Torta di compleanno!

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E’ incredibile quanto poco tempo si abbia, in determinati momenti dell’anno si abbia! In questi giorni ho la sensazione che le giornate non abbiano abbastanza ore, eppure non faccio altro che vivere 🙂

Ho ricominciato ad andare a cavallo, e le lezioni sono state un gran divertimento (probabilmente più per la maestra che per me, la mia amica o le mie gambe 😉 ), continuo a preparare dolci, ma il Natale si avvicina e iniziano i preparativi. E la settimana scorsa è stato il compleanno di Sergente Pranzo! Abbiamo festeggiato in grande stile e soprattutto, ho preparato una torta semplicissima ma molto apprezzata soprattutto dai fan delle arance. La ricetta è di Dan Lepard, maestro indiscusso del pane ma che, come magari saprete, ha anche un libro di dolci tratto dai suoi articoli sul Guardian. Ho provato la ricetta qualche mese fa ed è andata direttamente tra i preferiti del nostro beneamato Sergente. E anche io, pur non essendo troppo fanatica dei sapori agrumati, devo dire che questa semplice ed effettiva torta è veramente un piacere da mangiare 🙂


Torta all'Arancio di Dan Lepard


Ingredienti


* 150 g di farina
* 175 g di zucchero
* 2 cucchiaini di lievito per dolci
* 50 g di cocco grattuggiato 
* 175 g di burro 
*  la scorza di due arance
* 3 uova
* 75 ml di liquore all’arancia, come Cointreau o Grand Marnier 
Per la glassa
* La scorza di un arancia
* 125 g di zucchero a velo
* 2 cucchiai di succo d’arancia (circa)
Per cuocere
2 tortiere da 18 cm (o simile 🙂 )

Preparazione


1. Foderiamo le due tortiere con carta da forno, e accendiamo il forno a 180 gradi, o 160 se ventilato.
2. In una ciotola, mettiamo il burro, la scorza d’arancio e lo zucchero, e mescoliamo bene con una frusta, a mano o elettrica, fino ad ottenere un composto chiaro e spumoso.
3. Aggiungiamo il cocco e mescoliamo.
4. Aggiungiamo le uova, una ad una, pulendo bene le pareti della ciotola dopo ogni aggiunta.
5. Setacciamo una metà circa della farina e del lievito su questo composto e mescoliamo. Aggiungiamo poi il liquore, mescoliamo e aggiungiamo il resto della farina setacciata. Questa la aggiungiamo senza aiuto della frustra, a mano e con l’aiuto di una spatola, utilizzando movimenti avvolgenti (un po’ come se stessimo aggiungendo il bianco dell’uovo montato a una mousse, tanto per capirci).
6. Dividiamo il composto nei due stampi e inforniamo per 25-30 minuti, o fino a quando all’inserire uno stuzzicadenti nelle torte, questo rimane pulito.
7. Una volta pronte, lasciamo raffreddare le torte nei loro contenitori e poi le rimuoviamo e rimuoviamo la carta forno.
8. Prepariamo la glassa: semplicemente mescoliamo lo zucchero a velo con il succo d’arancia e la scorza. Se preferite, potete aggiungere un po’ di succo in piu’ se volete ottenere una glassa più liquida.
9. Assembliamo la torta, spalmando parte della glassa tra le due torte a parte sopra. Decoriamo a piacere. 

Buon compleanno Sergente Pranzo<3


PS: Gli spicchi d’arancio che trovate sulla torta sono Terry’s Chocolate Orange, che non penso si trovi in Italia… Sanno davvero di arancia 😀

Japan, the food experience – 5 – Osaka Part I

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I missed you so much, blog of mine!

These weeks have been incredibly busy and I couldn’t find time to actually sit down and keep on writing… But I am back bitches!

