I Eat Okinawan Cuisine

Some foods were very unique in the area, especially, the Okinawan noodle soup was the "Special."

These are examples of Okinawan foods which we ate in the Island.

Breakfast and Midnight Noodle Soup

 

Every dish was elaborately wrapped with thin plastic film or capped with a plastic lid.

Hotel lodgers had to wear plastic gloves while taking dishes from food counters back to each table.

It seemed to be against the environmental protection movement.

But the ways of eating food at a hotel were well considered to avoid COVID-19 or at least to reduce risks of infection the disease.

The hotel served Chinese noodle soup to lodgers who wanted it at midnight.

I See My Friend Again For the First Time in 4 Years

I went to a Japanese noodle soup shop and a dumpling shop with my old friend the other day.

I enjoyed the reunion very much.

I worked with him  for several years at my company around 1998; he was a software engineer at that time.

He is living a quite adventurous life.
He got married in his young age, divorced after several years, changed occupations many times, once lived in the US, ran a company and bankrupted it within a few years, worked as an owner of three houses, met a fraud and was robbed of about half a million US dollars, married again at the age of 60 with a single mother with kids, now he is planing to work as a driver.

I Go to a Noodle Soup Shop 'Ogino'

Restaurant 'Ogino' which serves noodle soup and sweets has firmly kept its own old Japanese Showa-era styple.

They show dish samples made of wax in front of the shop and hang a big size menu display on its wall.

All the more, they offer unchanged same old taste of noodle soup for over half a century.

I See My Friend Again For the First Time in 15 Yerars

I went to an Irish Pub, a Japanese style Izakaya-pub, an Italian bar and a Japanese noodle soup shop with my friend yesterday.

I enjoyed the reunion and spent wonderful time with him.

Mr. Sano, used to be my colleague, is living a quite adventurous life.

I worked with him for only two to three years at my company around 1998.

He got married in his young age, divorced after several years, changed occupations many times, once lived in the U.S..

He runs a company, works as an owner of three houses and also works as a software engineer now.

Listening to stories from a guy who is walking a completely different life comparing to mine stimulates my idea.

We Go to a Noodle Soup Restaurant

Kiyono, Rina and I went to my favorite noodle soup restaurant the other day.

The name of the restaurant was 'Kazan' which meant a volcano in literary Japanese.

The soup bowls were made of stone; they brought heated bowls having noodles inside.

Then, they poured soup in the bowls in front of us. The bowls were so hot that the soup inside the bowls boiled like spurting lava from a volcano.

Customers had to hold a sheet of paper to fend off spurting soup.

Tastes were nice and we enjoyed watching the exciting cooking show.