10 Feb

Compliments of the hotel, we were able to get breakfast to the value of $22 each at Bakini, situated on the ground floor of the Mint Rhapsody apartments. [gallery columns="2" type="rectangular" ids="1881,1889"] [caption id="attachment_1877" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Bircher Muesli w. Berry Compote[/caption] Me: Bircher Muesli, decaf long black. [gallery columns="2" type="rectangular" ids="1878,1879,1880"] Mum: Bakini Breakfast + extra smoked salmon, cappuccino. While waiting for our meal to arrive I was able to watch the chefs work in their open kitchen as they cooked breakfast and prepared food (and fresh pasta) for tonight. The bircher muesli tasted...

13:34 / Bistro Bakini / Cafe / Food / Melbourne Surrounds
26 Jan

Our last breakfast in Japan. There were salads, a vermicelli/potato/carrot cold stew, teriyaki mackerel, cured salmon, miso, porridge, rice, soft-boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, tofu, frankfurts, a nice selection of interesting breads, cereal (corn flakes, chocolate cereal and granola), lychee, oranges and grapefruit. There was a little bowl of bonito next to the tofu too. [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" ids="1523,1525,1526,1527"]...

23:06 / Cafe / Food / Fukuoka / Japan / Japanese / Leopalace Hotel / Restaurants / Travel
25 Jan

As we sat down to the breakfast table a waitress light our hotpot candle. On the side of the room were rice, miso, raw eggs (to be cooked in the hotpot), little packets of nori, drinks and desserts. The food they provided on platters were: ham with a light mustard sauce ?mayo, a piece of mackerel, mashed daikon with little whitefish on top, pickles and tofu. The tofu was a bit different to usual. It didn’t have such a strong, pungent taste, but tasted more of soy. There...

21:59 / Cafe / Food / Japan / Japanese / Restaurants / Travel / Yawaraginosato Yadoya / Yufuin
24 Jan

The breakfast buffet service ended at 9am, so we were forced to have an earlier breakfast. There was a lot of food, but not a lot of standouts. They had okra with a peanut sauce (originally I thought it had chopped natto on it because the paste looked sticky), a perfectly poached (and cold) egg, watery porridge, weak miso, almond agar agar jelly, natural yoghurt along with a bowl of marmalade to be added on top, salads, cold vermicelli and black fungus, corn soup, grilled fish, huge blocks...

21:28 / Cafe / Food / Japan / Japanese / QKamura Minami Aso / Restaurants / Takamori-machi / Travel
23 Jan

The breakfast buffet items available were: salad, pasta salad, frankfurts, port katsu, another longish deep-fried thing that not many people ate, egg with tomato sauce, the layered egg that I don’t like, tofu (vinegar and spring onion were provided in a separate plate), corn flakes, a slice of pork wrapped in cabbage and tied together with what could have been an enoki or similar mushroom, fried/cured ?mackerel, porridge, plain rice, chicken soup, miso, natto, chopped oranges and banana halves. The miso had daikon, potato, sweet potato, carrots and...

21:19 / Cafe / Food / Japan / Japanese / Kagoshima / Restaurants / Sun Day Inn / Travel
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