Where were we then… On the train from Nagasaki (underwhelming at first, turned out to be a lovely place) to Osaka, where we were going to stay for 6 nights. 6 nights in the same place! A miracle. For this very reason, we will split Osaka in 2 parts 🙂

We get to Osaka on the Shinkansen, and at the station we see Japanese people taking picture of what looked like another Shinkansen, this one yellow. Turns out, it was a Doctor Yellow (more of this on the blog special about the best thing in the world, trains). When we reach the station close to our AirBnb, we discover the reason why our host, Akito, wanted to know exactly our time of arrival… He comes to pick us up at the train station! Never in my life has that happened to me, particularly when my accommodation is an AirBnb… All the better then. Apart from that scary moment when we all think “We just jumped in the car with this dude who could bring us somewhere, drug us and then sell our organs”, swiftly replaced by the comforting knowledge that we are, after all, in Japan, all goes splendidly and soon we are leaving the suitcases in the apartment to head for the centre.

Here, we have our first 551 Horai baos, outside Osaka station, while people look at us with what can be described only as deep envy (I even see a woman mimicking the Italian gesture of “delicious”, looking at us laughing). This is a Kansai-only chain, and they produce a limited amount of Chinese-style food and their most sold product are the baos, which they make one by one (a girl working at one of the stalls actually stopped to show me how she made the bao, slowly, so I could see the whole process, making me a very happy girl indeed).

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Very satisfied from the lunch, we decide to have a little dessert, and what better than an animal shaped mochi?

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My favourite is the bear one. The flavour, since the cat of course is the cutest. The dog is the traditional one, with bean paste on the inside, while the cat has got chocolate. The bear has got cream and that is why it is a winner, apart from that cute face of his, of course 🙂

It’s our first day and we want to be relaxed, so we decide to celebrate our arrival in Osaka and go… to the HUB! This turns out to be a splendid idea, followed by an even better idea: karaoke! This is our only real long karaoke night. We stay in the booth for hours on end and after a while we discover that our drinks are very much watered down, so we start ordering whiskeys, just because. Needless to say, our night ends in a 7Eleven, buying half of the shop, and then home, eating half of what bought. Yours truly  has got an hilarious breakdown over not having enough food for everybody, despite having just bought half of the above-mentioned 7Eleven. Cookie and Lunch will have a good laugh at me for days after this moment. This also shows you how important it is, to me, that everyone EATS PROPERLY. 😀

The following day we blessedly sleep in and we go to Kyoto to visit the Fushimi-Inari shrine and grounds. If you are somewhat discouraged by the hordes of tourists in Kyoto, remember always that the average tourist is very lazy. Have a look at the main temple, avoid the crowds in the first part of the ascent to the top of the mountain, and then you will be magically free of (almost) all the lazy foreigners who get scared of a little hike. Also, don’t even bother to try and take pictures of the torii gates in the lower area, you will only get frustrated. Once again, wait for the higher grounds and you will be able to take breathtaking pictures of the city from above and the beautiful walk to the top of the mountain. Even the hangover can’t do anything to dampen our mood while we walk our way through this really magical place. It is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of my favourite memories of the trip.

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Feeling completely restored after the beautiful afternoon, we head again towards Dotonbori, where we have both okonomiyaki and takoyaki. The okonomiyaki we eat is better than the one we had in Tokyo, and it is my first time eating delicious takoyaki, lovely little balls made with love on a cast iron griddle with octopus. I am writing this just before dinner, and I am growing huuungry… 🙂

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The third day in Osaka does not really contain much from a food perspective, but I am going to briefly tell you all the same, because I am your faithful chronicler and I want historical accuracy. 😉

On a whim, we decide to try our luck and go to the Universal Studios. You can imagine our surprise when we arrive at the ticket counter at the entrance of the park and… there is no queue! We can start our day behaving like children without having to wait! It’s wonderful! We really have a great time, first and foremost at Hogwarts, but then we are surprised by the Jurassic Park ride, and I am delighted to discover that there is a temporary Neon Genesis Evangelion ride that is just unbelievable. The whole day, of course, is spent running around like kids, and the pinnacle of the food we eat is just a hot dog… but it’s still worth it.

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I can’t quite remember our dinner. We go to a place that is extremely cheap for a curry, and the only picture I take is this one: a menu featuring my new hero, Gudetama the sad egg yolk (If I haven’t spoken about this little guy before, he does actually exist and it’s part of the Sanrio – Hello Kitty – family).

