Sunday, May 24, 2009

Ma Yo Ma Ni A

The title represents the 5 Katakana symbols inside the circle on the front of this snack ring bag. Had I had my handy dandy cheat sheet with me at the time I would have known "for sure" that I was buying Mayonnaise flavored funyon type snacks. I was intrigued just off the picture of the kid on the front.

Turns out Mayo flavored snack chips aren't too bad.... in fact they are almost addictive. Kind of like dill pickle chips or salt and vinegar chips :)

See what the family thought:







Saturday, May 23, 2009

100 Yen find

You already know my favorite store is the 100 Yen store. I love this place because you never know what you will find. The stock is constantly rotating and each 100 yen store has a different "specialty" item. Naval Kadena's 100 yen shop has the best selection of storage containers, the big 100 yen store by the convention center has the best food selection, etc.

While browsing the big yen store for fun foods I ran accross this: I decided that for 100 yen we would try it out. I "read" the directions:
Opened the package:

And mixed it up in my saute pan:



As with american prepackaged foods, mine didn't look ANYTHING like the package said it would. Turns out this was a shrimp flavored pasta and it was very, very shrimpy tasting. Stephanie enjoyed it more than the rest of us did. Someday I am going to have to sit down and finish learning my Japanese phonetics so I can decipher these packages in the store!

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Lucky?

We wanted to try out another new restaurant (Yes, we are trying to eat our way across the island!). This was an All You Can Eat Yakiniku place called King Kong's. We found the building, but the parking lot was full, so we had to find a spot on the street. Not an easy task here where cars outnumber parking spots by at least 2 to 1. We found one pretty quickly and pretty close by.... Lucky


Then upon getting out of the car Chris spotted something:


LUCKY again.


Then we got to King Kong's front door, only to find that a private group had booked the ENTIRE restaurant until 3 pm (this was at 12:30.) Our luck ran out. We ended up grabbing a quick lunch at a not so spectacular burger chain called MOS burger. It wasn't even worth taking pictures of, but this sign on the wall was interesting:




Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Can we park here? (AKA Update #2)

Lyle and I went to dinner at a place we had been hearing about - Dragon's Chinese. It is a tiny (and I mean small) place with limited decor and a not so clean feeling about it. But let me tell you the food was yummy and very cheap. I didn't take pictures because there wasn't a lot to take pictures of, it looked like a typical old diner.
The parking lot did offer a photo opportunity tho. We weren't sure if we parked in the correct area or not. This sign did nothing to reassure us that our car would be there when we finished eating.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Catch Up Post #1

I have fallen behind..... AGAIN! Now, in my defense, I have been busy with work, home, kids and a hubby that has been working weird shifts over the last week. But in the end it comes down to one thing... FACEBOOK.

You all know what I mean, I sign on my computer with the intent of updating my blog, answering email, posting items for sale on Okinawayardsales.com, but first I have to check Facebook, then just a minute to try to beat Susan's score on Bejeweled Blitz, a second to escape from my latest kidnapper, one quick game of FARKLE. Next thing I know, my day is gone and nothing has been updated, answered or posted.

Enough excuses, on with the update. I took Chris out for a "mom and son" evening, while Lyle and Stephanie went to a Girl Scout function. Both of us had been wanting to try out a place called Gordy's. We had both heard, from different sources, that this was THE place for homemade burgers on island. So we picked up some yen and headed out.

It is a quiet and cozy little place, only a few tables inside and a few more outside. I was a little worried since it was a Friday night and we were one of two small groups choosing to dine there, but we were already committed since the waitress had brought us menus and water. Chris opted for the traditional Cheeseburger set, I went with a Teriyaki Burger, we decided to share an extra side of Onion Rings.

Our meal came with a cup of soup:
It was very similar to a French Onion Soup, without the cheesy, crusty slice of french bread on top.

Our onion rings were super good, with a light beer batter type breading and fresh sliced onion underneath:
Chris with his Cheeseburger. Notice the size of that burger!

My Teriyaki burger came wrapped in it's own paper. Good thing too as it was the juiciest, sloppiest best burger I have ever had (other than my own... of course):
The only thing Gordy's was missing was Malts. These burgers would have been over the top if we had had chocolate malts to chase them down with.
Since there wasn't a dessert menu, we chose to go to our family favorite: Family Mart.
I got the chocolate eclair, Chris got the parfait all for under 400 yen (about $4).
I have since tried to go back to Gordy's on a date with my husband. Once for lunch on a Thursday.... they are closed on Thursday's. And then again on Friday night. Unfortunately we got there at 7:55 and they close for the night at 8 pm. We will be trying again.... soon!