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
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
25 Jan

After dinner we walked to Hakata Station and went around the food level of Hankyu to try food samples and look at their bread and sweets. I love sweet potato, so I was going to get a slice of a sweet potato cake that seemed pretty popular. Dad and I managed to get a sample of before buying it. It was creamier than I imagined it would be so I didn’t get any in the end. One slice was ¥250 and whole cakes were sold by weight. [gallery columns="2"...

17:54 / Dessert/Sweets / Fukuoka / Japan / Japanese / Misc. Snacks / Travel
24 Jan

The setting for this dinner area was much, much nicer than the one we ate in yesterday. Each shabu shabu table has its own separate booth for privacy. Dad had earlier selected the cheaper option, being ¥1350 each. The more expensive option was ¥2000. For entrees there was a red miso soup, lotus topped with a flower-shaped sweet potato, steamed pumpkin, broccoli sushi, daikon salad, a small fish, a slice of a salmon/daikon roll and a square ‘box’ of daikon filled with soy beans. Our two main platters had...

21:52 / Food / Japanese / Restaurants / Travel / Yawaraginosato Yadoya / Yufuin
24 Jan

This was the first of the jigoku aka 'hell pools' we visited in Beppu. The light blue pool, Umi Jigoku, is the only one that's hot enough to cook eggs in and it had a basket of eggs hanging off a rod, sitting in the water. Inside the visitor centre we bought a bag of five of these steamed eggs for ¥300. They were cooked very nicely and the bag also included a small sachet of salt to use. We ate these inside the centre where they had low...

21:40 / Beppu / Food / Japanese / Restaurants / Travel / Umi Jigoku
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