#Market Food

[alexin-wonderlust]

Day 10 - Japan Blog - 16 February 2024

We woke up super early to get reservations at a super popular restaurant (more on that tomorrow!!) but missed out… so we decided to eat our way through Kyoto, starting at Nishiki Market.

Ben doesn’t eat anything from the ocean and I am new to eating fish — I don’t enjoy the “fishy” taste, but I don’t mind salty and trying new things. I don’t like seaweed, and I don’t like big portions so Japan is a good place to try a lot of things!!

The Nishiki Market is so amazing. Its like a smorgasbord of everything to tempt the tastebuds I had two giant prawns, grilled on a hotplate and it was like $5. There was a sake shop selling 100Y sake, but it seemed a bit gimmicky -- we had some chicken and gyoza but nothing too exciting. We found a chilli shop with a cute lady working there -- she showed us this "numbing" spice, so of course Ben had to buy it :P We wanted to go and see the Nijo Castle, but missed out because even though they "close" at 4... they stop letting people in at 3 and we got there just after. So we found a supermarket and went a bit boonta in there.

The supermarkets in Japan are amazing. A whole section for sushi, and the most decadent, colourful, fresh sushi plate for only 690Y. Amazing! Then there's the cheeses, sweets, snacks, fresh fruit is super expensive but amazingly polished. We bought about $25 worth but came back with some good wasabi stuff, and a tube of "melon pan" spread. Amazing! I wanted to take Ben to where they brew the green Macha IPA beer -- so we got on a train to the other side of Fushimi Inari where there are a bunch of sake breweries/distilleries? Whatever they are. At the Kizakura Country Brewery we had a tasting paddle where the beer brewed with Sake Yeast (?) was the best. We had some snacks and then headed back to Osaka for our highly anticipated dinner at Salvatore’s...

Now, I’m not sure if I want to post about how poor the food was here. Our expectations were high because the last time we visited — it was exceptional. Like, think of the best Neapolitan Pizza you’ve had — that… was not the case this time. Then we got the bill and it was over $100AUD. Actually unhappy with all of it. Last time it was SO GOOD WE WENT BACK TWICE?! How could it get so bad 😭😭😭

Back to the hotel to drown my sorrows with an ice cream in the bath. 🧊

[marlowe-art]

farmers' market peaches

[julieterbang]

anyainpictures_

[suntann]

lol me when my gf gets turned into a god

[kizzer55555]

The power of hotdogs

Danny is running to Gotham to escape the GIW. As he’s running into an alleyway, he crashes into non other than condiment king who proceeds to attack and hits the GIW goons behind him. This absolutely terrifies them due to the fact that their prestigious white clothes will be stained. The fact that he has people running in terror gives Condiment king a giddy feeling so he proceeds to chase them around Gotham.

Thus starts Danny’s constant exploits of running to condiment king when he’s being chased and the rogue scarring the living daylights out of the GIW. They develop nightmares and Condiment king starts developing new concoctions that will specifically stain clothes and never come out. Mwa ha ha!

Eventually, Danny gets adopted by the rogue and becomes his sidekick. Now, when people learned that condiment king got a new sidekick, they laughed. Who in their right mind would want to mentor under him. They believed that this was some poor sob who was down on their luck and truly desperate. That or some weirdo like the ‘king’ himself.

But they didn’t understand.

They didn’t understand that they should never have let Danny Fenton (known as Phantom) become Condiment King’s sidekick.

Danny knows how to animate hotdogs and other foods to create an army. Danny knows intimately about the secret nasty burger sauce that is capable of powerful explosions of you heat it up. Danny has knowledge in the usage and how to build various weaponry designed to shoot or even be powered by green sludge (which can easily be replaced by ketchup, mustard, or relish).

And he hasn’t even shown Gotham his power-set yet. No one knows why he calls himself phantom. For all they know, he’s just a normal (terrifying) human.

Everyone blames the GIW for this mess.

[triflingthing]

vegetables are vegetabling

[earththings]

[firesidecottage]

Summer Market

[dapper-lil-arts]

Was makin a muscle study for fun and it wound up being that sunset shimmer anthro design I made because I'm delusional. good times. And of course I got carried away and didn't stop there

Twilight is ready.

[banhbotloc]

[ID: first, a cutting board with zucchini flowers, tiny zucchini, and enoki mushrooms on it. second, zucchini flowers in a bowl of tempura batter. third, fried tempura zucchini flowers on a plate. lastly, an enoki mushroom omelet (with enoki mushrooms arranged and frizzled around the edges, and egg in the center, looking a bit like a flower or sunburst). end ID]

tempura + farmer's market zucchini flowers + funky mushrooms = song of the summer

[jeeklaart]

doing some shopping 🍅🥖

( find me here )

[happyheidi]

[marlowe-art]

tomatoes on display

[julieterbang]

[rherlotshadow]

Market. Vietnam.

[shiftythrifting]

My brother and I found this knife/brass knuckles combo with spikes at a flea market for the low low price of $25. This is the knife I would bring to a gunfight.

We also found this jar of jellybeans suspended in liquid. It took us way too long to realize it was a candle and not just. Y'know. Jellybeans suspended in liquid.