Tuesday, March 25, 2014

International breakfast buffet and more Japanese snacks


Top left clockwise: croissant, fish, fish cake, sausage. Scrambled eggs, pasta, pasta salad, congee with crueller and pickles, fermented soybean, whiting, grated radish. Jellyfish salad, beans, tofu, potato, sweet potato. Dimsum, omelette, tempura. I didn't eat it all but I did taste everything.
This is natto: fermented soybean.
Doesn't taste of anything but has the aroma of smelly feet. Not for me!
Japanese paella 
A sorbet type dessertade of potato with kiwi fruit coulis
Japanese sweet prior to green tea ceremony
Thin Green Tea
Bird shaped cake (thanks Y or C I forget)
Salted cherry blossoms (thanks H). I was tricked into trying this! We thought it was covered in sugar!!
Mochi
Breakfast green tea bun, sausage, bacon, French toast, omelett, Japanese
Potato salad (yum!) and spaghetti salad







Monday, March 24, 2014

Japanese meals and snacks

Japanese set lunch. Sweet miso mackerel, miso soup, rice and cold tofu

Lunch set is fried chicken in sauce, bamboo rice. Pickles and miso soup.
Green tea, chocolate and vanilla ice cream at Pinafore Maid Cafe

Giant rainbow Pocky (thanks A) in grape flavour 
Grape soft serve
Japanese breakfast with porridge
Sweetened mackerel jerky
Sweetened Wasabi rice cracker
Green tea kit Kat (thanks other A)
Hakone hot spring boiled egg (makes you live 7 years longer)
 
Dark chocolate kit Kat (thanks again other A)
Looks like a turd but it's a sweet potato pudding in cake. 
Green tea muffin with creme patisserie and red bean. Yay fusion



Saturday, March 22, 2014

Casual eating in Japan

Gyoza
Vat of boiled goodies at a 7 Eleven
Ramen 
Thin sheet of egg on flavoured rice
Handmade udon in creamy caviar broth with chicken, prawn and scallops (ok not very cheap)
Minced raw tuna on rice

Ramen
Fried rice and cold tofu
Sesame coffee (delicious!!!)

Japanese breakfasts...


Traditional Japanese breakfast (top left clockwise: fried fish with pickles served cold, fried salmon, pickled vegetable and plum, fish cake with sauce, miso soup, cold tofu with bean shoot and peas, steamed rice, poached egg in soya jelly). Wow.



Now the set menu from Japanese restaurant in Royal Prince Park tower hotel.