Kagoshima（鹿児島） delicious food deux (16th - 18th May)

Catching up from the last entry, now I will be introducing the main meals  dishes that are extremely famous in Kagoshima!

Being recommended by the Guesthouse owner, we went to Butatoro Ramen shop.

This shop isn't far away from our guest house and it's just next to the central station shopping centre. It's in one of the streets on the right hand side of the shopping mall.

The no. 1 menu was the Butatoro Ramen which costed 750yen. But if you want half -cooked egg to be added it, it will cost 870 yen.

Comparing to all the ramen I have eaten, I think I like Kagoshima flavour the best. The soup was very thick and the ramen's chewiness is just right for me! One bowl is already so fulfilling that I couldn't eat lunch after that...

As it was sooooooo good, I bought this souvenir pack, costing 1080 yen and it contained two ramen. You can bring it home and cook it yourself!


The next thing to introduce is....... Black pork shabushabu!

 This shop had a very posh entrance and it looks very expensive. But since black pork is going to be expensive anyway, we just entered...

We order one sugiyaki and one shabushabu.

Shabushabu's soup is clearer and has less additional flavours. So you can taste the black pork clearer with it.

Sugiyaki soup is darker and as you can see it adds more flavour to the soup. But if you like stronger  flavours, I think you will like this one better.

The two sets diff in the sauce you dip in and the soup. Me and my friend ordered two to share so that we can taste both of them! If I didn't remember wrong, one set costed about 1700 yen.

I think black pork has more fats than the normal pork and it is more smooth than the normal pork so it's fresher. But again because I don't like the feeling of eating lots of fats, I prefer eating other meat than black pork.






Talking about black pork, we also tried Tongatsu (fried pork) black pork version.

We picked a restaurant next to the guesthouse and it costed 1200 yen.

 It comes with a set with miso soup and rice.

Again, nearly half of the pork is purely fat, so it didn't match my taste. But it fried it in a way that it's crispy outside and soft inside, so it's not bad at all! (Though I really prepare the normal pork one with less fat)






Next thing I wanna introduce is the Kagoshima beef!

We went to this restaurant that specialise in the locally bred beef called 薩摩牛　Satsumagyu! It is a ranked A4 or above.

The restaurant is called nabeshima. Please  visit https://www.pref.kagoshima.jp/ag01/sangyo-rodo/nogyo/syokuiku/suishinten/navi/kagoshima/niku/nabeshima-tenmonkanhonten.html



It looks very posh here and it was separated into different corners and rooms!

It has blinds so that you can have your own private space!

Because we really don't know which part to order, we chose this "all combination" set which contains the recommended parts of the beef.
(5800 yen)

 This is the "all combination" set and it also contained the insides of an ox. (the far right)

Out of all the parts, I preferred the ribs one because it's very tender and beefy!!!



They gave you the grilled beef sauce and sea salt to eat with it. But I only used the sea salt because the beefy sauce will cover the very excellent taste of it!!!

The sea salt brought the taste of the beef out even more and it melted in my mouth!!!!

yum!!!!

I had to say, it's one of the best grilled beef I have ever eaten in my life!!







Now I will be tell you about the snacks we ate while we were shopping on the shopping street

there is a free piano to play and the whole street will listen to it!

Though it's a bit out of tune....












We ate this manjyu (bun) with honey flavoured which apparently is very famous here.

But I think it's just normal...

(shop: 蜂楽饅頭 鹿児島本店)

 Sweet potato is also very famous in kagoshima and we saw this kagoshima special version crepe with Kagoshima local sweet potato cream filling!!!!


350yen~


It was really good!! as sweet potato is my favourite!!
























And this sweet potato pudding!!!!








































Oh! And I won't be able to forgive myself if I don't introduce this Dessert cafe to you!!





Chestnut cake!!!

Melon cream cake!!!

Cheese cake!

And you can drink free tea with it.

 Rare half-baked soft cheese cake!!!! Which I think taste the best out of all and we ate it twice while we were staying in Kagoshima!!!!!! It was very cheesy and smooth which brings out all the cheesy sensation to your tongue!!



And we ate some grilled sticks for dinner! (cos we ate too much during the day actually...)

Cheese Fondu with different grilled meat and vegetable!!

One night, we lost or way but found this beautiful park!! (just a random fact)

 please leave messages if you have any questions!!