#rafute

[shoku-and-awe]

Half-size souki soba with rafute at an Okinawan place I've always wanted to try! I'd have gone earlier if I’d known they offered half-size portions. The noodles were doughy and delicious, and the rafute fatty pork was unbelievable. Overall it was a bit heavy—as soon as I saw the size of the pork, I ordered a salad to soak it up. No regrets at all though. If you think you don't like fatty pork, this might change your mind.

[dekitateyo]

When I wrote about buta kakuni, I mentioned the Okinawan version that is called rafute: we ordered this dish at Okinawa Shokudo - Sora to Umi to Taiyo, very close to the Motosumiyoshi train station. Delicious meat and very yummy ajitsuke tamago!

[katsuyukimoray]

Katsuyuki Moray eats some scrumptious Okinawan food in Tokyo. He’s still never been to Okinawa.

[shoku-and-awe]

Giant Okinawan lunch! Highlights are souki soba (which you’ll notice are not buckwheat) and rafute-don, fatty pork over rice. Reeeally delicious meat. Comes with benishoga (pickled ginger) and spicy Chinese mustard.

From right to left, the little sides are pig’s ear (not my favorite), umi budou (literally ‘sea grapes’—a type of sea vegetable that bursts in your mouth like little green ikura), and a pickled... something from the allium family. Astringent and nice.

[kjs-life]

#Rafute Ginza #Washita shop main store #Okinawa #antenna shop #sandwich #baguette #ラフテー 銀座 #わしたショップ 本店 #沖縄 #アンテナショップ#サンドイッチ #バゲット (Yokohama) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjKzt-VLUMi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[zubosi9000]

ここ数日体調不良の為晩飯作りをサボっていましたが、今日から再開。 豚バラブロックが安かったので大量に買い込み、全部ラフテーにしました。 圧力鍋の威力で柔らかくは出来たものの、油抜きの時間が足りず油っこい上、生姜を入れ忘れるボーンヘッド…。 さらに出来心でご飯をタイ米にしてみたが、なんか微妙。 あと夏野菜のマリネを作ってみたが、これまたラフテー丼との相性が微妙。 とはいえ、頑張って作ったのでそれなりに満足であります。 #rafute #kakuni #porkbelly #porkbellycubes #Marinating #marinatedvegetable #japanesefood #okinawanfood

[gyozahappyhour]

味噌ラフテ！ at HIDEchan w/ buds. C: #okinawanfood #okinawa #misorafute #rafute #hawaii #onokinegrindz

[snacksemiotics]

New York City’s Japan Society is currently hosting a two-month series on Okinawa, the country’s southernmost prefecture, home to a culture that skews far from the rigid intensity of the rest of the archipelago. Held on Tuesday the 3rd, the ‘Explore Okinawa’ event seemed like the most general of these, a broad primer on the island’s culture, history and cuisine. Okinawa is actually the largest island in theRyukyu chain, which existed as an independent kingdom / Chinese affiliate state until being brought under Japanese control in the 17th century, persisting as largely autonomous entity for centuries afterward. Absorbing influences from all over the Western Pacific, the island culture has produced distinctive exports like bingata, a painstaking, multi-step textile form, and karate, Japan’s best-known martial art. 

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