10 November 2024
2 photos of my dinner
Okonomiyaki in Kanazawa
Tonight I went back to the station area and was surprised that there was no line to have Okonomiyaki, so I had it. It was great.
On the way there I walked a bit of a loop around the vicinity and noticed a lot of places closed on Sunday night. Then I went into the station proper and noticed about a million people trying to get home from coming here especially to view the garden on the weekend. At least that is what I shall assume.
Tomorrow I go to Fukui. I have not been there before. Without being encumbered by baggage I could probably walk there in a day, instead I will take the bullet train for a grand total of 35 minutes. Then I will be immediately greeted by dinosaurs.
Some people will be really excited by this. In Australia, one of the more exciting things entire extended families can do is go and hang out at Chemist Warehouse. Well here in Japan the equivalent is even larger, and comes with a car parking.
Here is tonight's moody looking dark scary restaurant in a dark back street. It is ominously named 13.
Attached to the station is a large souvenir selling area. It actually seems quite nice.
And now for my dinner, okonomiyaki, Hiroshima style (with noodles). Look at the great job I did assembling it? OK I did not really assemble it, and there was a metal hoop involved.
Encased within is pork, prawns, squid, cabbage, pickled ginger, noodles, dried fish flakes and seaweed sprinkles on top of the sweet sauce. I do not add the mayonnaise. This has never really caught on in Australia, I really only know where there is one proper grill it yourself and potentially burn yourself restaurant in all of Melbourne.
The exhibition and over zealous security guard is gone from the station square underground square area. But that means I got to take my photo of vast areas of nothingness.
Somehow I will turn tomorrow's 35 minute train journey into a full day of travel. There will not be many photos, but there will be photos of a new hotel.