A tour of Okinawa. Food.

     So far our favorite part of Okinawa is by far the variety of food that we are able to eat.  From rice to curry to fondue style meat, it has all been delicious.  Here are a few of the places we have been so far, 6 weeks into our tour here.

     This was at a random ramen place in the area of American Village (which is full of restaurants and stores and even a really tall ferris wheel).  This is homemade ramen noodles that are served cold and you dip them into the soup.  This was a good meal, but definitely not my favorite (not sure if it was because I didn't care for it or because I was still all nauseous from the baby).  Scott had a different type of ramen and LOVED it. 

     These pictures are from a place called Shabu Shabu & BBQ, also located in American Village.  This is by far my favorite meal so far while on the island.  It is similar to fondue, as you cook your meat (pork, chicken, and beef) in a pot of boiling liquid.  We had a soy sauce broth.  It is also served with vegetables and sticky rice.  It was delicious.  Even Maggie devoured this meal.  

     This is from Taco Rice Cafe.  It was delicious & serves almost exactly what it sounds like.  The first picture is fried camembert cheese, which Scott thoroughly enjoyed.  The smiley faces in the second picture are fried potatoes with Maggie's kids size.  I had fried potatoes in my taco rice.  Scott had bacon.  We also really want to go back to this restaurant, because it was delicious, cheap, and filling.  

     These pictures are from our anniversary meal at Sam's by the Sea.  It has been a much recommended restaurant, but I actually was not THAT pleased with it.  Maybe it was just what I ordered.  The first picture is of a curry like soup.  It was delicious but a little on the spicy side.  I ate so little of it because of this, the waitresses wouldn't even take my bowl from me.  The next picture is the salad which was given after the soup.  It was delicious.  I had italian dressing & Scott had bleu cheese.  Both of us devoured the salads, mostly because of the house made dressings.  The third picture was Scott's meal.  King crab legs and filet mignon.  He devoured both.  The last picture is my meal, filet & tahitian lobster.  The lobster had a cream sauce and was baked.  It was very fishy & to me, uneatable.  The steak of course was delicious.  

     We have also been to Coco's Curry House.  The curry is delicious.  And addictive apparently because I want it ALL THE TIME.  The McDonalds here is less greasy but did not agree with my stomach, so I have only eaten it once.  We also went to a bakery up north on the island that was DELICIOUS!!!!  I just don't have any pictures of the food.  We had great cakes and a sourdough bacon wrap thing that was to die for.  Too bad I can't go back there for a while.  But I guess we know where we will be taking the new baby.