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| We left the restaurant around 10pm. Peter (who was flying to London in the morning) went home to pack, we walked back to our hotel, through the park by the seafront. | |
They have these nice "firework" lights in the park.
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View from our hotel room window (no large version) 
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6 November: Catch a Shinkansen back home around lunchtime. Have the hairy crab left over from a couple of days ago for a late afternoon snack. This is what's left of his legs and claws.
Then our friend Akiko from Tokyo, who's in Nagoya for a conference this weekend, rings, and we set off to meet her. After checking out a few places, we settle for an izakaya in Fushimi. At the entrance of the restaurant, we see a poster for frozen sake - something I'd recently read about on the Net and been curious about, so we order it straight away. The sake comes in half-liquid/half-frozen (sorbet-like) state, and it's delicious, especially on a hot day like this. (In the photo: UsaKousa are eating hijiki, and the dish on the left is aubergine & small green peppers.) |
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Horse mackrel sashimi (before)... |
...and after. |
Fish (sillaginoid?) tempura with green tea flavoured batter, with yuzu and green-tea salt. |
You can get green tea ice cream everywhere, but this is the first time we've had roasted tea flavoured ice cream! It really tasted of roasted tea, it was so refreshing and delicious that we've shared 3 portions between us. (As for sake, we've had 10 glasses between us ;-) |