お団子の美味しさ
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Hello.
Hello, guys.
So, anything new that you found in Kyoto?
Like new, I don't know, new thing.
Yeah, at the Kyoto station, I ate this food called the Nikumabushi.
Nikumabushi.
Yeah.
Okay.
Ever heard of it?
It's, I imagine it's the meat version of shitsumabushi.
You got...
Um, it looks like that.
I took a picture.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
It looks like, yeah, shitsumabushi, but like oju version.
You eat with like a boiled dashi water.
Oh, yeah, yeah, then...
So, shitsumabushi, but meat version.
Meat version, yeah, yeah.
It's a little, the bowl, it's different, but yeah, okay.
So, yeah, this was at Kyoto station.
There were a lot of people lining up for it.
Which is well done.
So, we were like, what is this?
Let's try it.
It was so good.
So good?
It was so good, man, it was so good.
Which side of the station?
Is it the south side or...
It was so confusing.
I think it was right next to where they have the Gogoichi.
Oh, so that's like the southern side, Gogoichi?
Yeah.
Yeah, so it's just in front of the kaisatsu, right?
No?
No, I don't think it was next to the kaisatsu.
Gogoichi, where is the Gogoichi?
They have a corner shop.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, but I think it's rather southern side.
Yeah, okay.
It's in the station or...
Yeah, it's in the station.
It's like one of the buildings of the station.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay.
There were a lot of restaurants in a row, you know.
I see.
It's one of them.
Oh, get it, it's the...
You had...
What do you have?
You had McDonald's on the street, right?
Yeah, okay, okay, yeah.
That's the southern side, Hachijooguchi side.
It's close to the Shinkansen platform?
I think so, yeah, I think so.
Oh, yeah, I didn't know that.
It was really good.
Yeah.
Oh, it looks nice.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, the amount of...
The ways you can eat the Hitsumabushi, the Nikumabushi was good.
Like you could eat it with the dashi, you can eat it with a lot of toppings.
Yeah, kumis and everything.
Yeah, it was so good.
It's not gonna make you bored.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was good.
Nice, nice, nice, nice.
年越し蕎麦の体験
I also went to the soba place because it was New Year's.
Yes.
It was a very popular soba place as well in Pontocho.
Okay.
Yeah, it was a really...
I was making the line.
Let me see if I took a picture.
Okay, unfortunately, I didn't take a picture of the dish.
I just took a picture of how long it was, the line.
But it was long, you know, it was long.
Wow.
Yeah.
Nice.
It's nice how you guys lined up.
Yeah.
It's just in between two buildings and just it's like very narrow.
Very narrow, like Uraroji kind of place.
Nice, nice, nice.
Yeah.
Right, right, right, right.
Other places I would say...
お団子の美味しさ
Oh, the dango.
I went to this random dango place.
There's a lot of dango places, right?
Around Kiyomizu-jira.
Okay, yeah, it's nice.
Ninenzaka and stuff like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, man, I've never had...
It was fresh.
Okay.
It was cooked fresh.
Okay.
And it was soft, so it was soft.
It was nothing like I've had in my life.
Good.
Yeah, best dango I've had in my life.
Wow.
Yeah.
Is it like shoyu dango?
I think it was...
Yeah, I think it was...
Yeah, it's shoyu dango.
I mean, they had several flavors, you know, the shoyu, the yamogi.
Oh, I see.
The anko.
The anko, yeah.
You can taste every one of them, I feel like, I think, yeah.
But every one of them was so soft.
It was like a little bit crispy on the outside because they cooked it.
Yeah.
And it was, yeah, it was like almost juicy even.
I've never had a dango so fresh and tasty.
Good.
That was good.
I love that.
Oh, great.
Yeah.
Well, it's...
Well, usually, even if we see those, like, good dango shops or, I don't know, like, random shops that interest us, you cannot stop.
You can just see the spot and just need to, like, go just as...
Move along with the crowd.
You cannot just stop and just go, like, have time to, you know...
That's crazy.
So you're very lucky.
I didn't have to wait at all.
Like, I just went inside and the seat was open.
Oh, that's crazy.
If you're lucky enough and you were able to stop at the shops, you arrive at the shop, you see 50 people lining and just, oh, no, it's just...
It's crazy.
Yeah, just next, maybe next time, just go back to that.
Yeah.
Yeah, man, it was...
Oh, nice, nice, nice.
Yeah, I must have been lucky.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
Were there no, there were no, no, the shugaku ryokou students?
There were no shugaku ryokou students.
Yeah, I can imagine having a lot of shugaku ryokou students.
Yeah.
京都でのスイーツ体験
Those, like, dango shops, like...
Yeah, it's classic.
Always 50, 60 students are, like, lining up and just, oh, wow.
Right, right, right, right.
Nice.
It was nice.
It was awesome.
It was awesome.
Yeah, it's actually a great city if you're, like, able to enjoy that.
Right, right, right.
And, you know, a lot of matcha sweets, desserts.
Oh, you've tried all those?
I love, yeah, I love the matcha ones.
But every time I go there, I'm, like, same...
Like, I know that it's going to be the exact same flavor as the one you can enjoy in Tokyo.
Oh, yeah?
But I go for it.
You still go for it?
Oh, okay.
And I'm, like, oh, it's exactly the same flavor, but I like it, you know?
Okay.
It's good if you like them.
Yeah.
I had the o-matcha, the actual, with the dango, I think it came with the o-matcha.
That was so good, too.
Oh, you went to, like, the tea shop?
Like a tea...
I don't think it was a tea shop, like a traditional tea shop.
It was just a...
Yeah, it was, like, an oshare dango cafe.
That served o-matcha with the dangos.
Nice.
Yeah.
It was good.
It was good.
It was good, too.
Nice, nice, nice.
Yeah.
Very enjoyable.
I enjoyed it.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
You know, in Kinkaku-ji, you have, like, a little tea house, kind of?
Oh, really?
Yeah, and the place you can enjoy the matcha and dango, I forget.
Okay.
Yeah, you have the place, but you're never able to...
Actually...
Actually enjoy it.
It's still packed.
Are you talking about the place where...
You know how they have a junro?
After you see the main Kinkaku-ji, you kind of twist and turn, and then there's, like,
a shop that sells drinks, soft serves, and inside there's, like, a little zashiki?
Maybe that?
In my memory, it was in the garden.
Oh, it was in the garden?
Yeah.
Okay.
It was the last part of the junro.
Okay.
I see.
But maybe that shop, maybe...
Yeah.
Yeah, but every restaurant that I encountered during the Kinkaku-ji, it was all, like, open.
Oh, no.
It was all open seats.
It's...
So...
Wow.
I mean...
So...
Wow.
New Year's is a great timing.
Yeah.
That's the...
Oh, I didn't know that.
That's a great timing.
Good.
Good.
Yeah.
I'd love to go.
Yeah.
Right.
So...
Yeah.
That's great.
Nice.
All right.
Thanks for sending, guys.
Thank you.
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