22 Jan

Mum wasn't satisfied by dinner so we walked to a nearby McDonald's to try one of the items unique to Japan - Blueberry and Cream Cheese Pie. The Pie is triangular rather than the familiar rectangular shape. It would have been nice to see a greater filling to pastry ratio. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Blueberry and Cream Cheese Pie[/caption]...

21:07 / Dessert/Sweets / Fast Food / Food / Japan / Kagoshima / McDonald's / Restaurants / Travel
22 Jan

This particular roadside food stop had a snack store, a proper restaurant, a canteen-style eatery that used a ticket machine and two food stalls out the front. The food stalls were selling things like barbecued chicken and red bean fish-shaped waffles. I was the only one who was hungry so I bought a bowl of udon with two slices of chicken and a big fish cake (¥550). A2 purchased a packet of two onigiri; one had preserved plum in the middle and the other was plain with furikake...

20:58 / Dessert/Sweets / Food / Japan / Japanese / Restaurants / Travel
21 Jan

Today we were driving from Nagasaki to catch a ferry to Kumamoto. At one of the towns on the way we stopped at another grocery store and bought some strawberries, a chopped up orange, some bright green honeydew (it was an avocado green colour), some browned/baked beans and a packet of red bean/chestnut buns. We thought the packet of buns we picked up only had chestnut in it, which was what we wanted. [gallery order="DESC" columns="2"]...

17:49 / Dessert/Sweets / Japan / Japanese / Misc. Snacks / Travel
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
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