Shells - Toguchi Beach

Sometimes after lunch and it's nice out, I take a walk on the beach outside my office. Here are some interesting shells that I have picked up. I am not a collector, but I just pick up interesting looking shells.

Oden Chibana Again!

Chibana-san's wife again had prepared oden and had him bring me a bowl which I enjoyed yesterday for lunch. Nothing could have been finer for lunch when it was pouring rain and windy outside from the fringes of Tropical Storm Halong!

From bottom left, there was daikon, konnyaku, chikuwa, konbu knot, pork shank, tofu, egg, shirataki bundles, and potato (hidden under). As usual it was oishii!

Sun Toguchi

I took a retiring Foreman of mine to lunch today along with some workers of his Branch plus other Branch Foremen. Went to this place very close to our office - Sun Toguchi, located on Toguchi Beach in Yomitan. In fact the beach continues right past my office window a way down! The place is a city-owned restaurant (probably a concession) on the beach. Here's what the folks had:

Me being the Miso Shiru (みそ汁) freak I am, had it here - ¥500. Just lots of veggies in miso soup with a few pieces of pork and luncheon meat with an egg on top. Love miso shiru! (2 orders)

Okinawan Soba (沖縄そば) - ¥450, soba with pork slices, kamaboko, negi and beni shoga. (3 orders)



Soki Soba (ソーキそば) - ¥600, soba with soki nitsuke ribs, kamaboko, negi and beni shoga. (1 order)

Beef Oyster Sauce (牛肉カキ油炒め) - ¥750, beef slices in an oyster sauce gravy with tofu. Underneath are blanched cabbage greens, there's some peeking out to the right. I've had this dish before - it's ono! (3 orders).

Inexpensive lunch for all - ¥5,200



A formation right outside the restaurant.



And another little one further down.

"poor" man's meal + some extras

For many Chinese and Southeast Asian folks in times past and probably still to this day, most if not all of their meals was just rice and salted fish (hum nyee). Cheap, easily available, maybe of their own making, but so tasty. That's why it's called the poor man's food.

Not that it's inexpensive for me considering what I go through to get the ingredients, but relatively still cheap, and I enjoy it a lot. Couple bowls of rice, piece of hum nyee, a "100 year" old egg (peidan), and some takuan is filling and is certainly a comfort food to me.

Below is the hum nyee after steaming while the rice was cooking. Set up on a trivet so the rice can cook without being restricted. I do the same for lup cheong to heat up while steaming rice. By the way, I only ate half of the piece of hum nyee. A bit of it with rice really is satisfying!

steamed pork hash w/ lup cheong

Felt a little energetic plus had to use some ground pork I bought this weekend.

So made a plain usual dish. Steamed pork hash w/ lup cheong. The pork hash just has besides the ground pork - sliced green onions, chopped chung choi, water chestnuts & soaked dried shiitakes. No special stuffs like hotaru-ika, dried ika, salted egg or hum nyee. Seasonings of oyster sauce, shoyu, sesame oil & some constarch. Then put sliced lup cheong on top and steamed 30 minutes.

unagi & goya chanpuru don

I'm still here! Been very busy at work, and at home I've been just eating regular, simple stuff of mine that I usually cook and posted about before. Don't want to bore you.

Shopping today at San A and bought a bento for lunch - unagi & goya chanpuru don. Cost was ¥420, About $4 at the crazy yen rate we're going through right now. Very oishii!