The hubs and I decided to try a random restaurant just off the main shopping strip (Kokusai Street) of Naha city after walking up and down and peering at all the menus the other restaurants displayed. I don't know what was so different about this particular restaurant, maybe it was the plastic dishes that was being displayed on the window.
Okinawan cooking is a little different from the rest of Japan, so everyone says. Food listed on the local menu include a square cut of braised pork (Rafute), complete with skin and fat, stir fried bitter gourd with tofu, various ways of cooking belly pork, 'popping' seaweed, ramen and stir fried somen noodles. Anyways, this restaurant had it all so we tried a little of everything.
The below is Rafute. Never mind about the meat, but the fat and skin melts so easily in your mouth. Hours of cooking will do that to the meat. Gravy/seasoning was similar to the nyonya way of cooking this particular dish, herby but there wasn't any taste of vinegar.
Okinawa Rafute
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