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Fried Okinawa noodles with ketchup [Cooking Recipe]
This noodle dish is easy and quick to cook, using ketchup with fried noodles to create a good old Okinawan flavor. This is straightforward h...Read More
Okinawan Food Tasting Event [Cooking Recipe LIFE]
Tomigusuku city Chamber of Commerce offers food tasting event at XROSS*R in American Village Mihama, Chatan. They are doing a survey to find...Read More
Winter Melon Miso Soup (Serving Size 4) [Cooking Recipe]
Ingredients Half of a Winter Melon 200g pork hash Welsh Onions (as many as you like) 1 litter soup stock 1 tbs miso How to cook 1. Shave off...Read More
2015.01.23
Shimadofu with kimchi salad [Cooking Recipe]
Have you seen shimadofu at local supermarkets? If you shop locally I bet you have. Many of my cooking class students say they have seen it but have no clue how to use it. So, here ...
2015.01.16
Umukuji Tempura – Purple Sweet Potato Tempura [Cooking Recipe]
This is one of the ways locals eat purple sweet potato for a snack. My local area, Yomitan village, is famous for producing purple sweet potatoes that don’t just have a beautiful c...
2015.01.12
Nanakusa-gayu – Seven Herb Porridge [Cooking Recipe]
The Festival of Seven Herbs is a Japanese custom of eating seven-herb rice porridge (nanakusa-gayu) in January to bring longevity and health, and is also intended to ward off evil....
2014.12.26
Fu Chanpuru [Cooking Recipe]
Fu chanpuru is basically fried mix vegetables, but ingredients such as goya and fu make these dishes unique to Okinawa. There are many ways to cook chanpuru and you can simply use ...
2014.12.17
Chicken Karaage – Japanese style deep fried chicken [Cooking Recipe]
Karaage is a really popular dish for everybody from young kids to adults in Japan. This was my favourite dish when I was small and I loved to find karaage in my school lunch box. I...
2014.12.11
Jushi – steamed rice with mixed vegetables [Cooking Recipe]
Jushi is one of the most popular Okinawan dishes. There is a similar dish in mainland Japan, but using pork belly among the ingredients makes this steamed rice meal quite unique to...
2014.12.03
Japanese style curry [Cooking Recipe]
Do you like Japanese style curry? I noticed a lot of people like Japanese style or CoCo curry and want to know how to cook it at home. So here is a Japanese curry recipe. You can ...
2014.12.02
Sweet and tender simmered pork [Cooking Recipe]
You might have noticed Okinawans love pork. Pork is in Okinawan noodles, fried rice and even in vegetables – it’s everywhere! This week, I introduce one of my favourite pork ...
2014.12.02
Goya salad [Cooking Recipe]
Goya, or ‘bitter melon’, is a common and traditional local vegetable. You might have seen it at your local farmers’ market and wondered how to cook it. Well, there is more use for ...
2014.12.01
Cooking with Nao [Cooking Recipe]
Let’s cook simple and tasty Okinawan and Japanese dishes together! From this week we are re-introducing our popular weekly collection of recipes. This time we have enlisted the hel...
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