dish runs from October through March in most rooms; some carry it all year.
Where to eat in Fukuoka:
- Hakata Motsunabe Yamanaka Akasaka
- Motsunabe Rakutenchi Tenjin So-Honten
- Hakata Motsunabe Yamanaka Hakata
- Hakata Motsunabe Yamanaka Ohashi Honten
Where to eat Motsunabe in Fukuoka: the editor picks