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I was really looking forward for their dinner menu. I booked the half board package in this stay, so breakfast and dinner are included. I totally recommend people to have this kinda experience while you're staying at a good ryokan. Where they normally serve a delicious meal accompanied with superb services.
As we stayed there for 2 nights, they served sukiyaki style dinner on the first night and another one as a shabu shabu or hot pot style dinner. While for kids, they had a slightly different menus to suit them better. Please see pictures below.
Dinner time needs to be reserved in advance. Once we arrived in the dining room, our appetizer was already ready and served.
My daughter was very excited when she got the food in front of her. Her dinner was served on a fancy car bowl. It has some spaghetti Bolognese with some chicken katsu, nuggets, a bowl of soup with sausages and completed with chocolate donut and fruits. They looked very appetising.
While for my older son, he got something called kids' kaiseki meal, the food was pretty much similar as my daughter's meal, but it came with some curry sauce and sashimi as well.
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| Deep fried sesame tofu, bite-sized rice malt bun, boiled taro, cooked ginkgo, kadaif |
We started with kaiseki dishes, all appetizers and entrees came in a bite-sized or small portions. Japanese people are really paying attention on timing. I can see that sometimes the waitress stealthily took a peek inside our dining room, so whenever we finish with one dish, they will serve us with another dish. They will always wait until we seem ready to have another dish, before serving the next dish.
This little fried stuff was beyond delicious. It said on the menu as a deep-fried fig with beef loin. I don't think it was a fig, more like a peach or something else to me. Beef was very tender, too tender actually until I can't really remember chewing it and all those wrapped inside a seaweed and coated with kinda crispy flour before then deep-fried. The sauce was a little salty and tangy. It was an amazing and clever tiny bite.
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| Creamy soup with Japanese leek |
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| Clam soup |
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| Japanese hot pot "Sukiyaki" of the beef and raw egg "Ranou" |
Now, come to the main meal. Sukiyaki is a Japanese style hot pot where you cook meat and vegetables in a sweet soy base sauce. They will normally give you a raw egg too, crack the egg into a bowl and lightly beat it. Once the meat is cooked to your liking, you can dip them into that beaten egg. It will give those tender marbled meats another level of lusciousness and richness.
By the way, Oita beef is a must-try while you were here. Their high-quality beef has earned them the same level of reputation as Hida beef or Kobe beef. The marbling texture in its Oita wagyu beef is so pronounced and you can see a clear white line of layer after layers of fat that when you cooked them properly, it just melts in your mouth.
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| Pickled Japanese radish, eggplant and seaweed |
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| Today's dessert - semifreddo |
We then ended the meal with a nice light semifreddo. We left with an extremely full yet happy tummy. It was definitely one great meal.
Stay tuned for the next blog still in Yufuin:
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