20 Jan

We bought these from a small grocery store we passed on the way to Arita along with another large punnet of Amaou strawberries. One bun was white with many pieces of purple sweet potato. Another was a green tea bun with red bean paste. The red bean paste wasn’t as sweet as normal, and I prefer it that way. I liked the sweet potato one better through. Later on during one of our many car drives we ate the rest of the bao. All of them had red...

20:19 / Dessert/Sweets / Japan / Japanese / Misc. Snacks / Travel
20 Jan

Arita is a small pottery town. We drove up and down different streets looking for restaurants, but almost every shop was a pottery shop and the one restaurant we did see was a Chinese restaurant, which mum wasn’t keen on. In the end we went into the tourist information centre to ask where the restaurants were. The ladies directed us to a store around the corner. We walked around but couldn’t find it so we had to go back and ask them again. It turned out that the...

20:00 / Arita / Japan / Japanese / Pottery Store / Travel
19 Jan

After missing out on the opportunity to try this restaurant earlier today, we returned for dinner. This restaurant was a nicely decorated and cleaner restaurant, which also had Japanese-style private rooms available. The waitress convinced mum to order a small platter of various fish paste items for ¥1000. We also ordered two bowls of udon – one with the ‘original’ broth and the other with miso (¥890 each). Having curry broth costs extra. Mum thought the udon at West was nicer because hers was a bit ‘soggy’. I...

19:25 / Food / Fukuoka / Japan / Japanese / Minematsuhonke / Restaurants / Travel
19 Jan

West is a chain restaurant and they have two different types of stores: one type does udon and the other cooks grilled food. Mum shared an udon (¥390) and a plain and chicken onigiri (¥90 each) with A2. Their udon didn’t come with soup, but had a special pouring sauce, bonito, spring onion, raw/very slightly poached egg and seaweed. The chicken onigiri was really good and I was surprised it was the same prices as the plain white rice one. I had an egg and beef udon (¥610) and...

18:24 / Food / Fukuoka / Japan / Japanese / Restaurants / Travel / West
17 Jan

One of the unique dining experiences in Fukuoka are the yatai stalls – little temporary eateries that are only set up in the evenings. Most yatai stalls sell ramen and/or grilled food. Our hotel happened to have a few set up across the street. We settled on a ramen stall. In the centre of the bench was a bain marie with various food items which we could add to our ramen. I picked a slice of daikon and a boiled egg for mine. There was also tofu, konyakku,...

22:17 / Food / Fukuoka / Japanese / Restaurants / Travel / Yatai Stall
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