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If you look Gudetama up on Google, by the way, you can have a laugh, because people are obsessed with him and his well being…

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Japan, the food experience – 4 – Nagasaki

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And so, we arrived to Nagasaki. This was the place where we were almost going to experience a capsule hotel. Almost, because we were kind of cheating:  the First Cabin Nagasaki is not a tomb-like capsule hotel, since you have a room as big as your bed (a normal sized bed) for yourself, wall to wall with your neighbours. And you have a proper ceiling. You do have shared facilities so really, apart from the less claustrophobic personal space, it is like an expensive hostel (it was not the cheapest place we stayed, it was actually more expensive than the accommodation in Yufuin! :O ). Also, the man at the reception was probably the first (and second to last, more of this later) rude Japanese in our entire journey.

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Kakuni Manjo – so delicious

Once we dropped our suitcases we decided to go for lunch. Nagasaki is a city with a long commercial history; there is a big Chinese community there and a Chinatown, which is one of the biggest touristic spots in town. What better than going for lunch to Chinatown, then? And this is when, for the first (and I think last) time in Japan, we had an underwhelming meal. And expensive! We just ate a couple of (very meh) baos (we love baos, more of this later) and I can’t quite remember what else. We ran away from Chinatown not looking back, just after buying a Kakuni Manjo (a bao dough sandwich with pork belly filling) from a street vendor that was waaaaay nicer than the lunch we had just had.

We hopped on one of the horrific street cars that had given us an unforgettable ride to the hotel area from the train station and we went to the Bomb Museum. The second nuclear bomb was not dropped in the city centre, but in the industrial area north to the main portion of the city, which was protected somehow by the hills cradling it. There is no need really to talk more about the visit. It’s impacting, blood curdling, awful, and a must go to museum if you ever go to Nagasaki.

In the evening we went to Dejima, a man built island in Nagasaki bay. Nagasaki is a very tortuous city, nestled between hills and with a big, narrow harbor where, to this day, ships are still built by Mitsubishi.

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The sight from the restaurants along the bay is beautiful and the place where we stopped for our dinner was also lovely: for a tenner each we had a bowl of food, side dish and soup, placidly gazing over the water.

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The RUSTLER

We then went back to the hotel, where we separated: me and Cookie went to the girls cabins and Lunch went to the men capsules. How did the night go you ask? I loved the concept of the hotel, but, as always in these places, if people around you are not mindful, the noise can become quite annoying. The girl in front of me was a Rustler, for example: I don’t know how many packages of crisps and/or cookies, plastic bags and more paraphernalia she managed to take out of her suitcase, just to put it back in in a different order more than three times (and this only at night, since she went at it again in the morning). That, together with the noise that the blind makes when it’s slid down, made for quite a restless night.

mascotWhen we finally got out of the hotel, we headed once again to the bay, to board our boat for Gunkanjima, the Battleship Island (of which we saw a lot of ads everywhere, not knowing what that was and thinking it was a weird poo emoji). The visit took the most of the morning, and it was very interesting since it gave us a beautiful view of the Nagasaki harbor, a nice trip out on the sea, and the incredible story of Hashima Island that was, for a brief moment in time, the most populated piece of land on the planet. What we thought of as the Weird Nagasaki Poo Emoji is in fact, a mine, above which the island was located. The trip is worth it, but don’t expect too much of the island itself. Since it’s very dangerous to walk around because the buildings are all in ruins, you are only allowed to walk on the island in very limited places and the time you spend on it is probably around 30 minutes. It’s worth the trip though, in my opinion.

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Nicely toasted after the trip on the sea, we had another lovely meal at the same restaurant where we had been the night before, and we headed towards Glover Garden. Oh, on the way we finally tried the Clear Coke (they are crazy about “clear” stuff over there) and the verdict is: it tastes like Sprite with a hint of Coke, so why bother.
Up we went to Glover Garden, then, through conveniently placed escalators.
It’s lovely to have a walk overlooking the harbor, through old Western-styled houses, creaky wooden floors and beautifully kept ponds and gardens. We took our time there, and by the time we were back down in the city it was almost dusk.

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We later discovered that the presenter was this Yoshio Kojima, who was famous because of the following dance (yes, he always did it with the speedo):

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We found him thanks to the dance, because he did his move a couple of times and everyone seemed to be very pleased. Obviously, from then on that was my move too, whenever I was feeling like doing the idiot (which happens quite often).

