Wawa's Ramblings

We thoroughly enjoyed the food in Kyoto. One of the highlights of our meals were in these little shops along the streets where the menu was in Japanese and all we needed to do was to point to the lovely window display outside. A bowl of hot steaming ramen cost about 700-900 yen and tasted so yummy. I gamely followed the tradition of slurping my noodles, just like the other customers and yes, it is perfectly okay to slurp loudly to show one's appreciation of the food.

Other times for quick bites, we would visit the supermarket's food halls to pick up bento sets and feast our eyes on the many visual delights of food, sweets and pretty packaging on display.

We splurged on a shabu shabu dinner (about SGD 110 per person) in Kacho restaurant in Westin Miyako after reading rave reviews on their shabu shabu. The Miyazaki beef was nicely marbled and extremely tender. An expensive meal, but well worth it.

I really savoured the Japanese breakfast of rice, pickles, grilled salmon and miso soup. The rice was so fragrant and soft, topped with little bits of seaweed. I could just eat the rice and pickles for all three meals!