Thank you all for your concern in your comments yesterday 🙇 We arrived safely in Fukui Prefecture and enjoyed sightseeing.
Today's breakfast and lunch were orotsuri soba, oage, bolga rice, saba sushi, etc. 😋.
And for dinner after such a full day, Ippongi Dry Classic, so delicious ✨.
It has a fruity but alu aroma, a beautiful mouthfeel, a light umami, and a sharp and clean spiciness ✨It goes well with seafood and has a great umami, it was the perfect drink for dinner 😊.
Good evening, ichiro18!
Sounds like you had a great time on your bullet trip 🎵.
Sightseeing and eating are both good 🤤.
Dry sake and seafood sounds like a good pairing and a perfect sake katsuki 😍.
Good evening ma-ki-😃.
I really wanted to drink alone at night, but lack of sleep and a buffet made it impossible 🤣I'm going to buy some booze and go home 😅.
Good evening chika 😃.
Thank you 😊Luckily it was raining today ⁉️🤔🤣Tomorrow looks like thunderstorms so sightseeing will be tough but I'll be back for another 6 hours 😁.
Good morning, ichiro18😊I love your trip to Fukui at the beginning of the year 🎵I would love to visit the dinosaur museum 🥹The seafood dishes and Ippongi look delicious and perfect for the New Year 😋🍶.
Good evening, Pinocchio 😃.
I was in a hurry to go there in December 😁The dinosaur museum is spectacular 😳The exhibits are amazing! The dinosaur museum is worth seeing 😳The exhibits were amazing✨Seafood and dry sake from the Sea of Japan side is still delicious.
Hi Jive, good evening 😃.
I enjoyed Fukui 🥰I wish I could have spent more time there instead of staying overnight 😅It was my first time in Fukui in 20 years and it was very refreshing ✨The food, drinks and water were delicious👍
Today, my family and I went to Fukui Prefecture for crab 🦀.
I am so excited to see the crab after a very long time 🤭.
I asked for a draft sake at the restaurant and here comes "Ippongi" from Fukui Prefecture ✨!
By the way, this is all they had lol (zero choice)!
Then we will have it with the crab 🙏🙏!
Wow, it's quite tasty with a bit of dryness and umami flavor ✨.
It's a refreshing and easy to drink sake that goes well with crab and sashimi 🍶.
It was my first time to try Ichihongi, but it was better than I expected and I would love to try their other sakes if I have a chance. ☺️
Sometimes it's good to have a dry sake with umami flavor ✨.
I'm scared of the crab staring at me 😨 (turn your head the other way!)
Joker Congrats on the win! I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to find the right one for you 😊I'm going to have a conversation with my favorite liquor store before I talk to them about what brand I'm not drinking because the last time I had 00 was so good. 😊In the end it's intuition, but it does broaden the range (and body type 😅).
Happy New Year, AAJI ✨
I understand why you dare to ask for a brand you haven't tried yet 😆.
I also sometimes choose a brand I love after I tell them my preference and ask for their recommendation.
Sometimes my intuition is wrong though lol
A Happy New Year bottle.
A gift from my brother-in-law in Fukui.
It is light and dry.
This year, I will do my best under the theme of "Never give up on life! I will do my best under the theme of "laying the groundwork for a prosperous 40s.
⭐︎⭐︎
Only 3 days left in this year!
I had a lot of drinking last week, so I had no alcohol on Christmas Day.
I had hors d'oeuvres at Hama Sushi with the kids, and the whipped cream was not well received by them, so I tried to make Christmas-specific Kami-Nagashi (Japanese sweets) and the response was rather positive 🥰.
Maybe [Christmas wagashi] will be good for a while 🤔.
Well, my wife and kids went back to my parents-in-law's house from last Friday, so I dared to do something I usually don't do [drinking at noon after night shift]. ✨️
We went back to our usual Soba noodle restaurant [Youkamean Kamenya] at 1:30am because there was a huge line.
First, we quenched our thirst with beer and kashiwa tempura, followed by fried tofu, and then chose the standard local sake, thinking that hot sake would be the best to soak up the delicious broth.
Ippongi Dry Classic (hot sake)
The aroma was hot with a hint of rice flavor, and the mouthfeel was full with a mellow finish that warmed the core of the body.
