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Hello!

You should be able to find porter bags at many places. The biggest collection would be KURA CHIKA Kyoto shop, on the 2nd floor in Fujii Daimaru department store. It is where Teramachi st. and Shijo st. meet.

http://www.frontstyle.com/shopsearch/shop_detail.php?shopid=S_001639

I remember seeing their bags at Takashimaya department store, and at LOFT(shopping building).

They are all close together, so you can easily go the three on foot.

This one is very pretty.

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/sara-cera/s0005660/

from rakuten online store……

I see!

I haven’t heard of this brand, but I read through the info and it sounded very nice. This is something you eat with rice. You can chop them into fine pieces and mix with cucumber slices as well, but it is best to eat with rice.

It is seaweed, that had been cooked with soy sauce and sugar and sake and mirin, and then dried. It is salty. The product has got some kind of governmental prize twice, so that the quality is promised, I think.

Why don’t you give it a try?

Hello, I am sorry for not replying sooner.

I think the lacquerware store you are talking about is Shikki no Asobe store.(漆器のアソベ). The store used to be facing Shijo street, but they have MOVED to Shijo Higashinotoin-sagaru, which is south from Shijo-street X Higashinotoin-street crossing.

They are still doing business, of course; it is a really popular shinise store, that has started in 1807.

〒600-8091 京都市下京区東洞院通四条下ル元悪王子47-5

075-344-5333

10:00〜19:00

closed on Wednesdays

Hello, I found a good URL that introduces seasonal food.

http://www.nice-body.jp/diet/syokuzai/index.html

Some of those food are available all year now, but they taste really different in the right season.

Those autumn food below are typically autumn food; it is difficult to get year around.

chestnuts, saury, gingko nuts, matsutake mushroom and nashi pear……

Hello,

Yuba

Komameya Yuba

I like Komameya Yuba restaurant, their yuba donburi is very good. They have another branch in the north side of Daimaru department store. I have tried 3,000 yen course and 5,000 yen course. 3,000 yen was so-so and 5,000 yen course was really good.

http://kyotofoodie.com/komameya-yuba-ryori-lunch/

http://www.ueda-yuba.co.jp/

Yubasen

I also like Yubasen, on Gojo-zaka street, which is very near Kiyomizu temple. You can eat very very fresh yuba for reasonable price. You can see how they are made, and by appointments, you can even experience to make yourself.

http://gojo.yubasen.co.jp/access/index.html

http://gojo.yubasen.co.jp/menu/index.html

Seike

If you would like to enjoy Yuba being served as Kaiseki food, Seike is a good place to go. Nishijin branch, which I haven’t been there, seems to have very good Nishijin machiya-stlye building and atmosphere, It is south of Imadegawa street and Omiya street intersection. Lunch starts from 2,800 yen and dinner starts from 7,350 yen. Yuba is not so expensive to make, so I think that you could be paying much for the atmosphere too.

http://www.dicube.co.jp/seike/info20/index.html

We are sorry that we did not reply soon enough! I hope you found something nice to make your hamentaschen in Japan.

I am afraid that I don’t actually know anywhere you can buy hand made koshian….. There are many confectionary stores in Kyoto, but I can not think of anywhere they sell koshian itself.

My favorite anko is from Gozasoro, Obanyaki shop.

http://www.gozasoro.co.jp/goods/index.html

You can get them from Takashimaya and Isetan department store food court. They sell a pack of tsubu-an, but not koshi-an.

If you have a chance, please try. They are only 80 yen and really yummy!