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Japan Festival in MelbourneSunday 18th May 2008 – Box Hill Town Hall & Tafehttp://www.jcv.org.au/japanfestival/ I’ll take a little break from my Japan posts to report on…er…the Melbourne Japan Festival. Held last Sunday at the Box Hill Town Hall and TAFE, it is an annual celebration of all things Japanese. Amidst displays of bonsai, [...] Written by mellie on May 19th, 2008 | Tags: festivals, Japanese |  8 comments |  Print This Post |  Email This Post1-50-30, Sowamachi, Takayama-shi, Gifu-kenWebsite http://hida-yado.net/yado/sosuke/english.htm Here are the pics and thoughts from our last dinner at Sosuke – what a way to go out! Crisp vegetable tempura; shitake, yam, shiso, kabocha (pumpkin) and potato. A little patty cake foil contained a seasoned salt, which I liberally sprinkled over my veggies. The shiso especially was [...] Written by mellie on May 18th, 2008 | Tags: Japan, ryokan, Sosuke, Takayama | 2 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post1-50-30, Sowamachi, Takayama-shi, Gifu-kenWebsite http://hida-yado.net/yado/sosuke/english.htm
Dinner on the second night was just as fantastic as the first. This local river fish had been smoked and salted, and I just about picked the bones clean it was so moreish (we had seen these cooking on a walk around the market earlier that [...] Written by mellie on May 17th, 2008 | Tags: Japan, ryokan, Sosuke, Takayama |  Leave a comment | Print This Post | Email This Post1-50-30, Sowamachi, Takayama-shi, Gifu-kenWebsite http://hida-yado.net/yado/sosuke/english.htm Just like the breakfasts written about previously, the dinners at Sosuke Minshuku were just as impressive. The theme of traditional home style dining prevailed, and we were able to sample further specialities of the region including Hida beef and yomogi udon. We were also treated to a little something [...] Written by mellie on May 14th, 2008 | Tags: Japan, ryokan, Sosuke, Takayama | One comment | Print This Post | Email This Post1-50-30, Sowamachi, Takayama-shi, Gifu-kenWebsite http://hida-yado.net/yado/sosuke/english.htm We stayed at the most wonderful minshuku (family run guest house) in Takayama called Sosuke. Part of what made it so wonderful was the food; traditional Japanese breakfasts and dinners served in Sosuke’s tatami‘d dining room. I’ll blog the dinners shortly, but following are three breakfasts we had the [...] Written by mellie on May 12th, 2008 | Tags: breakfast, Japan, ryokan, Sosuke, Takayama | 6 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post |
  
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