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Ride Okinawa

Food · 食

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Pork, kelp, bitter melon and a rice spirit aged for years in clay pots. Each dish links to the places we list for it.

Salt-grilled slices of Agu pork with crisp golden fat are fanned over shredded cabbage with lemon wedges on a white plate at a restaurant in Nakijin
Thin pink slices of Agu pork for shabu-shabu wait on a white plate in front of a wooden box of mushrooms, carrot and greens under low restaurant light

Agu pork

Ingredient

足ティビチ / てびち

Ashitibichi (pig's trotters)

Dish

紅芋 / 紅いも

Beni-imo (purple sweet potato)

Ingredient

ブルーシール

Blue Seal ice cream

Sweet

Egg-soaked wheat gluten stir-fried with luncheon meat and green onion fills a white plate at Shirasa on Kouri, with sata andagi in a dish behind
Bitter melon, firm island tofu, a slice of luncheon meat and scrambled egg are piled on a white plate under a scatter of bonito flakes at an Ishigaki restaurant
Slices of green bitter melon, browned tofu, onion, carrot and egg are stir-fried together and served on a square white plate
A small whole bitter melon with its knobbly green skin sits in front of a helping of goya champuru with pork, egg and bean sprouts on a green ceramic plate

Champuru

Dish

ちんすこう

Chinsuko

Sweet

Egg-soaked wheat gluten stir-fried with luncheon meat and green onion fills a white plate at Shirasa on Kouri, with sata andagi in a dish behind

Fu champuru

Dish

Bitter melon, firm island tofu, a slice of luncheon meat and scrambled egg are piled on a white plate under a scatter of bonito flakes at an Ishigaki restaurant
Slices of green bitter melon, browned tofu, onion, carrot and egg are stir-fried together and served on a square white plate
A small whole bitter melon with its knobbly green skin sits in front of a helping of goya champuru with pork, egg and bean sprouts on a green ceramic plate

Goya champuru

Dish

イナムドゥチ / いなむ

Inamuruchi

Dish

イラブー汁

Irabu-jiru (sea snake soup)

Dish

Black beef cattle graze on short grass beneath a broad shade tree on Kuroshima under a clear blue sky
Sliced Ishigaki beef steak cooked pink in the middle is laid across a glass plate with a small salad at a steakhouse in Naha
Four pieces of lightly seared Ishigaki beef nigiri sit on a long dark ceramic plate with pickled ginger on a polished wooden counter
Heavily marbled cubes of raw Ishigaki beef for yakiniku sit on a green leaf beside onion, carrot and pepper on a white plate

Ishigaki beef

Ingredient

A smooth dome of peanut tofu sits in a pool of sweet soy sauce in a blue and white floral porcelain bowl against a plain grey background

Jimami tofu

Dish