After our 15 minutes of glory, we were happy to go for dinner close to the hotel. By chance, we wandered into an Izakaya where, after a highly embarrassing moment with our shoes (Where do we have to leave them? Do we have to take them off here? There? Oooh, we have to put them in these cute lockers…) we sat down for a lovely Japanese tapas meal and headed for our hotel, packing our bags (silently) before our trip to Osaka.

I realize in this post there aren’t many food pictures, but I am telling what we ate, broadly speaking… I was busier eating than taking pictures, which is always a good thing in my opinion 😉

 

Japan, the food experience – 3 – Fukuoka

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We left Yufuin sad to leave our lovely apartment and a little pissed off at our suitcase, that decided to abandon us just after barely a week. One of its wheels just gave up and from then on it had to be dragged with a considerable amount of effort whenever we had to change city. Needless to say it happened a little bit too early.

Anyway, we took the train and rode through the lovely, green, lush Japanese countryside to Hakata Station, in Fukuoka. The station is so called because it is located in the ward bearing the same name, which used to be a city of its own. In the XIX century the two cities of Hakata and Fukuoka were merged, but still nowadays some important parts of the city, such as the station, keep the name of the old port.

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Canal City

We got to the city a little earlier than expected and we decided to give it a try and find our AirBnb. It was fairly easy to find its location following the host’s instructions, but then we saw ourselves in front of this tiny house, ringing the bell with no one answering (even though there was clearly someone in). Captain Lunch just saw that the door was open and went in. He found crazy cat lady Megumi, our host, whose English was wobbly but who was so nice that we didn’t care much. She showed us her doggie and her cat (she literally brought the cat out on a chair for us to see (needless to say, I loved it) and then she brought us to the tiniest flat I’ve ever seen. It was not bad, but I must say that it was veeeeery small.

After this quite absurd and charming moment, we went for lunch. And what a nice lunch that was! We went to Canal City, in the centre, a very special shopping centre that looks more like Tomorrowland than an actual place in an actual city. In the food court, there’s the Ramen Stadium. Where you can eat all the different types of ramen from the different regions in Japan. For real! We went for a classic one because we wanted to try the local specialty, Tonkotsu Ramen, a pork-based ramen that makes me salivate just thinking about it.

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While digesting after this lovely meal, we walked lazily around Canal City and we headed for the city centre, not really looking at the map. We went through the “dodgy” area nearby (in Japan there’s really no dodgy areas, but this was slightly sleazier than the

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rest of the city) and walked in the general direction of a bar, which we couldn’t find (since we had no idea where to look for it in the first place). We found some sort of English pub that was awful, and crying desperately “HUB, where art thou?” we decided it was a good idea to go for a karaoke. Finally, Karaoke! The first time around (more about karaoke later!) we only had a couple of hours to kill, and we fumbled with the controls, the mics and the paraphernalia for a good ten minutes, so by the time we were starting to warm up it was over. When we got out, we could distinctly hear a group of ten(ish) men screaming at the top of their lungs from a room nearby. I think they were having lots of fun (and adult refreshments) 🙂

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The Cuteness!

For dinner, we wobbled to a very typical Fukuoka food stall, or Yatai, after a stop at the arcades (where we tried, with no luck, to get a doll from a UFO machine for what seemed like a long time). Now, we did not go to the place along the river where all the stalls are, since we were in the modern part of the city. There were three or four all around a corner, and we sat down at the first one with available seats. I was so ravenous I forgot to take a picture of the food, which again was ramen and something else I can’t remember. I took a picture of a cute plate though, because I sometimes got very distracted by kawaii things in Japan.

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The second day dawned beautiful and very, very hot. We slept in and went for a lovely breakfast on the banks of the lake in Ohori Park, that was very close to our matchbox apartment.

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After a brief walk in the park, we visited the city’s aquarium. It was nice, we saw dolphins and especially, we managed to stay out of the heat during the worst time of the day. When we headed back to Hakata Station, we decided that we had to try the local burger chain, Mos Burger. Delicious, like everything Japanese people make 🙂

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We headed then straight for the next sight, which was the the Fukuoka Tower.

