The Seas, The Sun & The Air - The Okinawa Way Feb 2017 (VII)

After checking out from Hamahiga Island, we took some detours (again and as usual) to see any interesting things along the way. We visited a small islet and reminded dear dear to take note of any "hero snakes" hiding, a museum cum shop along the bridge and a breakwater to see if we could see Nemo again. We parked at a big empty space and decided to capture our Okinawan car with the nice backdrop of clouds and trees. 

 

We were heading to outlet mall and would be staying in Itoman City. Quite excited as we didn't really visit any outlet mall in Europe excluding the JPO in Malaysia.  On the way, we chanced upon a port and my instinct told me that there might be fresh seafood for lunch. We loved seafood and fresh sushi in Japan after our past "market" experience and decided to try our luck. Wow, many road users actually stopped by the "port" for replenishment. We ordered lobster sea urchin and my sushi meal.  Later then we realised you could actually select a fish of your choice and asked the kitchen to cook for you.  Where is my Okinawan Fish?  Though I could not recognise any Okinawan Fish and hence didn't get the chance to eat it again.


The sushi set made me miss my Hokkaido market meal. The lobster was big and juicy too. Overall, "Fresh" and fun eating in local canteen! I didn't realise that I have actually developed the "curiosity by the road" kind of habit - to explore any interesting things along the road trip.  It all started from Okinawa? 

An interesting outlet mall "Ashibinaa" which is quite big and weather was cold.  Only two of us in slippers and later we realised it was quite "impolite" to go around in slippers.  We focused on our likings and bought some clothes and my black Le Cresuset cup.  "Black" stuff should be quite rare and same as Freitag "black" stuff.   I was still scrutinising it and the friendly shop assistant pointed me to a notice about the condition of the goods sold at the shop. The stuff was still of good quality but might have some minor flaw only.  The cup is in use since then =)  and I dun see it elsewhere so far in the Le C shops we visited.  Got myself also a "Beam" shirt which was supposed to be a local brand. We ate "Blue Seal" - an Okinawan Ice Cream and it reminded us of the US-influence.  

Besides white cherries, we saw white strawberries in the grocery shop at the mall and decided to try and we bought it back to Hotel.  A small episode about our Southern Beach Hotel - it has either the sea view or the port view and having seen many sea views, we decided to go for port view and not to pay extra for upgrade.  Haha, still a comfortable hotel to relax and stay.