江戸川 なんばウォーク店, Unagi Rice Osaka

This was one of my best find in Osaka. Something that finally suit my taste bud.

The restaurant 江戸川 was located inside the underground mall – Subway Midosuji Line Umeda Station.

The standard of the unagi rice here is definitely much better than the ones you can get from shopping centre food street like Takashimaya or Hankyu.  The rice used were the glutinous rice, sauce was also flavourful.

 

Pom’s Farm, Osaka

This Pom’s Farm store should be a chain restaurant in Japan serving omelette rice. But its also one of the rare ones which I like the food…

Ordered the seafood omelette rice and dessert set.

 

Personalised Nissin Instant Cup Noodles, Osaka

Must introduce this place to all who likes Nissin Instant Cup Noodles. The Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum was built to honour the inventor of instant noodles.  It features the history of how Mr Momofuk Ando invented instant noodles.

Instant noodles Tunnel displays various flavours of instant noodles and other Nissin products according to timeline.

The highlight at the museum was for me to create a personalised cup noodles. For 300 yen (ard S$4.50), you can bring home a “Cup Noodle” which you can design the cup, choose the soup flavour and add ingredients that you like.

This is cup noodles cost ard S$4.50 ~ expensive but how often does one gets be a product designer and own a personalised cup noodles? =P

[Updates on 17th Sep 2011]

Lucky I had stated in my post title that the Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum is the one in Osaka as today Nissin Foods opened a Cup Noodles Museum in Yokohama, south of Tokyo. I’m not sure about the difference between the two museums. Based on news report the new museum seem to have similar stuff to the one I visited, for e.g history of instant-noodle inventor Momofuku Ando, a make-your-own instant-noodle bar etc.  Perhaps some nice soul who manage to visit both can share what’s the diff? Thks!

Arima Grand Hotel, Kobe

Another post-dated post as I was going through some of the old photos.

Arima Grand Hotel is an onsen resort hotel in Kobe.

Dinner at the hotel was a sumptous dinner.

This meal I can list down what I had eaten cos they provided an English menu =)

• Shokuzenshu – Yuzu sour wine
• Zensai – Delicate arrangement of seasonal Japanese fish and vegetables
• Sashimi – Freshly sliced snapper, tuna, shrimp, rudderfish and sea urchin served with Wasabi and in-house blended soy-sauce
• Takiawase – Japanese vegetables (conger, eel, taro-potato, Japanese bean, tofu skin, wheat gluten) simmered in clear fish broth
• Suimono – Pike eel and Mattsutake mushroom in clear fish broth
• Aibachi – Deep fried shrimp buns, topped with starchy sauce
• Shiizakana – Japanse black cattle’s marbled steak and vegetables served with in-house blended Ponzu sauce
• Yakimono – Grilled soft roe and goosefish liver with Miso cheese sauce in citrus fruit pot
• Agemono – Crab tempura with vegetables
• Shokuji – Steamed rice served with various Japanese vegetable pickles
• Tomewan – Miso soup with Japanese vegetables
• Dessert – Fresh fruits

It was a long dinner with all of us dressed in the Yukata – luckily don’t need to kneel to eat! haha…Somehow, I wasn’t impressed with the dishes as well…think I dun like such cooking style whereby everything seems to be presented in their natural taste…