26 Jan

The parents brought us to this popular claypot restaurant that they ate at during their last visit to Hong Kong. We ordered fish ball soup and three claypot rice: chicken and mushroom, pork mince and salted fish and a sparerib claypot. All the claypots came with gai lan and there were plenty of lovely crunchy bits at the bottom. The sauce was given in a separate bowl so we added it to our own bowls after taking from the main dish. It seemed like the claypots and a...

23:15 / Chinese / Food / Hong Kong / Ming Yuen Noodle Restaurant / Restaurants / Travel
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
26 Jan

After our claypot dinner we walked through the flea market and tasted a mango and cream crepe from this rather popular stall. The next day I was passing through the same street and decided to try a meat mince/preserved vegetable bun, which they’re famous for (13HKD) and a red bean “teeth” pastry (6HKD). [gallery columns="2" link="none" type="rectangular" ids="1772,1774,1776,1778,1780,1782,1783,1785,1786"]...

17:37 / Chinese / Dessert/Sweets / Hong Kong / Misc. Snacks / Travel
25 Jan

I’ve heard that the ramen at Ichiran is among the best in Fukuoka and that it had a unique eating experience. I was desperate to try it. We filled out the English order forms at the front, paid for our meal tickets at the machine then waited for some booths to empty out. Luckily it didn’t take long for four seats in a row to become available. All of us had the ramen and a hard-boiled, salted egg (¥790+100). Mum also added in some ‘laver’, which she believes...

22:54 / Food / Fukuoka / Ichiran / Japan / Japanese / Restaurants / Travel
25 Jan

Being our last lunch meal in Japan, I wanted something that I could only get here i.e. a good bowl of Japanese noodles. There was only one noodle store here. A2 got udon with an egg and some mince (it tasted a bit like bolognaise to me, but mum liked this better than the one I ordered). Mine was a black pork udon; both were ¥740. For some reason there were flat bits in the udon, like it got squashed. Mum thought the noodles were nice, but they...

22:51 / Food / Hot Drinks / Japan / Japanese / Premium Outlets / Restaurants / Tosu / Travel
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