Japanese Food

Yoroiya Ramen, Asakusa - Tokyo

nobody@vox.com(kualibiru) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:12:03 -0800

I only realize that I am hungry after spending half day exploring Sensoji Temple at Asakusa. I proceed to explore the area to hunt for lunch and I found Yoroiya Ramen shop! The weather is just perfect for that hot bowl of soup noodle :)

The waitress who served me can speak chinese fluently and later I found out she's from China and she also speaks fluent Japanese *envy*.

I ordered soya sauce based ramen with tamago as topping. The egg is so delicious and I saw some write up inside the shop telling about the double yolk of the tamago *not that I can read, picture speaks for itself :)*

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Yoroiya Ramen
Located at: 1-36-7, Asakusa, Taito-ku,
Tokyo
Five minutes walk from Asakusa Station,
Ginza Subway Line
1130am -0830pm
Ramen: starting from 650yen

My rating: Worth coming back if you are a big fan of soya sauce based ramen.

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A Waffle-ly Good Time

nobody@vox.com(Ann) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:08:59 -0800

Kobe-Fugetsudo Waffles profile

Kobe-Fugetsudo Waffles

Kobe-Fugetsudo matcha red bean

Kobe-Fugetsudo waffle with chestnut

The Mitsuwa Japanese market holds food fairs to highlight the foods of a season or region. Last month it was the Autumn food fair. Local Japanese restaurants and food purveyors from Japan set up mini-shops to celebrate the coming of Fall.

We got there too late, so most of the treats had run out. I really wanted to try some Japanese regional Autumn specialties, so I passed on the onigiri (riceballs) and just bought the Kobe-Fugetsudo waffles. They ran out of the original cream filled, but we snatched up the other two flavors - chestnut and matcha red bean.

The chestnut had a whole chestnut in the waffle. It's slightly powdery texture was a nice contrast to the silky chestnut cream. The matcha red bean wasn't anything to run home about. I'm not a fan of sweet grean tea flavored treats overall. I enjoy green tea's slight bitterness.

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岩手県立大学

nobody@vox.com(hsasaki) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:06:57 -0800

2009年11月13日(金)　昼食

岩手県立大学にて、

カツカレーとサラダ

を食べた。

http://www.iwate-pu.ac.jp/

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かぼちゃのチャツネ

nobody@vox.com(charan) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:05:08 -0700

前回作った　『グリーントマトのチャツネ』＊が思った以上に美味しく、評判がよかったので、今回は　『かぼちゃのチャツネ』を作ってみました。

レシピは、『グリーントマトのチャツネ』の講習会の時頂いたレシピに一緒に載っていたものですが、味を考えて少し変えて使いました。

材料は、

かぼちゃ1.2ｋｇ（バターナッツ＊を使用）、紅玉750g、しょうが75g、鷹の爪4本、リンゴ酢400ｍｌ（またはかぼちゃの30％くらい）、

ブラウンシュガーまたは白砂糖300ｇ、塩小さじ1　です。

バターナッツのチャツネの材料　09.10.24

作り方は

①皮をむき種をとったバターナッツとリンゴを大きめにカットして、リンゴ酢、細切りにしたしょうがと種を取って輪切りにした鷹の爪と一緒に煮ます。

煮込む前の鍋の中～バターナッツのチャツネ　

②バターナッツがやわらかくなったら（約25分くらい）、砂糖と塩を入れ、とろ火でゆっくり水気がほとんどなくなるまで煮詰めます。（約1時間）

③煮沸消毒したビンに詰め、1ヶ月後に食べられますが、時間がたつほど風味が増すそうです。ふたを開けなければ冷暗所で2年持ちます。　

下のような小ビン（350ml位）3個と大ビン（500ml位）1個分できました。　入りきらなかった1カップ分くらいは少しずつ食べてしまうことにします。

ビンに詰めたバターナッツのチャツネ

早速、トマトのチャツネと味比べをするつもりで、同じようにリッツの上にクリームチーズを塗り、その上にチャツネを乗せました。

甘酸っぱさの中にジンジャーの香りとトウガラシのピリリとした辛みが効いて、シナモンやクローブのスパイシーな香りがしたトマトのチャツネとは違った美味しさがあります。

色はオレンジマーマレードのようで、綺麗です。1ヶ月後、1年後が楽しみですが、これも1ビン2ビンとふたを開けて食べてしまいそうで、気を付けねば・・・・。

黄金色のバターナッツのチャツネ

『グリーントマトのチャツネ』http://charan-hi.vox.com/library/post/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%84%E3%83%8D%E4%BD%9C%E3%82%8A.html

