{"id":7233,"date":"2009-12-19T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/19\/oishi-part-4\/"},"modified":"2010-12-29T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T13:46:00","slug":"oishi-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/19\/oishi-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Oishi!! \u2013 Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday evening was the last day in which dinner was complimentary from my hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner last night was exquisite as always though the restaurant wait staff were terrifically busy as there was a small wedding reception hosted in the restaurant too. The married couple were dressed in full traditional costumes, with the bride looking exactly like what you see in paintings \u2013 magnificent hairdo (though from my end it looked suspiciously like a wig), a huge kimono; and several of the guests were also in Japanese-styled suits and kimonos too.<\/p>\n<p>Their reception table was partitioned off, though I managed to just take one picture of the happy couple (won\u2019t post it here though).<\/p>\n<p>So, coming back to dinner; it started with a very interesting long porcelain plate of appetizers:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog2009kumamotoDSC_5116dinner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_5116dinner.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog2009kumamotoDSC_5116dinner\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then raw meats: was that beef I ate\u2026?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog2009kumamotoDSC_5118dinner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_5118dinner.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog2009kumamotoDSC_5118dinner\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then Japanese-styled meat balls:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog2009kumamotoDSC_5121dinner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_5121dinner.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog2009kumamotoDSC_5121dinner\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t remember what the name of this is: but it\u2019s kaige something something!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog2009kumamotoDSC_5122dinner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_5122dinner.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog2009kumamotoDSC_5122dinner\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And finally the main course (didn\u2019t take pictures of the dessert):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog2009kumamotoDSC_5125dinner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_5125dinner.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog2009kumamotoDSC_5125dinner\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just incredible: I\u2019ve had six evening of Japanese fine dining, and none of the dishes on each evening were repeated. Just goes to show the huge variety of cuisine here. Though at this point I\u2019m already getting a little tired of Japanese cuisine. It\u2019s delicious, but right now I\u2019m already dying for roti prata, roti john, char kway teow, bak chor noodles etc.!<\/p>\n<p>So, for tonight\u2019s dinner I\u2019m wondering: shall I go back to KFC \/ MacDonalds\u2026? :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday evening was the last day in which dinner was complimentary from my hotel. Dinner last night was exquisite as always though the restaurant wait staff were terrifically busy as there was a small wedding reception hosted in the restaurant<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/19\/oishi-part-4\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Oishi!! \u2013 Part 4<\/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-7233","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\/7233","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=7233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}