As luck would have it, there was a festival going on in Shirokane. I’d been planning to have lunch, but decided to just graze on some street snacks instead.
An amateur orchestra playing
I can’t say they were all that good… but, well… it somehow suited the festival mood perfectly.
The little street is packed with people.
It’s full of families and kids holding their moms’ hands.
Festivals aren’t just for grown-ups; kids love them too. There’s so much fun and curious stuff around. I’m a full-grown adult, so festivals don’t exactly thrill me, but still, the Shirokane festival is one of the more fun ones.
A stall run by a well-known local restaurant
The menu is unusual. Normal festivals only have professional vendor-type stalls, but here the area’s famous shops set up stalls, so the food tastes good and the atmosphere is livelier too.
A stall from a yakiniku specialist
Everything looks tasty, but there’s so much of this that you have to choose carefully.
If you walk all the way to the end…
There are quite a lot of stalls… so you have to do a lap first and then eat according to plan.
Scallops from Hokkaido
Didn’t get to try these…
Ayu (sweetfish)
I tried this one, and it was farmed -_- Well, I guess that’s to be expected…
Jijimi (Korean pancake)
Korean street stalls seem to be trendy these days. There were three or four of them.
Yakitori
They looked good, so I bought a few skewers.
Kuro yakisoba (black yakisoba)
Apparently it has squid ink in it, but compared to regular yakisoba it wasn’t all that great. The kind of thing you buy just because it’s a novelty.
Yakitori
A light bite before stopping by a friend’s place to go for lunch -_-
Pork stomach
They told me what it’s called but I forgot… It tasted similar to Okinawan mimiga.