My honey friend Kayoko, invited us to Ukai-Toriyama for tiffin a few weeks ago. The eating seat is located inward a beautiful, mountainous expanse of Japan, non besides far from our home.
The grounds were exceptionally beautiful, of course. One of the many things I love almost Japan.
Love the vermillion bridges, too!
The eating seat consisted of many dissimilar soul cottages for dining. These cottages were all traditional Japanese buildings relocated hither from to a greater extent than or less the country.
You ever accept off yours shoes.
The within of the cottage was beautiful. Luckily for me though, the flooring to a greater extent than or less the tabular array was cutting out thus at that topographic point was a identify to set your legs. It's hard for us American's to sit down on the flooring for really long!
Right exterior of our cottage, nosotros could hither the delightful audio of this pocket-sized waterfall. It was such a relaxing environment.
It is really mutual to detect a scroll too a bloom organization depicting the flavour inward a traditional Japanese room.
This eating seat served kaiseki, or a traditional Japanese meal, consisting of several courses over several hours. Seasonal ingredients are ever used, too y'all gild the repast equally a set.
The girls had a kids meal, which looked great! Fried karage (chicken nuggets), baked potato, omelette, too fruit.
Balance too presentation are a big business office of Japanese cuisine.
Several soups are usually included, this was a wonderful duck soup. The squeamish affair almost ordering the develop is that it forces me to displace things I wouldn't usually order.
In the meantime, they were heating some coals correct on our tabular array for the principal course, the yakitori, or grilled chicken.
I idea the initial kids repast was enough of food, but too then they brought out an additional handbasket of nutrient to grill. There were chicken skewers, meatballs too quail eggs too the girls loved all of it.
For the adults, a lovely platter of chicken, too veggies to grill.
I simply love Kayoko to pieces. She is non entirely a corking friend, but also our trip the lite fantastic toe teacher. She teaches us thus much almost Japanese culture.
After grilling the chicken, nosotros dipped it inward a fabulous sauce too allow it hold grilling a few to a greater extent than minutes.
The chicken was out of this world! Absolutely fabulous!
I was feeling really full, at this point, but out came our side past times side course. Miso soup is ever a given, equally is rice too some form of pickled veggie. The rice had a glue made out of dashi (fish stock) too sugariness murphy on top, this wasn't my favorite.
The ladies serving us were amazing. They knelt downward alongside the trays to serve, too then gathered the dishes too stood dorsum upwardly from a crouched position. Such a workout!
The beauty of a Japanese garden cannot last described.
And concluding but non least, dessert. This was almost similar a fruity sorbet, almost the size of a golf game ball. Just a touching on of something sugariness afterwards the meal.
After the repast nosotros wandered the gardens a bit.
Thank y'all Kayoko-san, for a wonderful afternoon!
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