20 Jan

For dinner we wanted to try shippoku, which is a banquet particular to Nagasaki and takes cues from Japanese, Chinese and Western cuisine. One of the famous shippoku restaurants in Nagasaki is Hamakatsu. All the waitresses were dressed traditionally and there was a choice of Japanese or Western seating. We thought of sitting on the tatami mats, but because of A2’s knee we settled on Western furniture. I didn’t see anyone in the Japanese section. All of us ordered the third cheapest option, which was called Bura-bura shippoku (¥3750)....

20:25 / Food / Hamakatsu / Japan / Japanese / Nagasaki / Restaurants / 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
18 Jan

While researching good restaurants in Fukuoka I came across an udon restaurant called Minematsuhonke. I thought it would be good to try it for breakfast, but when we arrived we discovered they didn’t open until 11am. After walking around a bit more we found a restaurant down the hallway that was preparing bento boxes to sell. We bought two different ones; a salmon and a meatball bento. Both also came with spaghetti-like noodles, coleslaw, rice (one with white, one with a nice brown ?soy rice), egg, sliced lotus...

18:24 / Bento Box Restaurant / Food / Fukuoka / Japan / Restaurants / Travel
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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