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Takayama: Sosuke Dinner (night three)

1-50-30, 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 [...]

Takayama: Sosuke Dinner (night two)

1-50-30, 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 [...]

Takayama: Sosuke Dinner (night one)

1-50-30, 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 [...]

Takayama: Sosuke Minshuku – Breakfasts

1-50-30, 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 [...]

Kani Doraku Honten

1-6-18 Dotombori Chuo-ku 6211 8975 http://www.douraku.co.jp/kansai/shop/honten.html (Japanese only) Osaka’s Dotombori area is full of giant neon billboards, many of which advertise a restaurant’s particular specialisation. There are giant blowfish (for fugu) and giant octopus (for takoyaki). And of course, there has to be a giant mechanical crab, glaringly proclaiming the bill of fare of [...]

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