Innie or Outie

It comes as no surprise that someone came up with a more flavorful version of the traditional senbei rice cracker. Various versions of red chilli pepper sauces can be found throughout the island and probably in mainland Japan as well.

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This is a “viking” (choose-you-own-goodies) style take out bento meal with rice, seaweed, fu, konyaku, mushrooms, potato croquette, string beans. tuna, chicken, greens, and daikon.

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This version of local take-out meals eaten by hubby had all types of goodies such as mackerel, carrot, potato, ebi tempura, konyaku-seaweed mix, bean-seaweed mix, greens-sesame seed mix, rice with black sesame seeds, and daikon.

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This take-out version of one of the local oba-style culinary favorites on island consisted of pork cutlet, chunky potato and carrot, peas, and onion in a curried sauce with sweet pickled radish.

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This version of local take-out bento meals had rice with shiso flakes, deep-fried chicken cutlet with chunky egg salad style tartar sauce on a bed of iceberg lettuce, julienned gobo-carrot-sesame seed mix, and greens with sesame seeds.

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Having been a bit busy lately, we decided to grab some fast food when we developed a serious case of the midnight munchies. This particular group of take-out foods included sushi, chicken karage, and imitation crab, julienned vegetables, and shrimp tempuras on rice.

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This delish dish was found at a new roadside cafe (Bravo) off of Hwy 330 in Urasoe. The casual and relaxing semi-outdoor cafe just opened three months ago. This chunky, mildly-spiced with a slight fruity flavor curry contained potato, carrot, onion, and beef chunks served with a karage-style tonkatsu with rice and a pickled veggie is only one of the selections available. Accompanying the entrée was a good-sized salad of iceberg lettuce, grated cabbage and carrot, sliced cucumber and tomato with a choice of four salad dressings and optional mini-croutons. Completing the very reasonably-priced “lunch set” was a soft drink.

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This version of take out meals, similar to bento#9, consisted of rice with grated bonito sauce and black sesame seeds, potato salad, deep-fried white fish and shrimp with tartar sauce, potato croquette, spaghetti, nori, sausage, daikon, fried pancake roll with sauce, chicken karage, and egg.

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This is one of the delish snacks from a local supermarket…

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This sweet snack from a local department store had fluffy layers of sponge cake seperated with alternating layers of buttery cream frosting…

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