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Radio tower placed basically on the beach, it grants a breath-taking view of the bay and the city. We were there at dusk, making the experience even more memorable. Pity I fear heights, so I was crawling along the windows of the tower like a crab trying to avoid thinking how high we were. I still took some pictures though! 😀

Once safely back down, we had a lovely ice cream while sitting placidly close to the beach, watching a group of children playing football and smelling the food being prepared in all the little seaside restaurants also overlooking the bay. Since we had had our burger very late (thanks to the adult refreshments of the previous day, we had slightly funny bellies), we were not hungry. We decided to go back to Ohori Park and have a beer sitting near the lake, watching joggers run by and people bringing out their doggies for a pee. It was a delightful ending for the two days in Fukuoka.

Bonus Pictures: At the Arcades, playing a train simulator (not kidding) and a real life Space Invaders 😀

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Ritorno alla routine. Muffin con cuore di Nutella.

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E mentre il mio racconto prosegue, in inglese, sulle mie meravigliose vacanze giapponesi, cerco di tornare alla routine ricettaria in italiano.

Anche se in questi giorni sono ossessionata con Claire Ptak, (la cui intervista per il podcast Flour Hour potete ascoltare qui) questa ricetta è tratta da “Cake Days” e non defrauda! Questi muffin sono buonissimi tiepidi e rimangono gustosi e soffici anche il giorno dopo. Personalmente sono molto generosa con la Nutella 😀


Muffin con cuore di Nutella


Ingredienti

  • 300 g di farina
  • 115 g di zucchero
  • 1 cucchiaio di lievito per dolci
  • 1/4 di cucchiaino di sale
  • 1/2 cucchiaino di bicarbonato sodico
  • 250 g  di latte intero
  • 1 cucchiaino di estratto di vaniglia
  • 2 uova grandi
  • 85 g di burro sciolto
  • 150 g di Nutella (ooops, crema alle nocciole 😉 )
  • 30 g di nocciole tagliate finemente (o come più vi piacciono)
  • 30 g di zucchero da spolverare sui muffin
  • Crema di nocciole extra per il ripieno dei muffin

Preparazione

  1. Accendiamo il forno a 170 gradi e prepariamo gli stampi per i muffin.
  2. In una ciotola grande, setacciamo gli ingredienti asciutti (farina, zucchero, lievito, bicarbonato e sale).
  3. In un altro bricco mescoliamo il latte, l’estratto di vaniglia e le uova e mescoliamo bene il tutto.
  4. Facciamo un cratere nel centro degli ingredienti solidi e aggiungiamo poco a poco gli ingredienti del bricco. Anche in questo caso possiamo mescolare gli ingredienti a mano o utilizzando un mixer elettrico a bassa velocità. Come sempre, dobbiamo solo mescolare gli ingredienti, senza strafare. Aggiungiamo il burro sciolto, mescoliamo, e aggiungiamo/mescoliamo la crema di nocciole.
  5. Riempiamo le capsule dei muffin fino ad un quarto della loro capienza. Ci armiamo di cucchiaio e pazienza, e aggiungiamo nel centro di ogni muffin un cucchiaino circa (al gusto) di Nutella, e copriamo con altro composto come sempre fino a 2/3 della capienza della capsula.
  6. Spolveriamo la superficie dei muffin con lo zucchero messo da parte.
  7. Inforniamo per 25-30 minuti, fino a quando, al toccare i muffin con un dito, questi sono elastici e ritrovano la loro forma. Li lasciamo qualche minuto nello stampo e poi li lasciamo raffreddare su una griglia.

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Questi gioiellini non durano mai più di un giorno e mezzo, sono veramente buonissimi! Viva Hummingbird!

Japan, the food experience – 2 – Yufuin

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Despite my lack of Internet at home (thank you Eir, and Virgin), I will manage to publish this post about our second Japanese stop, Yufuin 🙂
Where is Yufuin, you ask? Well, it is a little village in Kyushu, the island south of Honshu (Tokyo’s island, just so you can vaguely picture it on your totally made up mental map). We wanted a little pause between cities, so we decided upon this onsen ridden place, the second best known spa town on the island after the very touristy Beppu. I would have loved to go to mount Aso and surroundings, but we just did not have time for everything (three weeks just seem like a lot of time…).

