Kyoto Calling : A Pictorial
Oct 2007 : After the bright lights and extravagance of Tokyo, a side trip on the shinkansen to Kyoto yielded a quieter, more reflective city; an old world jostling with the new. Here, with Seamus, we had our most memorable meal, at Kikunoi. Amongst some of the many memorable dishes : mushroom tea served from a teapot with a squeeze of lime, a soothing cup of kyobancha, brown sugar and crysanthemum jelly eaten with a pointy skewer, and my first taste of Ayu (sweetfish; first presented to us fresh and flipping around in a shallow basket, then their bellies split before being grilled).
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