Meat & BBQ Tips for Tourists in Okinawa

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Okinawa is better suited to a selected area of the vacation style fixed point to play 3-4 days, do not be greedy for more and more, a change of mind will find it is really too much fun. I spent 3-4 days around Naha, in the south, and in the north, with bits and pieces of Yomitan and other things in between, so it seemed like I swept through everything I could, but I actually didn't get enough.

I love to visit supermarkets wherever I go, and I would have just bought snacks and shortcuts, but this time, when I went to Yomiuri HOSHINOYA, I found out that the room was stocked with a Panasonic cooking plate? It was meant for room-in dining.

But look at the menu does not seem to have anything, the partners happen to have a car, we proposed that we go to explore the supermarket, the results will be out of control, from hot pot to barbecue, opened the local DIY eating meat road.

First of all, let's look at the price, Okinawa's famous Agu pig, the cheapest single set meal in the general restaurant to 3-4k yen, but in the supermarket it's price is this.

Homemade shabu-shabu in fish bone broth, the pot is bought from Daiso now. Beef, local Ishigaki and Kurobuta cattle are considered good breeds, and are priced as such at the butcher store, with discounts.

Of course the ones served at the barbecue restaurants look more pleasing to the eye and aren't too expensive at the current exchange rate.

But for something different check out this article that shows you how to buy your own meat and play BBQ in Okinawa.

🤗 Where can I usually BBQ?

(1) Ready-made grill at the beach

Convenience ☆☆☆☆☆

Value for money☆☆☆

Experience ☆☆☆☆

Several famous seashores such as ARAHA or SUNSET have specialized rental sites.

They will provide all the equipment and spares, and when you run out, you do not have to clean it, just throw it there, but accordingly you will have to pay for the venue with a package of ingredients included. The cheapest you'll receive is 2000-3000 a person.

But drinks and additional ingredients can bring their own, want to eat what to eat, that is not more than the store free it.

And the beach watching the sunset while eating fried noodles ha beer, is also a good memory, right?

(2) B&B with its own yard barbecue

Convenience ☆☆☆☆

Value for money ☆☆☆☆

Experience ☆☆☆☆☆

Okinawa on the airb a lot of room types are detached villas, find a grill has a grill directly in the yard grill. It's just that there's no scenery to see.

Convenient is convenient, need something directly in the kitchen, pots and pans are available, the excitement of stir-frying a dish or cooking hot pot can be.

However, you need to pay attention to the landlord's cleaning requirements in the terms and conditions of the accommodation, where we were staying, the barbecue utensils can not be cleaned, but the dishes and cutlery need to be washed by yourself.

The kitchen of this northern B&B is separate from the bedroom, and it's not too well stocked with all kinds of utensils.

(3) Find a beach and cook on your own stove.

Convenience ☆

Value for money ☆☆☆☆

Experience ☆☆☆☆☆

The most wilderness survival version, this time I was going to try, even the beach was found, but in the end, I couldn't get together the time to play, so I had to wait for the next time to go back.

📎 What about the stove?

Roast store rental

Quite a lot of fine meat stores have rented stoves, either to buy a certain amount of meat, or to pay a little extra, are not expensive. But this kind of may need to help them clean equipment, ask in advance.

Buy one

Homecenter's charcoal stoves + charcoal can be done for 2000+.

But how to dispose of it after use is a problem, and the hostel we stayed at the time usually has a package for renting a barbecue grill, so it was just the right thing to help us deal with it. Used charcoal usually can not be thrown away in the household garbage, so ask the venue how to dispose of it before you use it.

In addition, the beach must also need to look online to see if it is allowed to barbecue ah, you think no one to manage the place, in fact, are silently managed, including seawater around the installation of jellyfish nets, etc., do not comply with the rules, then in case of what happened is also a problem.

We searched in the north and found a safe and protected beach near the B&B, so you still need to pay more attention if you have small children.

Also remember to take away your trash when you finish.

🤗 Where to buy meat?

Supermarkets and butcher stores.

We each search the neighborhood to go on it, remember to look ahead of time in the Google image of the store is not big & meat high grade, if it is a neighborhood store that only serves the surrounding residents, there may be little or even no local cattle, after all, the local cattle is more expensive, is not a daily meal.

Here are two stores we've been to

If you're in the south, the following yonabaru is the store with the best and highest quality meat I've seen in Okinawa this time, and I still miss it after I left the south.

The owner and the farmers worked together to research a new breed of pig called pineapple pig, grew up eating pineapple since childhood, their home is also able to borrow the barbecue equipment, just to clean and return to them, we were staying in the youth hostel inconvenient, just buy the meat.

If you are in the north, you may only be able to buy the following this one, the other is a small store nothing advanced meat. This home also operates ins can see the daily meat information, we went to the day exactly 29th there is a discount.

🤗 Fish in Okinawa

Said a lot of meat, but generally in Japan will always eat some fish, Okinawa's fish how it?

In fact, the Japanese have admitted that Okinawan fish is not as good as the island, after all, it is tropical, although colorful and good-looking, but eat and thin, fresh taste is not enough.

But if you want to eat, I think you can try some of the three kinds of fish.

Crispy Fish

You can see it in supermarkets, the skin is thicker and crunchier. It's a bit special.

Tuna

Okinawa is the birthplace of tuna, but as I said earlier, it's generally lean, so if you like it, try it.

The price of tuna that is dismantled on the same day at the fish market is about this price.

It's quite rare to see this species, so be sure to buy it when you come across it!

It's a rare local variety with a fatty texture, and we've only gotten it once.

The name is Sugi (sugi) came back to check it's junco fish, not too familiar eh.

You can buy some sashimi and eat it as a BBQ appetizer.

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Well, have a good time.