Hello there! How have you been so far? I think I haven’t posted anything on my blog for a while, and I apologize for my laziness. You know once we get lazy, it’s hard for us to start again, right?
Today I want to write about Japanese cuisine in Kyoto and the cuisine is called Kyo-ryori in Japanese.
I went to a Japanese fancy restaurant called Tan-kuma (たん熊)with my husband and two of our mutual friends and ate together. We had a lot of fun there while chitchatting.
This is called sesame tofu made from sesames.
Fish soup called sumashi-jiru
Fresh raw fish called sashimi
Main dish
My favorite, eel rice! Mmmmm, yummy!
Dessert: green tea ice cream and kinako mochi with red beans
I went to Kyoto again with my other friend on a different day, and she and I ate different Japanese cuisines at another fancy restaurant. The restaurant name is Gion Yuyama. ( 祇園ゆやま)
Sesame tofu made from sesames
The restaurant chef. We sat in front of the chef, and we could watch him. It was fascinating.
Main dish
He is cutting tiny fish bones from a hamo ( a kind of fish which we eat in summer in Kyoto)
Egg plants, okura and oriental melon
Rice with shirasu (dried tiny fish), miso soup and some Japanese pickles
Dessert: Ice cream, sesame flavored pudding and coffee flavored gelatin with water melon
Both restaurants were really good, and I hardly can choose which was better.
Since we were in Kyoto, I want to introduce summer in Kyoto as well.
The street where we walked was very Kyoto. Each house has some blinds called sudare to block sun shine and keep inside cool.
I think this house is a tea house called ochaya which has geisha and maiko (geisha’s apprentice) because we can see square wood printed maiko and geisya names above the door.
After that, we went to another place to look around the pottery festival in Kyoto.
Since I went to the festival last year as well, I didn’t take many photos this time. I am sorry for this.
I bought some pottery for kintsugi techniques Japanese traditional techniques for pottery) which I am currently involved in. I will write about kintsugi techniques on my other blog entry soon. You will see what it is then.
Thank you so much for visiting my blog again! I will keep posting, stay tuned!!
-Yumi
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