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The Japanese restaurant En on Taikang Lu serves regional Okinawan cuisine, which is stamped with the imprints of its Chinese and other southeast Asian neighbors. Amidst the fresh sashimi, fermented cuttlefish, and crispy yakitori that En's menu shares with its mainland Japanese brethren, you'll also come across the quintessential Okinawan goya chanpuru (40 RMB), a stir fry with egg, tofu and chunks of bitter melon clinging to thinly sliced pork belly. Or a somen version of the chanpuru (38 RMB), with thin angel hair-like pasta swimming in meaty fragrance. Pork plays an important role in Okinawan cooking, and at En there is no better manifestation of this than the negi chashu (45 RMB), thick slices of pork with streaks of fatty goodness, smothered in green onions and miso. Wash all that down with , the island's wonderful wheat-based shochu.