Things I ate in Hamamatsu
Nothing special, really. Ippudo ramen Ippudo, the chain you find all over Japan.. This time I got it as takeout, and it was good. Mitsuko apples Apparently a famous apple variety from Tsugaru. It tasted real…
Nothing special, really. Ippudo ramen Ippudo, the chain you find all over Japan.. This time I got it as takeout, and it was good. Mitsuko apples Apparently a famous apple variety from Tsugaru. It tasted real…
Shun is a local izakaya. The food is, well, just okay.. I went because we had a get-together. Sashimi Japan is the kind of place where you get decent sashimi at whichever izakaya you happen to walk into. Frie…
Nothing special, just some scenery I passed by, snapped and am putting up here. Scenery Scenery Scenery Scenery Scenery Scenery Scenery in central Hamamatsu The classic look of a small provincial city, …
Uoara is a place famous for its tendon. The place Bentenjima is a tourist spot, so I guess you could call this tourist-spot food.. The menu Tendon and the like. Tendon topped with prawns Well.. the portion …
Sorachi 1984, the legendary hop A beer built around bright, zesty hops. Fruity. Red Eye.. Tastes like tomato juice.. Hoptandu Korean beer has definitely gotten better.. but I am not sure about this one.. Ki…
It’s been quite a while since Menya Itadori, the curry tantanmen place, opened. Itadori is originally famous for its curry udon, so I figured it had to be good, but I just couldn’t find the time to…
The weather was nice, so I took some scenery shots. With weather this good, even iPhone photos come out pretty decent. Makes me wonder whether I really need a new camera… Well… compared to the ski…
Shunkado, the company famous for making unagi pie, Hamamatsu’s signature sweet, has built a sort of theme park (?) called nicoe. Besides unagi pie, they had all kinds of other products on display. The re…
Kijitei in Hamamatsu is a place that mainly serves game meat like pheasant and wild boar, but that day we ordered pork. Roughly what the plate looks like Being out in the countryside, it’s great value f…
There are three famous tonkatsu places in Hamamatsucho, and Musashiya is one of them. The quality is top-notch, but the catch is that there’s nothing cheap on the menu. Front entrance The place i…
Lately, whenever I fly into Japan, I’ve been going through Nagoya airport and heading on to Shizuoka. Might as well drop in on the relatives while I’m at it. Sashimi from the supermarket Yo…
We arrived at our first destination, Hamamatsu in Shizuoka, and had a light dinner. The place is a Japanese restaurant called Bansho, the kind of countryside spot where all sorts of dishes come out together on…