October 27, 2016 • mccsokinawa.com
Thomas Alan Smilie
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ife is complicated, but finding happiness is simple. It’s so simple, as superior beings of intellect, that we over-calculate and over-think how to pinpoint and sustain happiness, and we let it pass by. For as much as we like to romanticize ourselves to be, most joys are stupidly basic: watching a kitten learn how to drink out of a bowl, a breeze on a warm day, second dates or eating sâtâ andagî. Sâtâ andagî (meaning sugar, deep fried) is made of simple ingredients—flour, sugar, and eggs mixed into a ball and deep fried. Crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, sâtâ andagî is a cross between a sugar cookie and an old-fash-
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ioned doughnut. Happiness isn’t complicated when you realize that it can be created with three ingredients and a deep fryer. Sâtâ andagî isn’t as commercially successful as other Okinawan cuisines like Okinawa soba or gôyâ champurû. You see them mostly in tourist shops or an Okinawan grandma’s kitchen. But it’s so widely loved you might wonder why. Sâtâ andagî isn’t one for fanfare. Perfecting its form is what’s important. To learn more about this and many other unique aspects of Okinawan culture, check out Marine and Family Programs-Resources
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