Always Honeymoon (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} alwayshoneymoon) wrote,@ 2004-04-11 00:46:00 |
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We took several food photos while we were in Japan, but because they're very large, I'm just going to link to them from here.
1) The Denny's menu in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Note the English at the bottom. I tried to sharpen it, but here's...
2) a close-up. That's right: Foie gras with truffles and caviar. At Denny's. For about $16 US.
3) A Denny's dessert, described previously in this journal.
4) Another Denny's dessert. This one includes malt balls, brownies, puff pastry, and bananas, among other things.
5) This is a cream-cheese-and-jam sandwich from the convenience store.
6) Sashimi at the ryokan in Kurashiki. Notice the flower branch! Even plum blossoms weren't blooming in January, so I suppose they forced it indoors. I think it's considered seasonal anyway because of the New Year's holiday.
7) You can't see the food, but this is a semi-outdoor noodle house at Kiyomizu-dera. Clint got lots of attention whenever he ate because he was able to sit Japanese-style.
8) Hot drinks at a train-platform vending machine. The ones with red labels are hot; blue are cold. The Royal Milk Tea was our favorite.
9) Kaiseki cuisine at the ryokan in Hiroshima. Yes, those are real pine needles.
10) More from Hiroshima. You can probably guess I didn't eat a lot of this meal...but Clint did! The candied tangerine was good though.
11) Hiroshima really had elaborate kaiseki. The little "teepee" structure imitates the coverings put over trees and bushes to protect them from snow. (It looks like I missed a photo of the meal with gold foil on it.)
12) Another elegant Hiroshima plate with New Year's touches. (These were individual courses, not the whole meal.) The realistic-looking persimmon was actually mochi candy.
13) Mos Burger, Japan's home-grown fast food.
14) A riceburger at Mos Burger wasn't what we expected. The "buns" were made of rice and the filling was Japanese vegetables and nori and stuff.
15) One of my favorite ryokan courses was this tofu stew in Kyoto. It was delicious.
16) A sheaf-of-wheat sweet. It tasted good and the two parts were made differently. At ryokan, someone usually greets your initial arrival and each return-for-the-night with a sweet and hot tea. Especially nice in the winter!
17) One of our first kaiseki meals at the ryokan in Gion, Kyoto. And this wasn't all of it! Since it was winter, most of the kaiskei meals included a hot soup/stew course, which cooked on the table as you can see here. At this ryokan, the room maids (I don't know the right term) pulled a long lighter out of their obi (kimono sashes) and lit the heat source every night. They didn't *stick* the lighter in their obi; instead, it rested horizontally in a loop of the sash. Pretty elegant!
18) Mister Donut! Only historically related to the American chain, this place features great American and Japanese (rice flour-based) doughnuts. We loved 'em. They had churros, pizza-flavored doughnut holes, and all sorts of things.
19) Oh, I forgot one! Another plate in Hiroshima. I think it's fugu. It was really good, whatever it was.
If the linked images are too large, you can see the thumbnails here:
http://img47.photobucket.com/albums/v14
Oishiikatta desu! (Delicious!)
We took several food photos while we were in Japan, but because they're very large, I'm just going to link to them from here.
1) The Denny's menu in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Note the English at the bottom. I tried to sharpen it, but here's...
2) a close-up. That's right: Foie gras with truffles and caviar. At Denny's. For about $16 US.
3) A Denny's dessert, described previously in this journal.
4) Another Denny's dessert. This one includes malt balls, brownies, puff pastry, and bananas, among other things.
5) This is a cream-cheese-and-jam sandwich from the convenience store.
6) Sashimi at the ryokan in Kurashiki. Notice the flower branch! Even plum blossoms weren't blooming in January, so I suppose they forced it indoors. I think it's considered seasonal anyway because of the New Year's holiday.
7) You can't see the food, but this is a semi-outdoor noodle house at Kiyomizu-dera. Clint got lots of attention whenever he ate because he was able to sit Japanese-style.
8) Hot drinks at a train-platform vending machine. The ones with red labels are hot; blue are cold. The Royal Milk Tea was our favorite.
9) Kaiseki cuisine at the ryokan in Hiroshima. Yes, those are real pine needles.
10) More from Hiroshima. You can probably guess I didn't eat a lot of this meal...but Clint did! The candied tangerine was good though.
11) Hiroshima really had elaborate kaiseki. The little "teepee" structure imitates the coverings put over trees and bushes to protect them from snow. (It looks like I missed a photo of the meal with gold foil on it.)
12) Another elegant Hiroshima plate with New Year's touches. (These were individual courses, not the whole meal.) The realistic-looking persimmon was actually mochi candy.
13) Mos Burger, Japan's home-grown fast food.
14) A riceburger at Mos Burger wasn't what we expected. The "buns" were made of rice and the filling was Japanese vegetables and nori and stuff.
15) One of my favorite ryokan courses was this tofu stew in Kyoto. It was delicious.
16) A sheaf-of-wheat sweet. It tasted good and the two parts were made differently. At ryokan, someone usually greets your initial arrival and each return-for-the-night with a sweet and hot tea. Especially nice in the winter!
17) One of our first kaiseki meals at the ryokan in Gion, Kyoto. And this wasn't all of it! Since it was winter, most of the kaiskei meals included a hot soup/stew course, which cooked on the table as you can see here. At this ryokan, the room maids (I don't know the right term) pulled a long lighter out of their obi (kimono sashes) and lit the heat source every night. They didn't *stick* the lighter in their obi; instead, it rested horizontally in a loop of the sash. Pretty elegant!
18) Mister Donut! Only historically related to the American chain, this place features great American and Japanese (rice flour-based) doughnuts. We loved 'em. They had churros, pizza-flavored doughnut holes, and all sorts of things.
19) Oh, I forgot one! Another plate in Hiroshima. I think it's fugu. It was really good, whatever it was.
If the linked images are too large, you can see the thumbnails here:
http://img47.photobucket.com/albums/v14
Oishiikatta desu! (Delicious!)
