HAHAHA!! I LOVED it! Just got back from Oki again last week. I miss me some Orion and Asahi (and Kokosai Street) already!
To be honest, it hasnt changed that much. Gate2 Street is pretty much empty except for a couple bars near the big intersection on the opposite side of Kadena Gate 2, Whisper Alley is pretty much dead, couple 1000 year old women there who were probably there since the 70;s, Naha is still bustling and VERY alive on weekends (lots of SMOKIN hot Japanese college students!!!), other than that, it's pretty much the same island, same people, same ex-pats still running around. I go there as much as possible. I was born there, so I guess I have to like it, huh?
You just went to the wrong (crowded) places. Go up north toward Nago or up 58 to Moon Beach Resort. Now.... Thailand.... Woohoo!!! Go there with a couple hundred bucks, come back tired and dehydrated...
High Life is the best of the cheap beers, and it's better than a lot of the expensive ones. It's the only mega beer that I can drink. Spotted Cow kindof reminds me of High Life, only if they made it in small batches and with top of the line, quality ingredients. I used to really like Berghoff Beer from Monroe, Wi, I think that came out of the same brewery as Huber. Sprecher Black Bavarian is another fave, but it's spendy. But as the saying goes, "Life's too short to drink bad beer!!" MM, I got a question for you- can you get a decent brat down there in TX? My brother moved out east and he says he can't ever get a good brat or good cheese curds. God that must suck!!
no tere is no good brats. THe best you can do is Johnsonville and you know as well as me Johnsonville is not a brat... it's a small WI town. and no cheese curds I have EVER seen. and I'd venture a guess that if you did find some you wouldn't want to eat them. And DONT get me started on Pizza...... I am a Pizza fanatic and there is NOTHING here. there idea of good pizza is domino's. In WI I was never more then a few blocks from an excellent Pizza.... I totally took that for granted. here is my list of what I do first when I go to milwaukee. Golden Gyro in west allis.. both the best gyro and the best burgers. A good Pizza Fritz's pub friday fish fry beer