This year my Valentine’s Day sweet was sweet potato shochu filled chocolate ganache!
Regular readers of KyotoFoodie may recall that I was given some delightful fruit vinegar bonbons last Valentine’s Day from Takashimaya. I don’t have a valentine this year so I bought my own. I was encouraged to skip Takashimaya’s Valentine’s Day chocolate exhibition and instead visit the other major ...
In 2009 we brought you authentic Kyoto osechi New Year's cuisine and while Japanese style is the norm there are some restaurants that do Western, Chinese or fusion-type osechi. I had a chance to meet Chef Shinzo Okumura of Restaurant Okumura who is said to have invented 'French Kaiseki' and talk with him about his unique French osechi cuisine.
Chef Okumura ...
Wagashi: Kyoto Tsuruya Keiran Somen 京都鶴屋 鶏卵素麺 鶴寿庵
For this unusual wagashi just two ingredients; sugar and egg yolk, and some ancient Portuguese technique are needed to make Keiran Somen, literally 'chicken egg angel hair noodles'.
Falafel Garden ファラフェルガーデン
In Kyoto and looking for a quick and cheap (by Kyoto standards) bite to eat that isn't Japanese or looking for a veggie meal?
Falafel Garden, is good, though not gourmet, not the kind of Middle Eastern food you could probably find back home.
Falafel Garden is located just to the east of Demachiyanagi Station. If you are on the ...
