2004 OKINAWAN FESTIVAL MENU

It’s Okinawan “soul food” — and masan (Okinawan for downright ono!) to the max! Champuru . . . Andamisu . . . Okidog . . . Tumai kuru . . . Andagi . . . Ashitibichi. Make sure you try everything before this year’s Okinawan Festival comes to a close.

• Pig’s Feet Soup: In Uchinaaguchi (Okinawan language), it’s called ashitibichi. Pig’s feet and spareribs are cooked in a soup stock and garnished with konbu (seaweed), daikon (radish), togan (squash) and mustard cabbage — and served with hot rice — $6 (24 scrips)

• Yaki Soba: Okinawan-style soba noodles stir-fried with vegetables and luncheon meat and a special chef’s sauce — $5 (20 scrips)

• Okinawan Soba: Okinawan-style soba noodles served in hot soup and garnished with kamaboko (fishcake), shoyu pork, green onions and red ginger — $4 (16 scrips)

Note: Okinawan Soba, andagi and soft drinks will be sold during the Saturday bon dance, which begins at 6 p.m. — all other food booths will close at 5 p.m.

• Champuru Plate: If you love Okinawan food, you’ll love this plate: delicious shoyu pork, rice and champuru — a mixture of stir-fried vegetables and agedofu (deep-fried tofu) — served with andamisu (pork and miso mixture) and hot rice —  $6 (24 scrips)

• Okidog: A hotdog and chili are wrapped in a soft tortilla with shredded shoyu pork and lettuce — $5.50 (22 scrips)

• Chili Choices: Chili and rice plate served with a hotdog — $5 (20 scrips), or just chili and rice — $3.25 (13 scrips)

• Hawaiian Plates: Choose from two plates: kalua pork with rice and lomi lomi salmon — $5.50 (22 scrips); or kalua pork and laulau served with rice and lomi salmon — $7 (28 scrips)

• Chicken Plate: Barbecue chicken prepared local style and served with hot rice and corn — $6 (24 scrip), or just chicken in a carry-out bag — $4.25 (17 scrips)

• Tumai Kuru: Tumai kuru is the purple sweet potato that found its way to Hawaii from China by way of Okinawa. In Okinawa, it was a staple food which sustained the people through good times and bad. During Okinawa’s harsh typhoons, the potato remained protected underground. The tumai kuru served at the Festival will be steamed, making for a healthy snack — $1.50 (6 scrips) for a medium-size piece

• Maki sushi: Sushi rolled in nori (seaweed) and sliced for easy eating — $3.75 (15 scrips)

• Andagi: The andagi, or Okinawan doughnut, is an all-around Festival favorite. Basic doughnut ingredients, such as sugar, flour, milk and eggs, are mixed into a batter and deep-fried in hot oil. The hand “dropping” of evenly rounded scoops of batter into the hot oil is a show in itself. Three andagi per package — $1.50 (6 scrips)

• Andadog: The Okinawan version of the corndog. The andadog is a hotdog on a stick that is dipped into andagi batter and deep fried — $1 (4 scrips).

• Shave Ice: The perfect way to cool down on a hot summer day — $1.50 (6 scrips) — or a new treat this year: Pucker up for Li Hing Mui shave ice, with your li hing mui treat buried somewhere in the mountain of shave ice — $1.75 (7 scrips)

• Beverages:

      Canned juice:  $1 (4 scrips)

      Bottled soda:  $1.75 (7 scrips)

      Chilled bottled water:  $1.50 (6 scrips)

      Soda by the cup:  75 cents (3 scrips)

      Coffee:  75 cents (3 scrips)