Nuka

Nestled in a small town on Maui’s North Shore, is our intimate, 50-seat Izakaya restaurant and sushi bar. We offer a range of contemporary Japanese fare, handrolled sushi, and a full service bar and cocktail menu. We hope you’ll dine with us soon. Nuka is created in the process of turning brown rice into white, also known as polishing or milling. The bran is then mixed with water, salt, kelp, and turned into a pickling bed. Any vegetable can be buried in the nuka for one day to many months. The final product is nukazuke, a salty, tangy, sour pickle loaded with beneficial probiotics. At NUKA we proudly mill our own rice. The polishing process partially removes the brown rice bran, leaving a nutritious ‘embryo’ rice with the taste, texture, and digestibility of white rice. We then use the nuka byproduct of the milling process to create our own nukazuke. We fry exclusively with rice bran oil, which is known for its high smoke point and mild flavor.