{"id":6921,"date":"2009-12-13T18:21:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T10:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/13\/how-do-you-say-yummy-in-japanese-part-1\/"},"modified":"2010-12-29T21:46:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T13:46:50","slug":"how-do-you-say-yummy-in-japanese-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/13\/how-do-you-say-yummy-in-japanese-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you say \u201cyummy\u201d in Japanese? \u2013 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn\u2019t kidding when I wrote yesterday that my first meals in Japan was fast-food. Here\u2019s the picture to prove it!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4543-kamitori-shopping-arcade\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_4543kamitorishoppingarcade.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4543-kamitori-shopping-arcade\" width=\"550\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And that was just lunch \u2013 a teriyaki chicken burger of sorts, orange squash and fries. For dinner, I checked out McDonalds\u2019 in the Kamitori shopping district and had what looks like a McChicken Fillet burger, fries and chilled Earl Grey tea to boot!<\/p>\n<p>I can almost hear Matt hollering: \u201cYou should have given me your plane ticket, you doofus \u2013 I would have eaten everything Japanese plus some!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s nothing to do with that I don\u2019t eat Japanese. Rather, I ventured into several Japanese eateries and restaurants, only to walk out minutes later \u2013 because I couldn\u2019t understand a word of what the menu was about, and had no clue how I was supposed to order to begin with!<\/p>\n<p>On the upside: these two meals yesterday should be the only times I\u2019m having non-Japanese, because starting from today, I\u2019m having my breakfasts and dinners in the very safe, quiet with scenic view, Matsuri Restaurant inside the hotel \u2013 with amazing wait service to boot. This was for breakfast:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4588-kkr-hotel\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_4588kkrhotel.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4588-kkr-hotel\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which I sort of rushed, as I wanted to check out Kumamoto Castle early with the couple of free hours I had before meeting the college staff in the afternoon. But after the campus orientation and briefing, dinner was a more more leisurely affair which I\u2019ll blog in the next post. For the time being, here\u2019re a few pictures of Matsuri Restaurant at KKR Hotel Kumamoto.:)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4591-kkr-hotel\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_4591kkrhotel.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4591-kkr-hotel\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4904-dining\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_4904dining.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4904-dining\" width=\"550\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4915-dining\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_4915dining.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4915-dining\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn\u2019t kidding when I wrote yesterday that my first meals in Japan was fast-food. Here\u2019s the picture to prove it! And that was just lunch \u2013 a teriyaki chicken burger of sorts, orange squash and fries. For dinner, I<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/13\/how-do-you-say-yummy-in-japanese-part-1\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  How do you say \u201cyummy\u201d in Japanese? \u2013 Part 1<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[463,237],"class_list":["post-6921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dining","category-traveling","tag-japan-2010","tag-kumamoto-2009","wpcat-9-id","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}