When it is cooled down, the clarity and plumpness of the flavor increases.
This is Fukui's heated sake!
[When paired with the delicious broth from the fried tofu, the taste is heavenly.
I chose Kasu Udon for my rice bowl. ✨️
It was the perfect drink after a long night of drinking, with the delicious taste of horumon (hormone) adding depth to the dashi broth 🍜.
The fourth picture is the Christmas sweets we ordered this year 🎄.
Hi Jive, good evening 🦉.
What a fun thing to do when you are alone 😁👍Perfect course with a drink from curry udon, doesn't it make you sleepy? 😆
Such pretty Japanese sweets 😳💕.
Good evening, Mr. Gyve!
I'm sorry to hear that you've been working the night shift, but you've got some serious stamina for daytime drinking 😲.
I love deep-fried tofu, but I haven't had it in a long time 😍.
It goes great with sake too 🤤🤤.
The wagashi is so cute 😋!
Hi, Pon-chan!
My wife basically hates noodles and flour, so we had a drink while we went to the [udon] shop at this kind of time 🥰 and went to bed immediately after returning home 💤.
When I found this wagashi, I thought, "This is it! I thought, "This is it!
Hi ma-ki, I've never tried drinking myself to sleep after a night shift before, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to get drunk.
I've never tried drinking sake and going to bed after a night shift, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to get drunk 🥰.
It was [agedashi-dofu] that was perfect for the clear Kansai-style dashi broth. ✨️
Hi Jive😃You were non-alcoholic at Xmas!
Christmas Kamigashi 🎄, this is the first time I've seen this 🍡Wagashi industry is doing a great job 🥰Your kids will be happy with this 🤩.
Hi Jive 😃
Xmas Wagashi✨I thought this was a surprise 👀.
Lunchtime drinking after a night shift is great stamina 😳
Gentle flavored deep-fried tofu and sharp hot dry sake, this is a winner 🏆.
Hi Jive 😃.
We too were planning to have no alcohol on Christmas 🎄😎Noon drink after a night shift! A reward after a hard day's work... in a way we can drink with impunity 🤗.
Hi, HinaHanaMama!
My in-laws invited me to a hot spring after Christmas, so I was going to drink there, so I had to adjust, but my father-in-law didn't come to the hot spring, so it was a rest day before the end of the year 🥰.
Hello, Mrs. Chesterty!
I was initially looking for something like a fruit platter because my kids don't like whipped cream yet, but then I found this wagashi and thought, "This is it! I thought 🥰.
Hi Jay & Nobby ☀☀☀☀!
Usually it's hard to have a lunchtime drink because I have to pick up and drop off my kids after the night shift 😅.
[The dashi broth from the restaurant was so delicious that it was a gentle meal after a night shift 🥰.
[When I had a late dinner at "Kicchin Usagi," I was reunited with a regular who used to come to the restaurant at the same time as me.
I can't come to the restaurant as often as I used to, so I guess there must be some kind of connection between us 🤣.
I gave him a bottle of "Ding-chan" as a gift, and he gave me one in return.
Ippongi Hatsushibori R6
I was surprised to see a one year old bottle of "Ippongi Hatsushibori".
I was curious to see how it would taste like!
The aroma is calm and mellow, and the mouthfeel is really full, with a slight gassy feeling, followed by a calm and weighty umami, and a calm lingering taste with a shallow bitterness in the back of the throat.
The freshness and the gaseous feeling is not so strong, but the weighty umami, which is balanced by the 21% alcohol content, is quite addictive and goes very well with the cold yellowtail sashimi (😋).
However, I was surprised that it still has a slight gaseous taste even after a year of aging.
For dessert, the proprietress made us a handmade "sea urchin rice ball" (🍙).
Good evening, Mr. Gyve 😃!
What's that 🤩 homemade uni mabushi onigiri 🍙👍 looks so good ✨I'm looking forward to what to drink as I'm going to Awara Onsen with my family on New Year's Day ✨.
Good evening, ichiro18!
I made onigiri because there was not much rice left, but my favorite is shirasu rice bowl 🥰I'm going to Ashihara Onsen tomorrow 🤣.
If you find it, please try "Shiratakesen"!