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Lennon – my hide out

e-bantou — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:31:15 +0000

YEBISU draft beer - one of the best Japanese beer

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- Extracted article from last year-

My hide-out in Kanazawa

It is a little tiny place on narrow side street of Higasiyama Teahouse area.
People usually don’t realize it because it dose not show big sign.
Even if people realize it, they would surely hesitate to enter it.
It has some kind of atmosphere to prevent people from entering.
But once you enter the inside, you feel cozy and relax and stay there longer than you expect.
It is really an unusual place.
I drink beer there – the best beer in Kanazawa.
I eat special egg called “Dashimaki”-the best “Dashimaki” in Kanazawa.

I sometimes have Tohfu dish called “Yudohfu”-the best of best.
Fish is always very fresh.
Tempura is very good.
Everything is very fine and comes with LOVE!
I don’t tell you the name of place.
That’s because it is my hide-out!

Recommended night snack or meal in Katamachi area

admin2 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:23:05 +0000

According to Kikunoya Ryokan in Kanazawa, there is a unique place called “Yaho”.
“Yaho” is not a name of anything, but people just call that Japanese light meal bar “Yaho”.

That’s because the master of that bar only speaks “Yaho”.
“Yaho” itself doesn’t mean anything.
No matter what words you speak to him, he only says “Yaho”.
“Yaho” is the only word people say there.
Incredible, right?

So if you are a foreigner and don’t speak any Japanese just go there and say “Yaho”.

“Yaho” mainly serves “ochazuke” which is a simple but traditional Japanese dish made by pouring green tea, dashi, or hot water over cooked rice roughly.

“Yaho” opens around 10pm.

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Ishiguro, the Kappou (culinary art)

e-bantou — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:07:50 +0000

Ishiguro is my #2 hide-out that I wrote here couple of days ago.
I went there again for lunch just now.
I did not speak even single word there as usual as I wrote here.
Today’s only one kind lunch box was grilled flatfish and boiled eggplant with some beef and some vinegared sea foods.
It comes of course with rice and miso soup.
Miso soup is a simple stuff and everywhere you can have but you can really tell the level of restaurant from it.
The master of Ishiguro has a serious strict face always.
His wife is very sweet and tender and polite which makes their customers very relax.
Ishiguro is a very unusual restaurant, because very few people know it in spite of their high level culinary art.
Even if I google it with many possible key words, it hardly shows up anything.
I am sure they don’t want to be famous or popular.
But they are very famous and popular in me and I am proud of it.

“TAKOYAKI” Octopus Dumpling in Kanazawa

e-bantou — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:05:57 +0000

I am not that crazy about “Takoyaki”, octopus dumpling, but most of Japanese people love it so that you can find a “Takoyaki” shop quite a few in town.
The “Takoyaki” shop I like most is called “Gindako” in the basement of M’ZA department store in Musashi area.
I sometimes buy “Takoyaki” there and bring it back to my place and eat it with hot green tea or cold beer. It costs about 500 yen for one plate that has about 10 dumplings.
One thing you have to be careful when you buy “Takoyaki” is that they might ask you many questions such as if you want mayonnaise or hot spicy source or green laver and so on. Sometimes it is annoying me!

My another hide-out in Kanazawa

e-bantou — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:04:44 +0000

It is a “kappou” (Japanese style restaurant) near Ohmicho fish market.

I often go there for lunch.

It does not show a sign that they are open, so first-time customers are almost impossible to come in.

Uniqueness of this restaurant is that you don’t have to speak even one word in the restaurant.

You enter, sit on one of the chairs facing long counter table, drink a tea that lady serves you and then after for a while your lunch box is served in front of you.

In fact, they have only one kind of lunch and nobody knows what it is until it is brought to you.

That’s why I said you don’t have to speak even one word.

The name of kappou is Ishiguro. It’s located back side of Hokkoku Bank main office.