20 Jan

Amao strawberries from Fukuoka are supposedly famous. The small tub of 4.5 strawberries was ¥198 from the Parco supermarket. Larger punnets were ¥580 – about 7AUD. The strawberries were a very pale, red colour and the inside was also very pale – almost completely white – but they were worth the expense as they were incredibly sweet. There are also Amao strawberries that look and taste more like the ones at home. Later in HK I spotted 500g punnets of imported Fukuoka Amao strawberries selling for nearly 20AUD each. [gallery...

19:57 / Fruit / Fukuoka / Japan / Travel / Whole Foods
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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