18 April 2025
Japan beats Hong Kong at Korea
Another lap of Kumamoto city centre
Last night in Kumamoto, I decided to celebrate by having Korean food.
People with developed attention spans may remember about 10 days ago I had bibimbap in Hong Kong. It was a large filling serve, but bland. Tonight I decided to have the same in Japan, to give me words to fill this area of this webpage with. The Japanese have defeated the Hong Kongese at bibimbap.
In other news, the bar areas were doing great business on a Friday night, I saw a lot of really bad driving which strongly suggested people had already been at the bars for a while. Random swerving in lane ways that are already not wide enough for cars, and are full of pedestrians is a bad recipe.
Tomorrow I go to Fukuoka, I have been there before, twice. It is a comparatively much larger city.
I love the sunset street photos.
For no known reason, a lot of Kumamoto streets are named after American cities. It is unclear if this is the official street name or not.
Unfortunately it is not possible due to tight streets to get a full photo of the exterior of this place, it is like a large rusty observatory with giant sliding metal doors.
The inside of it has a cake shop, a florist, and not much else. Very strange. The staircases seemingly go to nowhere.
Another random street view at dusk.
I had observed this shop front a couple of times from over the road. It is kind of on it's own away from any other shops, so I went over to investigate. Inside is a lot of tiny little eating places, all selling things on sticks.
Tonight's bar for 6 people that is a rusty shipping container in a car park.
And here is my bibimbap. Very good quality.
The train journey to Fukuoka tomorrow takes 45 minutes. I will be too early to check in when I get there.