Our hotel also provides complimentary breakfast - assortment of breads, juices, coffee and tea.
Great selection of breads - they even provide you a toaster to warm up the bread. Jam, peanut butter, butter are also provided. My favourite is the Mentaiko mayonnaise, goes best with warm toasted bread.
Juices, milk and cereal is also available.
The hotel lobby, also the venue for breakfast.
As it was a rainy day, we decided to walk around the hotel area to explore Fukuoka. First stop was Yanagibashi market (柳橋連合市場), a covered street selling mostly fresh seafood produce.
It was quite late when we arrived, luckily some shops are still open.
Kamaboko (蒲鉾) shop. Kamaboko is a kind of steamed fish paste, using various types of fish or seafood products.
Cute cartoon characters made from kamaboko. Love the An-pan-man face.
Besides steamed fish paste, they also sell the deep fried version, something like a kamaboko croquette.
I bought the freshly fried fish croquette - only 50yen.
Another Kamaboko shop.
Fresh prawns and squid.. look at the glister of the prawns.. must taste very nice.
Variety of fish heads, salmon parts and fins. Super cheap too! so much for only 200yen. Mum would love the fish heads and salmon fins for stew and fry.
Look at the size of the clam (sea hum). It's as big as the size of a hand palm.
This store sells seafood meant for sashimi use.
More fishes anyone?
This weird white fluffy stuff is actually the tail of a whale ? (鯨尾羽) according to websites, you can eat it just like that, and it's a low calorie, high collagen food. You can also serve it in a salad dish as well.
Dried fish is also available in the market.
This is dried bamboo shoot.. the jagged shape gives me the creeps though
From Yanagibashi market, we walked along the river to reach Minoshima shopping street (美野島商店街). It's an old shopping street, and the stalls are mostly managed by old folks.
There was some media folks interviewing the old lady of the chicken shop.
Lunch was Hakata ramen at ZO-SUN. Zo stands for elephant in Japanese, the reason for the elephant picture in the shopfront. Zo also stands for creation in Japanese (創).
Kuro zo (黒創 or black creation) is the specialty of ZO-SUN.
It's a small shop which can accommodate approximately 16+ seats.
Menu with a variety of ramen, toppings, side dishes and drinks.
This is the kuro-zo ramen (黒創ラーメン, 630yen). The soup is made from pork bones, and kuro-zo ramen has a dense soup base.
We also ordered the shiro-zo ramen (白創ラーメン, 550yen) or white creation ramen. The soup is also made from pork bones, but much lighter than kuro-zo.
Even in a small ramen shop, you can keep your unfinished shochu here.
After lunch, we continued with our stroll along Minoshima shopping street. There was a store selling vegetables, call me aunty or what.. I love shopping for fresh produce in Japan, sometimes you can get very cheap vegetables, like this 105 yen daikon.
Can you believe it, the white cabbage only costs 50yen? you can never get this price in Singapore.
Last dinner in Fukuoka was at an izakaya Shirokiya (白木屋) as they have all-you-can-drink at 1000yen per person. This includes shochu, cocktails, beer, sours, wine, softdrink, juices and tea. very worth the 100yen since an ala-carte drink already costs about 300yen. still cheap for alcohol as compared to Japan.
Started with Suntory Malts beer...
Some brand of shochu with soda and lemon...
More shochu and umeshu as well... I shan't continue with the list...
We ordered the usual foods... salad, yakitori, tori-karage, tonpeiyaki... my companion was more interested in the alcohol though... hope he can wake up in time tomorrow morning to catch our flight!
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