Dinner and Breakfast Buffets at Okinawa Prince Hotel Ocean View Ginowan

It's Yoko, the hotel-living gourmet hunter, @foodie_yoko! I live in hotels and eat out 365 days a year.

This was Okinawa Prince Hotel Ocean View Ginowan, which I visited at the end of Golden Week.

My plan included dinner and breakfast, so I really enjoyed the buffets!

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Dinner Buffet at Okinawa Prince Hotel Ocean View Ginowan

The restaurant that serves the buffet is All Day Dining Jinon, on the first floor of Okinawa Prince Hotel Ocean View Ginowan.

"Jinon" is apparently the Okinawan dialect word for Ginowan City, and the restaurant serves Okinawan fusion cuisine using ingredients from Okinawa Prefecture!

The dining room was bright and spacious.

Let's start with drinks. Besides drinks, the buffet is roughly divided into four blocks: a salad corner, a hot meal corner, and a dessert corner.

The juices were guava juice, orange juice, a tropical-blend vinegar drink, and sanpin-cha (Okinawan jasmine tea)! I love vinegar drinks, so I gulped them down, lol

Hot drinks were coffee drinks including café latte, plus cocoa and matcha latte. The machine can also dispense just milk or hot water, the same as the one in the club lounge.

The salad had a rich variety and color of vegetables and was well balanced! I was happy to see cherry tomatoes.

There was quite a variety of cold dishes. Boiled shrimp with tropical tuna sauce, gurukun (Okinawa's state fish) escabeche with caponata, beni-imo (purple sweet potato) potato salad, octopus and mizuna salad in a gochujang-style dressing, and something like deep-fried marinated eggplant. On the right are a mini taco rice and a mini umi-budon (sea grapes bowl).

Now the hot meals. The first thing I had was from the live cooking corner: "seared tuna on rock salt with a light soy sauce mousse."

It was a slightly modern dish using freshly seared tuna. There's also freshly fried tempura, though it's not in the photo. On the right is seared rafute (Okinawan braised pork belly) with a fluffy egg sauce with mustard flavor. This one was a bit rich.

On the left are "small shrimp Newburg-style baked in pastry" and "beef stew with the aroma of Okinawan miso."
The beef stew comes in a Staub (a premium French cast-iron pot), which looks stylish.

On the right is roast beef, carved to order!
In the back is a seafood brochette. It's grilled with the ingredients just as they are, and you eat it with vegetables.

Desserts were fruit and cakes. The fruit included strawberries, oranges, grapefruit, grapes, and dragon fruit.
Macarons at a hotel buffet are unusual, aren't they? I felt pretty luxurious eating them!

So here's the Japanese-style food I had for dinner. The seared tuna was plated in a modern way, and you can tell they put in effort! The tempura was freshly fried, and amazingly came with blue salt!

Next, the Western-style things I ate. Mainly roast beef and seafood brochette, plus fried items and some Chinese-style dishes. I felt like there were lots of meat dishes, so meat lovers might be quite satisfied. Personally, I liked the gurukun escabeche.

On the left are curry and a Chinese-style stir-fry. There was bread too, though I have no photo!
I don't eat many carbs, so I had extra dessert, lol.

I think the dessert buffet had everything you see in the photos.
The macarons were mango and pistachio. There were caramel banana cake, yogurt mousse, beni-imo Mont Blanc, and more, a well-balanced mix of rich and light, with a lineup that had an Okinawan feel.

Mango ice cream with coconut sauce on top was seriously delicious!

Breakfast Buffet at Okinawa Prince Hotel Ocean View Ginowan

I ate my fill at the breakfast buffet too!

The salad was the same as the dinner buffet. On the right is the roast ham cutting.
Not that it matters, but "cutting" just means they're cutting it, right? Does that count as a dish name, lol

On the left are Japanese appetizers: castella-style kamaboko (fish cake), mozuku seaweed in vinegar, and pickles. There was also something like stir-fried kombu.

On the right, in the back, is the live-cooking omelet corner (you can add Spam or aosa seaweed).
In front are the hot dishes: Dauphinoise potatoes with agu pork meat, and French toast.

I was surprised to find soy meatballs in a Chinese-style sauce.
Vegans and vegetarians are increasing lately, so it shows they've thought about options for those guests too.

The bread included chocolate Danish and nut bread, plus rolls in many varieties: brown sugar, spinach, whole wheat, and more.

And smoothies, which are great in the morning.
There were a shikuwasa (Okinawan citrus) smoothie and a green smoothie.
I feel like hotels big enough to buy ingredients in volume almost always have smoothies at breakfast.

Living in hotels, I try to eat vegetables and fruit deliberately, and I'm happy since blended produce is said to be easier for the body to absorb.

On the right are desserts and cakes. There were some made with vegetables, which was fun! My favorite was the spinach and kabocha pound cake. There was also the Okinawa blue-striped jelly (yogurt flavor) that I had in the club lounge. And after the macarons at night, there were canelés in the morning, which was fantastic!

Morning drinks were flavored water, sanpin-cha, a tropical-mix vinegar drink, acai blend juice, and orange juice. I think they swapped in lighter drinks than at night!

On the right is what I took in my first round at breakfast, lol
I had classic Okinawan dishes like carrot shirishiri (carrot stir-fried with egg), jimami tofu (peanut tofu), and mozuku in vinegar, and the pound cake and something like a carrot pudding were delicious too!

Here's the Western-style food from my second round at breakfast.
The omelet, a breakfast buffet staple, I had made with Spam.
At a Prince Hotel, I really want an omelet to be there.
I also liked that there were hash browns, which I personally love.

I also had beni-imo-flavored hotcakes, fresh off the griddle!

Who Okinawa Prince Hotel Ocean View Ginowan Is Good For

The breakfast and dinner buffets at Okinawa Prince Hotel Ocean View Ginowan are well balanced between Japanese and Western food, with a wide range of dishes using Okinawan ingredients and live cooking with a slightly modern twist. There are also somewhat rich desserts like macarons and canelés, so I can recommend this restaurant to just about anyone. It has a lot of seats, so it's especially good for families. If you're curious, definitely go eat there!