This is my new favorite snack food. I don’t know what it is, but the little squiggles are light and crispy and just barely kissed with salt.
Author: Stephanie
This is a fish
It is a fish. It is a fish filled with bean paste. It is a fish filled with bean paste that we bought from a corner stand near our hotel. And it is good.
The most alien thing of all
In Japan, the Close Elevator Door button works. Sent from my TRS-80
Takayama
Our last photo of Takayama, out of the window next to the elevator on our floor. No idea what that big building in the distance is, but it’s quite striking, isn’t it?
And one more post!
We had a fantastico lunch today in Takayama which I shall tell you more about later, but I’m posting a couple of cat pics that the house sitter sent us because they are amusing.
Closet
You know how some houses have walk-in closets?
New Year’s Breakfast
Even though it was January 2nd, the ryokan still served us a New Year’s breakfast. On to the photos!
New Year’s Kaiseki
When we stayed at the ryokan in Kyoto on the night of January 1st, we laid out for the full kaiseki dinner experience. A kaiseki dinner is a formal, traditional, multi-course Japanese meal. (That link goes to the Wikipedia entry, in case you want to read more.) On to the food!
Out the bus window
Condensation and motion blur gives this an atmospheric look. This is out the bus window on the way back from our half-day tour of Shirakawa-go.
Tunnel
We’re in the middle of the 3rd longest tunnel in Japan and our phones have full signal. So I made this post. It’s 11 km long, btw. Sent from my TRS-80