The wife is from a small island 12 hours boat ride off of Okinawa heading towards Taiwan. The mother in-law was not fond of me dating, and then marrying her daughter until we showed up fresh off the boat from Okinawa on our honeymoon. To celebrate our arrival, she went down to the local beach and found every living creature that was edible and stuck it in the cooking put. I can only remember a few things like sea cucumber, seaweed, snails, land crabs and other tasty items off the land. Her thinking was that she would find just one more reason to dislike/distrust me after refusing to eat the content simmering in the pot. When the dinner bell rang, this hungry dog’s tail was wagon and was ready to chomp. The contents were defiantly not familiar to my western eye, but I dug in wielding my chop sticks at everything on that table. My wife was amassed but my mother in-law was in shock. From that moment on she loved me and treated me like I was her son. While visiting she made tofu out in the backyard and I never had anything better. Deep fried bananas, sugar cane tempura balls, dang could she cook. I have had some very interesting meals over the years but none like that first one my mother in-law came up with.