Sunday, January 8, 2017

Ramen Hiwamatanoburo ラー麺 陽はまた昇る @ Fushimi Inari Station Kyoto 京都 伏見稲荷

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Had chosen to stay at Airbnb while in Kyoto as the price was more affordable in comparison with a hotel. Arrived around 430pm and explored our accommodation a bit before venturing out to find food. Luckily, I suggested to eat nearby and we walked up and down that area for a while before deciding on ramen.

shopfront

Slide open the door to reveal a small cosy ramen shop. Think the staff was a tad too busy to entertain us so we just figured out what we needed to do.

Saw a small vending machine, so instinctively that'll be where we purchase our meal ticket. Ok, was feeling adventurous so had chosen one that had no picture. Item number two on the first row.

choose your dish
Just sit where you like and wait for your ramen to be served.

Chef at work
table seat
Niboshi Tori Tonkotsu Ramen ¥780
handmade noodles
thin, tender chashiu
Loved the ramen there. The soup was strongly flavoured and thick but yet slurpilicious. Friend thought it was a tad too salty but I thought it was just fine. The chashiu was of the thin, almost ham-like and so tender. Lava egg cannot be faulted. Delicious!

If you're ever there, don't forget to order the tori karaage. It looked so good!

Ramen Hiwamatanoburo

Location: 38-15, Fukakusa Ichinotsubocho, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, 612-0012
Contact: +81 75-642-5705
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hinobo915
Business Hours:
11:00~22:00
Closed on Thursdays and the second Wednesday of each month
 

Monday, January 2, 2017

Yakiniku Toraji 焼肉トラジ 名古屋セントラルタワーズ店 JR Central Towers Nagoya

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It was a quick lunch before heading to Kyoto. In the morning we were exploring Inuyama and returned to Nagoya for lunch and to get our luggage bags before continuing to Kyoto. As usual, we went to find food at JR Central Towers at Nagoya Station. All looked pretty enticing but we were in the mood for some meat. Hard to choose between steakhouse and this BBQ place. In the end, decided to just try Toraji.

We were given window seats but it was so hot, haha! Heat from the grill and heat from the window. Double grilled! The view was overlooking the tracks of the train station. Quite cool.

window seat
Ordered a yakiniku lunch set (S) for ¥1700. It has two prawns and some pieces of beef. For that price, there wasn't any Japanese beef included though. My friend had the Toraji lunch set at ¥2500 and that has Japanese beef.

charcoal grill, yay!
Yakiniku Lunch Set (S)

Was pretty happy with my set. Loved the seaweed soup, the small side salad and the kimchi. So yums. The meat was tasty, well marinated and tender. Lovely and value for money. It doesn't matter if it was not Japanese beef. Still loved it!

close up of the meat
let's get cooking

The meat only needed that quick sear and it was good to eat.

yummy in my tummy
Was surprised that there was dessert included in the meal. All diners got a complimentary ice-cream (like our ice-cream potong) of milk flavour.

ice-cream to end the meal
The service staff was friendly and helpful. The food was good and prices reasonable. Would love to return one day.

Yakiniku Toraji 焼肉トラジ 名古屋セントラルタワーズ店

Location: 〒450-6012 12F JR Central Building, 1-1-4 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi
Contact+81 52-589-8989
Reservation: opentable.jp
Business Hours
Lunch: 11:00 to 15:00
Dinner: 15:00 to 23:00 (Last order 22:00)

Sunday, January 1, 2017

Tetsuemon てつえもん JR Nagoya Station

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Funny how I had compiled a list of restaurants with food to eat before the trip and once there, it was all discarded. Yup, decided to be lazy and just eat around the hotel area or the station area.

But I had a clear idea of what to eat. For Nagoya, that would be hitsumabushi, oyakodon and tebasaki. So we did the grilled eel earlier that day, hence for dinner, we went to the basement food street and found a shop that has oyakodon and tebasaki (and drinks..but that's irrelevant).

menu

I wasn't feeling very hungry so shared the chicken wings with friend who was having the set with oyakodon. Imagine my disbelief when he said he hasn't tried any oyakodon before. I mean, how was that even possible!? Hmm, but I guess it is somewhat possible even in food haven like Singapore.

oyakodon
tebasaki

The chicken wings were nice but they were just fried wings. Think we got the wrong Nagoya wings. Hmm.

But anyways, I ordered a Chita highball. Feeling thirsty after visiting Nagoya Castle earlier that day.

Chita Highball with yuzu @ ¥510

And ordered some yakitori to go along with the drinks. Unfortunately, they ran out of hearts. Never mind, liver will do as well.

pork belly skewer
momo and reba



Tetsuemon てつえもん

Location: JR Nagoya Station Nagoya umaimon street, 1-1-4, Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi, 450-0002
Contact: 052-589-1255 (+81-52-589-1255) 
Website: https://tabelog.com/en/aichi/A2301/A230101/23058354/ 
Business Hours
11:00~23:00(L.O.22:00)
Lunch, Open on Sundays


 
 
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