Today I ventured to Maibara to visit a long time friend. Waking up early and going to the train station really means going to Mister Donut. They had a couple of new flavors I wanted to try.
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| Black Sugar Pon de Ring (left) Double Chocolate (right) |
Both were good in their own ways. The black sugar Pon de Ring tasted like sugar coated Pon de Ring. Didn't have that lingering subtle sweetness that original Pon de Ring has. The double chocolate was certainly very chocolatey almost like a brownie. In the end I still like original Pon de Ring the most.
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| Shop Front of Suehiro |
An old friend of mine took me to Nagahama. They have a restaurant famous for Oyako Don but when we got there the line was ridiculous and he was on a time crunch. We walked around this quaint little town and found this place called Suehiro. The menu looked good so in we go.
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| Gyu Don Lunch Set |
I ordered the beef bowl. Many restaurants including this one advertised using beef from Ohmi. Each bite of this beef rice bowl was pretty darn amazing. The beef was so soft and not because the restaurant cheaped out using fatty parts of leftover beef but truly because the quality of this beef is high. They were not stingy on how much beef they gave you either! The salad had a great dressing too....!!
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| Ordinary Looking Soft Cream Stand |
Nagahama is famous for glass making craft. There were many little shops to look at. Passing by this very ordinary soft cream stall after lunch...I saw the advertisement of using 12% raw cream. There was a line for it too. If there is a line it's always a good indication that it's worth trying
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| Cremes Soft Cream |
Holy cow. This creaminess of this soft serve is unbelievable!!! I have to admit it was a rather expensive soft cream. Most soft creams are around ¥350 but this one was a whopping ¥500. WORTH IT. Plus the cone isn't a regular sugar cone. It's like this buttery delicious shortbread cone that supplements this sorcery.
I parted ways with my friend and had an evening to myself. Since I was already at Kyoto Station I decided to hit a few places that's been on my list, namely Tsujiri Tea House. Their original branch is in Gion but they recently opened up a store in Isetan Department Store 6th floor.
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| Tsujiri Cafe Store Front |
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| Tsujiri Tokusen Parfait |
This is a fairly famous place that specializes in green tea products. Of course that means trying their supreme green tea parfait. The anatomy of this parfait as follows:
Green tea whipped cream
Green tea Castella cake
Chestnut
Green tea ice cream
Shirotama mochi
Green tea jelly
Green tea sauce
Cream
This parfait is to be taken seriously. Line can get a little long but nothing compared to a newly opened hipster restaurant in San Francisco. I like both Tsujiri and Nakamura Tokichi. Anyone should go try both places. For science.
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| Katsukara Store Front |
Of course after dessert, dinner comes afterwards. I had to revisit one of my favorite restaurants: Katsukara. It specializes in deep fried pork cutlets aka deep fried juicy crack aka yandere relationship with my arteries.
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| Various Sauces |
You're provided with different sauces:
Ponzu citron sauce for salad (top left)
Mustard (bottom left)
Koikuchi sauce (dark soy) (middle)
Tonkatsu sauce (right)
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| Fresh Sesame Seeds |
You're given seeds to grind and use it in combination with the sauce to dip your tonkatsu cutlet. Highly recommended to do this. It will bring you closer to enlightenment.
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| Tonkatsu Pork |
Look at this succulent specimen. Perfectly breaded. Not dry. No mind games or playing hard to get. This cutlet is here for you.
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| Set Meal |
Did I mention this set meal includes unlimited salad, rice, and soup?
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| Complimentary Pickles |
UNLIMITED KYOTO PICKLES.
This is located on the 11F of the JR station. It's so conveniently located how can you not go. Weekend lines are terrible though since this place is famous for a reason. By the way this meal was around ¥1800 aka less than $20.
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