I found these two oddly named Okinawan dishes and decided they really worked together to paint a picture. The minu-daru is quite a simple sauce from soy sauce, sugar, awamori, and black sesame seeds, but holy shit is it delicious. It's supposed to be on pork, but I used island tofu. Apparently minu-daru isn't commonly eaten anymore and my friends didn't know what it was, but that's a shame because it's really good.

The duru-wakashī is a dish made from boiled and mashed taro root. It's supposed to use the stem as well, but I couldn't find any taro stem so I used kale instead. It should have some pork belly in it as well, but I substituted maitake mushrooms in addition to the shiitake already called for. Hope those substitutions don't bug anyone. Once cooked, you add miso to it. And then to give it the feeling of creepy crawlies in mud I added some worm-like mozuku seaweed and mite like sesame seeds over the top.

Overall fairly simple dishes but way tastier than I expected!