Day 14 Resting with Pork & Pizza
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Loading ...After two days of battering in the ocean, I took a day off to chill (…and of course, eat some more). The weather wasn’t great. My friends had a day off too, so we went to eat lunch.
Above is Honejiru. Hone means bones. It’s pork bone soup. Quite literally, it has slow cooked pork bones with little meat on them with a big heap of grated ginger on top. Not much meat? No problem! This was SO extremely good! I was tired and a bit cold, but this soup really warmed me up with such great flavor of pork and with the heat of ginger.
I didn’t tell you this in the previous post, but Hana-chan and I had a car accident the day before. It was raining, and the van slipped and made a 180 degree turn to face the way we came. Kind people helped us move the car to the side of the road. We were all OK, but unfortunately Hana-chan’s old van had to be scrapped after that. 
On this day off, we decided to take it easy with a big pizza and beer, which turned out to be very good. Okinawa has quite a few tacos, burgers and pizza places like America because of the military bases.
Yuki didn’t take it easy though even on his day off. He made another Okinawa’s staple dish called, tebichi. It’s pork feet. Te means hands, so actually this dish should be translated as pork hands. Yuki cooked them very slowly in Awamori (very strong Okinawan sake) for a few hours and flavored it with soy sauce, mirin, sugar, and salt. Oh my goodness, they were so tender and fall-off-the-bones delicious. This man knows what he is doing.
This is the delicious final outcome of tebichi. It has lots of collagen, and that means my sun-burned skin will be plump and smooth! 
Yuki added some tofu too. It was so flavorful, absorbing all the goodness from the pork.
Even a time with friends to talk about crazy things like the car accident and the car no longer recoverable was so much more fun over such great food.
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