Food displays

This post is not exclusive to Okinawa, but it's certainly a Japanese item of interest. Many restaurants like to display their menu selections in the outside window of the establishment. It certainly makes it easy for us gaijin who cannot read the menus (although many menus also include photos) - but I think the real reason is to make people hungry! If I'm walking by a place and I see a huge bowl of ramen in the window - even if I wasn't hungry before - I'm thinking "Mmmmmmm - gimme some of that!" The displays are plastic, but very realistic.. and unlike photos of food at, say, McDonald's, the food they serve you looks very much like the displays!

Anyway, here is an example of a food display, outside a restaurant in China Town in Tokyo.