Strawberry-picking is a popular springtime activity, but in the fall, you can try planting strawberries. Every weekend starting Sept. 23 through Oct. 9, you can test your green thumb at Chura Ichigo...
Brimming with many tourist spots like Sefa Utaki, Okinawa World, and beautiful beaches, Nanjo City hardly ceases to amaze Okinawa visitors throughout the year.
One of the life’s unexpected charms is serendipity. Like strolling at night and being delighted by the fragrance of jasmine flowers, long before the corner of your eyes detects the silhouette of the shrub on the sidewalk.
After my adventure, I took a 10-minute drive to Tenku Terrace OoLoo for a relaxing lunch. In Okinawan dialect “OoLoo” means blue, and this café high above the southeastern coast has a great ocean view embodying that meaning.
As a kid, every New Year I would look forward to a sweet jelly called kouhaku kanten. Kanten is a jelly made from boiled tengusa algae and seaweed. It is known for being low-calorie and rich in fiber, so it is often used as a healthy alternative to regular sweets.
Turmeric, or “ukon” in Japanese, is a kind of ginger, known as a spice for Indian curry, and in Japan, it is mostly recognized as a food that can help avoid hangover.
It has been said that food is the soul of a country. This couldn’t be truer for Okinawa. A mix of favorable natural conditions and diverse foreign influences produced unique eating habits and a cooking style that is now known as “Okinawan cuisine”.
