Shinen Korean and Yakinikku

Shinen is a cozy little family run place tucked in one of the back lanes of Yokosuka. If you're familiar with it's location it's likely because someone told you about it or because you walk down narrow dark alleys at night for some reason. See the blog map for location.

伸宴　Shinen

伸宴 - The Kanji for Shinen means lengthy/spread out banquet. The two smaller kanji on the building in the photo above are Yakiniku or 焼　肉. Yakiniku is a great kanji compound to learn because you'll see it all over Japan. Yaki means cooking or baking and niku is meat.

Part of a set meal

As you can see the menu (below) has a good selection as long as you like Korean food.  There are some interesting picks on the menu since we can't let any part of the animal go to waste. The Yaki-niku set meals are a good safe choice if you're unsure.  The set meals are on the bottom left of the first menu.

This is a place where it's OK to bring your family/kids as we did see several Japanese families.
Shinen only has about 4 tables with floor seating and two small tables with chairs for normal sitting.  There is no English menu and you'll be taking your chances as far as being around diners who smoke, but we didn't have any problem.

Some side dishes that come with the set meal

Cold noodles

For those of you who like eating organ meat or want to go on an Andrew Zimmern adventure this place might meet your needs. Note they have the coveted cow's third stomach. The 3rd stomach is often used for sashimi as it is in the menu below. I suppose you could cook any of it, but it's listed in the sashimi section. The tripe/ cow's stomach in the section above the sashimi section is the one to order if you want to cook it.