Chicken Sashimi 鶏刺身盛合わせ

We were looking for place for dinner in Nara. We found a place Yamato Shusai Shunbou (大和酒彩 しゅん坊). The restaurant received fresh chicken and vegetable every day from its suppliers. And hence, it was able to serve raw chicken sashimi. We had previously eaten very good chicken sashimi at Kyoto.

We ordered a plate of assorted chicken sashimi (鶏刺身盛合わせ), something like assorted fish sashimi. It was delicious, and you could taste the sweetness in the meat.

We also ordered our usual yakitori favourites. Grilled liver and soft bones (ミックス軟骨炙り焼き).

There was also a special recommendation of male and female chicken wings (手羽炙り焼きオス/メス) . Noticed the difference in sizes.

We ordered some local sakes to go with the food. Chicken sashimi is definitely a dish that I would recommend to people who don't mind raw food.

Website: https://hitosara.com/0006118032/
Tabelog: https://tabelog.com/nara/A2901/A290101/29010390/

Nara Sake 奈良地酒

It was late afternoon, and time to look for a happy hour drinking place. We walked around the Kintetsu Nara station, and chanced upon this shop with sake barrels at the door. We walked around further before turning back to this izakaya.

This place 奈良の酒蔵全部呑み has sakes from 30 breweries in Nara. Where else to better try local sakes 地酒. There was a menu of the sakes, or you could just look at the fridge. There tasting came in 3 sizes - 50ml, 100ml and 130ml.

The staff would take your order. Fetch the big standard 1.8ml bottles in the cart (3 of them below), and pour before you.

We had quite a few tastings. Below were just 3 of them.

There was light finger food as well. Nice izayaka for Nara sakes.



Website: http://www.happoh.com/
Tabelog: https://tabelog.com/nara/A2901/A290101/29010648/

Yoshino Honkuzuten Gokudo 吉野本葛天極堂

Yoshino Honkuzuten Gokudo (吉野本葛天極堂奈良本店) in Nara was a shop specialising in Kudzu. What is Kudzu? In Singapore, sometime we take 葛根汤 when we had a cold. It is actually a kind of plant in the pea family.

We were looking for some different variety of food in Nara. After our visit to Todaiji (東大寺), we came here for lunch. We went up to the upper floor. We were the only one at that time and we chose the window table. There was English menu available. We chose a big set and a few ala carte items for tasting.

The main highlight would be the Kudzu noodle (葛きり) that was served cold. The noodle was translucent and light. 美味しい!

The set came with other items including a kudzu udon (釜揚げ葛うどん ) and rice (季節のご飯).

There were desserts made with kudzu. One of them was this mochi. The light texture really made this delicious (ぷるぷる). I preferred this to the usual sticky kind of mochi.

There was a retail shop at the entrance. We bought home some kudzu udon and mochi.


Website: https://www.kudzu.co.jp/
Tabelog: https://tabelog.com/nara/A2901/A290101/29000438/