24 Jan

The breakfast buffet service ended at 9am, so we were forced to have an earlier breakfast. There was a lot of food, but not a lot of standouts. They had okra with a peanut sauce (originally I thought it had chopped natto on it because the paste looked sticky), a perfectly poached (and cold) egg, watery porridge, weak miso, almond agar agar jelly, natural yoghurt along with a bowl of marmalade to be added on top, salads, cold vermicelli and black fungus, corn soup, grilled fish, huge blocks...

21:28 / Cafe / Food / Japan / Japanese / QKamura Minami Aso / Restaurants / Takamori-machi / Travel
23 Jan

The food wasn’t that great at this dinner buffet and the restaurant area was a bit dingy-looking. Among the selections were: sashimi, thin steak, barbequed fish on a stick, yam/tofu/square squishy thing on a stick with ground bean paste, salad, black pork ramen, soba, beef/carrot stew, fish/daikon stew, battered prawns, chilli and sesame seed lotus root, mayonnaise chicken, tofu with pork, grilled fish, vermicelli/wombok/shrimp/quail egg soup, soy milk soup, stew with long, flat wheat strips (sort of like the Malaysian ‘peasant’ noodle, mee hoon kueh, but not) and...

21:23 / Food / Japan / Japanese / QKamura Minami Aso / Restaurants / Takamori-machi / Travel
23 Jan

The breakfast buffet items available were: salad, pasta salad, frankfurts, port katsu, another longish deep-fried thing that not many people ate, egg with tomato sauce, the layered egg that I don’t like, tofu (vinegar and spring onion were provided in a separate plate), corn flakes, a slice of pork wrapped in cabbage and tied together with what could have been an enoki or similar mushroom, fried/cured ?mackerel, porridge, plain rice, chicken soup, miso, natto, chopped oranges and banana halves. The miso had daikon, potato, sweet potato, carrots and...

21:19 / Cafe / Food / Japan / Japanese / Kagoshima / Restaurants / Sun Day Inn / Travel
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

I was craving oyakodon and we managed to get one of the receptionists to recommend a restaurant that served it. She must have called the restaurant because almost as soon as we entered, the waitress said ‘oyakodon?’. Just as well we actually went to that restaurant. I had oyakodon (¥480), Dad had katsudon (¥580), A2 had beef udon and mum had a bitter gourd and spam don (goya don, ¥530). The egg in the oyakodon was still runny – the way it’s supposed to be – and it...

21:01 / Cafe / Food / Japan / Japanese / Kagoshima / Restaurants / Travel
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