Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Okinawa and Taipei - Day 5: Naha Day 2 - Kokusai (Mashiki Market) and Shuri Castle

With the wedding all behind us, now is the time for tourist me and date time :).  We first went to the Kokusai market and started picking things to eat.

We had the Conch Sashimi (Tsubugai), the 'real' Irubaja, grilled shrimp and also the Sea Snake Ramen.  That was lunch :).



Then we headed towards Shuri Castle by train.  We had tea time there too!

For dinner, we went to shabu shabu.  Pork is pretty famous in Okinawa, so we thought we try it out.

They did cash only so we couldn't order much since we didn't have too much cash on hand.  We dug deep and was able to afford beer though by combining our coins :).  This meal was pretty $$$ - the going rate was about $5 a slice of pork.  I guess high class pork is just lost on me.

After that, since I was still pretty hungry, we walked around and found an izakaya.  Upon seeing they take credit card, we went in and sat down.  Even though we were in the more tourist portion of Naha, it turned out we had found a local izakaya, as the menu was all Japanese and the waiters only spoke Japanese.  The menu had no pictures this time. So we ended up getting the server to read out what the things were (especially the fishes - and we knew what they were!).. Lol.  At one point, the guy even pulled out their iPhone to show us what the menu item was by pulling up a dictionary.

So we ended up ordering a bunch of stuff, including a $3 sirloin steak on a sizzling plate :D.  Yuuuummmm.

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