Off we went to Yufuin, then. The trip from Tokyo to Yufu was 8 hours, with no delays, of course. The last leg of the trip was aboard the famous (yes, in Japan there are lots of famous trains, more of this in another post) Yufuin-no-mori, touristic train that goes from Hakata station in Fukuoka to Beppu, through the lovely mountains and countryside of Kyushu.

A very nice waiter in the Kirinko lake area literally accompanied us to the door of our Airbnb place, which was unbelievable. We had a 12 people apartment for ourselves: a bedroom, two massive Japanese-style living rooms, and, most importantly, a private

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PRIVATE Onsen!!

onsen. Yes, it was as good as it sounds. The onsen area was divided, so we had at our disposal an indoor hot-hot-hot water pool, and an outdoor warm-warm-perfect pool, which was our first stop after a long, even if pleasant, trip.

That night, we went and explored a little bit of the town. A word of warning here: Yufuin is mainly a day-trip or, at best, a one night stay place, since it is very small. Most of the travelers stay in their own very nice and luxurious ryokans for the night, so it is not too easy to find a restaurant open after dark (that being around six thirty in the afternoon).

And that was when it started to rain.

It was the only night it caught us while we were outside and it did not help the restaurant search. We headed to the area close to the train station and we were turned down from a couple of places. When starting to feel desperate, we found this tiny little restaurant. Not only they didn’t turn us down, but they were so nice we almost started crying: as soon as we sat down, they handed us the menu that was, for the first and last time since, in Japanese with no pictures. When trying to figure it out, a woman who was clearly the cook’s wife explained to us that we could use a QR code to have it translated into English. The frustration was at its peak then, since we had no internet. That’s when, with the kind of sigh that only a mother could produce, she went away and came back after a minute with her own phone, where the app was open to order everything online, in English. And of course, the food was just heavenly. Yakitoris of different types started flowing (I’m looking at you, chicken skin yakitori), and when we finally headed home, we were happy again.

Our second and last day in Yufuin saw us stewing for a while in our private onsen (I can’t express enough smugness at having a private onsen for 20 eur a night) and then, relaxed, heading out to the centre of town. Yufuin’s main streets are full of little shops selling everything artisan (clothes, orange juice, ice cream, shoes…) so it was very nice to just stroll, visit shops and buy souvenirs. There was a Snoopy shop and café (the first sign of Japan’s obsession with the pooch), various animal cafés and flower town, where you could find Heidi’s goat (if you don’t know what I am talking about it’s ok, it’s an old Japanese cartoon that everyone in Italy had the misfortune of watching at some point or another… that little Heidi brat!).

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Most importantly, we had lunch! We found another teeny tiny place close to the train station where a couple owned a nice ramen restaurant. And boy, that ramen was good. I think it was actually the best one I had while in Japan. It was a chilly ramen packed full of flavour and deliciousness. Spicy and earthy, I just loved it from beginning to end, when we dunked the rice in to finish it up. Lieutenant Cookie had a smoked pork ramen that also looked delicious (she confirmed that it also tasted yummi 😀 ).

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After this very satisfying lunch we headed back to explore the town. We had a lovely ice cream from one of the many, many, street vendors and we went to the Floral Village. We did not have big expectations about this place, but it turned out to be a lovely little corner of this lovely little town where you could find Heidi’s goat (yup), some owls, some more nice shops (Studio Ghibli is also high up in Japanese most favourite things ever) and a couple of ducks thrown in for good measure.

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The night in Yufuin was very quiet. We decided we wanted to stay in and enjoy some beers in our private onsen (Did I say that we had a private onsen? Oh, yes, I did 😀 ).
Before going home, we went to a convenience store in order to try another staple of Japanese cuisine: convenience store fried chicken. It’s very normal for Japanese people to eat in these places that are cheap and fast, but I must say that the face of the ladies at the till when we started ordering food was hilarious. Normally you eat a couple of little pieces of chicken, you don’t buy the whole shop like we did and bring home beer and a banquet worthy of a Roman emperor.
Their faces can be summarized in the following fashion:

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After causing such interesting reactions, we retreaded with our dinners and nice Japanese beers to the apartment, where we relaxed in the therapeutic waters of Yufuin before getting a well deserved night’s sleep.