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  • in reply to: Cherry Blossoms #4599
    miwa
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    Hello,Lotus, You will still be able to enjoy Cherry Blossoms in mid April, because some of those best Cherry Blossom sight’s trees are famous for blooming late. Ninna-ji Temple and Nakaragi no michi near Kyoto botanical garden are my favorite spot.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninna-ji

    You can also check Cherry Blossom information from below.

    http://kaiwai.city.kyoto.jp/raku/modules/information_en/index.php/sakuradayori_en.html

    Please enjoy Spring in Japan!

    in reply to: Lunch near Houkyouji and Nishijin-ori Kaikan #4587
    miwa
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    Hello and welcome to this forum!

    There is a nice and traditional shinise chicken restaurant, called Toriiwaro (鳥岩楼), dinner can be expensive, but they serve very nice oyako donburi for 840 yen, it is a bit East, probably less than 10 minutes from Horikawa street. I think 2 hours for the lunch between the 2 places will be more than enough to walk to Toriiwaro and back and have leisurely lunch.

    Please enjoy!

    西陣・鳥岩楼 Toriiwarou

    http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~mao_utty/toriiwa/

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    Kyoto-shi Kamigyo-ku Gotsuji-dori Chiekoin Nishi-iru Minami-gawa

    tel 075-441-4004

    Closed on Thursdays

    西陣・鳥岩楼

    京都市上京区五辻通智恵光院西入南側  

    tel(075)441-4004 FAX(075)441-4500  

    営業時間 昼12時~21時まで 定休日 毎週木曜日

    in reply to: Best Local/Affordable eats close to Kyoto Station? #4572
    miwa
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    Please try Takaraya ramen shop in Ramen-koji on Kyoto Station Building 10th floor.

    http://www.kyoto-ramen-koji.com/

    Their Toro-niku ramen is very good.

    はーべすと(Harvest) in Porta underground market street is nice too. All you can eat Japanese style household food for 1700 to 2100yen including drink and desert. Very good variety of food and very popular for locals.

    Isetan department store (connected to JR Kyoto Station) has great food court. If you are staying around that area, It will be fun to buy take away food from Isetan and try many kinds of food at your hotel or top space of the station building.

    I am still thinking for somewhere else,, but there is not very good food restaurant around the area.

    in reply to: Good receipe for Ramen #4571
    miwa
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    I was translating tonkotsu soup recipe, but it was too too complicated and takes so long time, so I found more realistic soy sauce and chicken base one, from somebody’s blog that has ramen store in Osaka.

    http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~taronaniwa/ramen.html

    serve 1 (please calculate the amount according to serving people)

    1000 cc (1L) water

    chicken bones/carcass (1/2 whole bird)

    carrot (1/4)

    onion (1/4)

    dried sardine (niboshi, remove head and gut area) 10g

    leek 10 cm

    ginger 5 g

    garlic 1/2 clove

    soy sauce 1 tablespoon

    sake one teaspoon

    sugar one teaspoon

    salt one teaspoon

    black pepper 1/4 teaspoon

    lard as you like

    sesame oil as you like

    how to make

    1) rinse chicken bones and get rid of yucky blood and guts

    2) cut onion and carrot in quarter.

    3) break ginger, leek and garlic with side of knife.

    4) cook chicken bones with high heat and reduce heat when started boiling.

    keep taking aku out. see the following article if you don’t know what aku-tori is:

    http://kyotofoodie.com/learning-to-make-dashi-at-honke-owariya/

    5) add carrot, onion, leek,ginger and garlic at the heat in that ingredients dance around in the soup, for 1.5 hours and add dried sardine.

    6) when soup reduced down to half, turn off heat.(It takes about 2 hours)

    7) take bones out and filter the soup and bring back to the same pot.

    8 )add soy sauce, sake, sugar, salt, and pepper and lard and sesame oil

    You should be able to make a large amount and freeze for future use.

    in reply to: Good receipe for Ramen #4569
    miwa
    Member

    Wow you are from Panama! OK, there are three types of Ramen, tonkotsu (pig bones), shoyu (soy sauce), and miso.

    To make soup, you need chicken bones, too. Which type of ramen you would like to make? Tonkotsu is the most popular in Japan, I think. Can you get pig bones?

    in reply to: How to season a Japanese donabe earthenware pot #4557
    miwa
    Member

    Mora,

    Sorry, gohan (cooked rice) and kome (uncooked) both translate to rice in English. The explanation sheet from the maker is a little unclear, but I should have realized. So, yes, used COOKED rice to start with. It will become porridge (okayu) very quickly.

    I called the maker on the telephone and it is definitely supposed to be cooked.

    Sorry to be unclear. Please enjoy your donabe!

    Miwa

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