バターナッツhttp://poran.vox.com/library/post/%E3%83%90%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%83%E3%83%84%E3%81%AE%E6%96%99%E7%90%86.html

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長崎皿うどん| 中央軒

nobody@vox.com(shin) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:14:50 -0800

お昼ご飯は、大阪市内にある中央軒で皿うどんを食べてました。

実は、ココ友人に教えもらったお店なんです。

こいつに、お酢をいっぱいかけて食べたら美味しかったですよ。

今度は、麺が長崎から直送されている、チャンポンを食べてみるかな。

P1003402.jpg

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安兵衛

nobody@vox.com(hsasaki) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:06:55 -0800

NEC_1759

2009年11月6日(金)　夕食

安兵衛にて、まむしを飲んだ。

ここは、安くて、美味しいですよ！！！

(^^)/

安兵衛
岩手県盛岡市中央通２丁目１－３２
019-651-5540‎

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松屋とじゃんじゃんと開運の湯

nobody@vox.com(hsasaki) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:18:50 -0800

2009年11月7日(土)

朝食は、松屋で食べた。
盛岡の大通商店街の情報収集を行った。

昼食は、じゃんじゃんで、
餃子とじゃじゃめんを食べた。
美味い！

午後は、膝が痛かったので、
開運の湯にある、プルガマで遠赤外線のシャワーを浴びた。
入浴前：　75.8kg
入浴後：　74.8kg
1kgほど体重が減っていた。
喜盛の湯の方が安いということで人気があるようですが、
施設内での飲料水の購入を考えると、
どちらも同じ様な金額になります。

http://www.kaiunnoyu.com/index.html

(^^)/

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Finally! Daikokuya

nobody@vox.com(Ann) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:11:50 -0800

Gyoza Daikokuya

I've been reading about this place forever and every attempt to eat here has driven me elsewhere or to Mr. Ramen, home for waiting-in-long-line quitters. This time I had Him by my side and He wouldn't let me quit. So, we shivered in the autumn wind, huddling close to the glow behind Daikokuya's famous yellow awning with hopes of eating a warm bowl of ramen.

Standing outside we, well I, had the chance to thoroughly read the menu and decide on our orders. We were getting the ramen, gyoza for me, fried rice and sausages for him. The gyoza made me curious - they were rectangle and not the cresent shape I grew up with. Must. Have. Them.

Sausages Daikokuya

Instead of gyoza a plate of green onions came out with a garnish of gyoza. There was so much green onion, I brushed them aside to save them for my ramen. I thought the gyoza and sauce was pretty weak. I'm used to more ginger in the dumpling filling and the ponzu sauce wasn't as citrusy. They were fried nicely though, so not a total fail.

The sausages (really hot dogs) were very tasty with the mustard on the side. Not cut into octo-dogs, but that's okay. I've never had Japanese fried rice. It just tasted like fried rice. I prefer my mom's version (I guess it's Vietnamese fried rice?) since it has Chinese sausage in it.

fried rice Daikokuya

From where we were seated we got a great view into the tiny gally kitchen. It was cool to watch the cooks dance around each other in a flurry,hustling to get our order out. I noticed one guy at the wok and I knew he was making the fried rice order. Another guy was stirring a large stock pot with the ramen soup base in it. He was obviously preparing our Daikoku ramen.

Making fried rice at Daikokuya

Making ramen at Daikokuya

Finally our ramen arrived. I turned mine into negi (green onion) ramen by adding all that green onion from the gyoza to the soup. Maybe I'm just so used to Santouka's strong soup, but I found Daikoku's soup rather lite in flavor. But it might also be because Daikoku's ramen is soy sauce and pork flavored. At Santouka you can pick from salt, soy, or miso flavors. I really loved that Daikoku's ramen includes an egg. It was soft boiled, so the yolk was slightly runny inside. Perfect.

Daikokuya Ramen

I finally did it! I've eaten at Daikokuya. Would I go back now? Sure, but probably not for the ramen. I'd like to try their donburi, rice bowls.

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