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Today we ate Yakiniku in Okinawa (piefed.jeena.net)

submitted 1 week ago by jeena@piefed.jeena.net to c/foodporn@lemmy.world

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The couple in front of us has been told to come back at 7pm. But - I guess - because my wife speaks Japanese they let us in and just told us that we only have 1.5 hours at the table because it's reserved after that.

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Everything pork belly is good, of course (although nothing beats my inlaws' homemade pork belly). Okinawa cuisine is inspired largely by Chinese cuisine, so that sets it apart from the main island-- pork being the big thing. There's also US military influence so you get some interesting hybrids like Taco Rice, or Spam and Bittermelon (Okinawa has it's own type that's different than the Chinese kind).

Sweets, hard to say. Purple yam is their specialty crop but it's more novel then anything. I'm more partial to the milk flavor, which the small town of Nanjo is known for (although I wouldn't go just for that). I have found very rich brown sugar and fresh pineapple to be very good, too, I think grown locally.

Hope that helps, as always quality varies place to place and usually the best places are off the usual tourist areas.

Edit: oh I also just remembered a place that has a deep fryer in the middle of the table and it's like Korean BBQ but with a deep fryer. Now that was a unique experience, lol.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had no idea their food is inspired by Chinese food before I arrived here. That was quite a surprise. I will look for interesting pork places then thanks a lot!