"Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> > And you don't like washoku ?
>
> Leaving aside whether I do or not, remember that I live in Okinawa.

I knew you lived in Ryu Kyu libre. That's why over there "Japanese only"
sounds more like "only foreigners " than "no foreigners" . It has to be a
sort of exotic shop that caters tourists. Like the  "Japanese only" places
in Hawaii, Thailand, South-Korea, etc.

>This is a place where, if you want what mainlanders think of as soba you
>must ask for "nihon soba" -- just asking for soba will get you "Okinawa
>soba," which most closely resembles udon, but usually with a big hunk of
>pork floating on top.

I suspected something like that. So there is a need for shops that prepare
the "Okinawa soba" that tourists have learnt to appreciate in their place
( in Osaka it's with corn, nigauri and turmeric).

> And asking for "tempura" will get you something most closely resembling
fish
> and chips sans the chips, unless you get "satou tempura," in which case
you
> will get something most closely resembling a "donut hole."

Those sorts of fried billard balls ? They exist over there or it's also a
product of our local Okinawa mythology ?

Kuri