合作是关键字 (Cooperation Is Key)
Hope you're sitting down cuz I'm about to drop a knowledge bomb on your ass the likes of which you haven't felt ever. Ready...dun dun duuuuun! The past couple of posts have sort of been a tour through Shintoshin, a new-ish area of Naha that was once...actually, I'm not sure what it was but it certainly wasn't what it is today. Maybe it was a garbage bunch filled with discarded dildos and sex dolls. Home to the previously written about Tsutaya and Muji, along with Uniqlo, Sports Depot, DFS, and Naha Main Place among other destinations, our final stop on this makeshift tour is Apple Town. It's located right between Rakuichi and the Okinawa Prefectural Museum, and the Co-op there is the grocery shopping hot spot in the area.
I know I've written about Japanese grocery stores before, but I don't think I've ever written about my favorite thing about them: the warm food section. I'm not a grocery store snob or anything but if the warm food section is anything but on point at a place I'm liable to head for the exit.
Good pizza is ridiculously hard to come by in Okinawa (Marianos and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too expensive Pizza La being some of the notable exceptions), but Sarra swears by the stuff made at the Co-op. Going by looks alone I'd have to agree with her.
Already cooked pre-packaged party platters are all the rage...
...as are small prepared and packaged bentos and, rice dishes, pastas, and other shit. Really though, who in their right mind would want to wake up at 4am to make an elaborate bento if you don't have kids and don't care about coming across as an unfit parent? And after working 10 hour days (because Japanese people don't know how to go home) I can't blame a person for not wanting to break out the pots and pans either.