"Rafte" is a dish of pork stuwed well with brown sugar, soy sauce, awamori until they are very soft.
During the Ryukyu Dynasty, a Chinese pig cook "Tong Porro" was instroduced, the Ryukyu King at the time was very fond of it, it became a dish of the court dish.
The characteristic of rafte is to use Okinawa's sake "Awamori" during cooking.
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