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Okinawa’s Healthy Ingredients

  • Rafute: soft-simmered pork belly. It is simmered in a mix of bonito stock, sugar and Awamori, the local Okinawan alcohol, with soy sauce added while simmering.

  • Goya champuru: stir-fried bitter melon. The ingredients are boiled pork belly, goya, carrot, onion and egg.

  • Asa jiru: sea lettuce soup. You need bonito stock, asa seaweed and Okinawan tofu for this dish.

  • Kufa jushi: Okinawan rice cooked with meat and vegetables, containing small pieces of boiled pork belly, shiitake mushrooms and carrots.

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