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
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
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