11 November 2018
The healthy option
Eating soup and looking at flowers in Fukuoka at night
No ramen tonight, time to get some health into me. Actually I have been eating broccoli and toast for breakfast, as my hotel comes with breakfast. Nearly everything on offer for breakfast has been in a fryer or is sausage related, which leaves broccoli and toast. Even the other breakfast salad options appear to be floating in cream based salad dressing. Anyway, enough about my breakfast, now for my dinner!
As I mentioned in Tokyo when I went to Roppongi and had a clone of Tokyo Soup Stock, I like Tokyo Soup Stock. So now that I am not in Tokyo, I had Tokyo Soup Stock, in Fukuoka. Perhaps when I got back to Tokyo I will have Tokyo Soup Stock in Tokyo, which is bound to send their stocks soaring, they are listed on the Tokyo stock exchange.
Anyway, as always I had the two soup combo as you shall see.
I also did a last lap of Fukuoka, taking in both Hakata, Tenjin and all the shrines in between. I will probably do another last lap tomorrow morning before taking the 2 hour train ride to Nagasaki.
Not many pics tonight!
Such truth in advertising!
Here we have the first of many shrines this evening, I did not photograph them all. The sky is still a little bit blue.
This streets shop owners association voted to approve a local illumination. This is what they got. 3 pieces of mildly illuminated plastic. Merry Christmas.
Its my dinner as mentioned above. One of the soups is minestrone, the other I am not sure of, but it has mushrooms and I do not think its miso.
Here we have the ever mysterious multi level car parking building. You hand your car over to some dude who then arranges for it to be swallowed by a giant machine. They then get shuffled around inside its metal stomach for hours before you hand in your ticket and it gets regurgitated out again.
Another darkened shrine. This one was a Shinto Shrine, I saw a sign. No one really knows what Shinto is, an excuse to hold expensive real estate in Japanese cities.
The department stores of Tenjin. Fukuoka seems to have very wide spacious streets compared to most other areas of Japan.
This restaurant had a lot of steam and or smoke coming out of it, fogging up the neon. I decided it was a good photo to mess about with for a while to keep myself entertained.
If you are looking for some weekend work, there are plenty of job openings in the move this pole holding a sign from side to side while screaming your lungs out on a street corner business.
Its the final YATAI! I tried to go to one for dinner last night, but they all seemed to only be selling skewers of meat. Not really a meal in my opinion, more something you eat before or after being drunk. Anyway, they make for good photos, I get to include people in my photos without causing great offence. I dont care if I cause offence. People should stop being offended.
And tonights final photo, some flowers! There are flowers everywhere here, all up and down the streets, in the shops, in the tunnels, on the trains. My hotel room also has some potted color.