This was
our second dinner at the
ryokan, on Saturday night. It was even better than Friday night's dinner, but we had lunch really late so I could barely eat anything. Saturday's dinner was various courses of
tai, or red snapper. The top left is
sashimi- there was tuna, shrimp, and red snapper. You dip the snapper in
ponzu sauce instead of soy. The top right was snapper
shabu-
shabu. Like with the beef, it comes raw with vegetables and you cook it in boiling broth at the table. Bottom right is just assorted appetizers- shrimp, grilled tofu,
mochi, and some other stuff I couldn't identify. The bottom left was really surprising- it's tofu topped with uni (sea urchin). This tofu has a different texture than I'm used to, really creamy almost like cream cheese. And the uni was great, very sweet.
The second course. The top is a piece of grilled marinated snapper. Then there was a soup but I can't remember what was in that. At the bottom is some kind of fish mousse wrapped in more fish. Not my favorite.
This was the best- stewed snapper head. I've been told that I should have eaten the eyeball because it's high in collagen, which is good for the skin. Yeah, I didn't eat the eyeball.
Ew. You can kind of see it in the picture- see the dark spot right about in the center? Anyway, I just ate the cheek meat. It was really good, probably the best thing we had in Kyoto. I was kicking myself the whole dinner for eating lunch at 3:00. Then came the rice course. It was a rice porridge made with crab. It was delicious but I only managed to eat about three bites. Gen was a trooper though!
This was our second dinner at the ryokan, on Saturday night. It was even better than Friday night's dinner, but we had lunch really late so I could barely eat anything. Saturday's dinner was various courses of tai, or red snapper. The top left is sashimi- there was tuna, shrimp, and red snapper. You dip the snapper in ponzu sauce instead of soy. The top right was snapper shabu-shabu. Like with the beef, it comes raw with vegetables and you cook it in boiling broth at the table. Bottom right is just assorted appetizers- shrimp, grilled tofu, mochi, and some other stuff I couldn't identify. The bottom left was really surprising- it's tofu topped with uni (sea urchin). This tofu has a different texture than I'm used to, really creamy almost like cream cheese. And the uni was great, very sweet.
The second course. The top is a piece of grilled marinated snapper. Then there was a soup but I can't remember what was in that. At the bottom is some kind of fish mousse wrapped in more fish. Not my favorite.
This was the best- stewed snapper head. I've been told that I should have eaten the eyeball because it's high in collagen, which is good for the skin. Yeah, I didn't eat the eyeball. Ew. You can kind of see it in the picture- see the dark spot right about in the center? Anyway, I just ate the cheek meat. It was really good, probably the best thing we had in Kyoto. I was kicking myself the whole dinner for eating lunch at 3:00. Then came the rice course. It was a rice porridge made with crab. It was delicious but I only managed to eat about three bites. Gen was a trooper though!
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