Fugu-rific
Hooray for more time on the Shinkansen. Today is our travel day to Hiroshima, so not as much in this post on activities, but still, many tasty things to share. Having a lazy morning is always a nice thing to do during a vacation.
Before departing for Hiroshima, we had a tasty breakfast in Dotonbori at Zuboraya. This is a chain that specializes in fugu. With this being my first time having fugu, I was quite excited for the meal. Turns out it’s quite tasty, especially with ponzu sauce.
Lovely art of the soon to be food Vegetable salad, fugu skin in aspic, and kumquat in honey Salad Fugu and milt Fugu nabe and grilled fugu Egg with fugu Fugu, mushroom, and shishito tempura Fugu sushi and honeydew Friends’ fugu set Friends’ fugu set: tempura Friends’ fugu set: sushi (not pictured is the nabe set, same as mine) Friends’ fugu set in menu 
My splurge on fugu!
Since we still had some time to kill, we looked for a dessert place, and found a pancake place a few buildings down from Zuboraya, the Honolulu Coffee cafe. We got some pancakes and donuts.
Donut with lots of sugar! Kona Coffee Cream Pancake Fruit pancake!
After a comfortable nap on the Shinkansen to Hiroshima, we hopped on the local tram (“doa ga shimarimasu” will be burned into your head after this tram, if it hasn’t been already) to get to our hotel, which really is a glorified AirBnB. We stopped by the local laundrymat and did laundry. 1300 Yen and an hour later in one machine, we were done, washed and dried. (Wouldn’t surprise me if in the future, it would fold your clothes). Also managed to get in several games of extreme spoons.
Dinner was a very local place, around the corner at an Indonesian place named Warung Matahari.
White Asparagus and Crab Soup Tempeh with Special Sauce Bali Meatball Soup Rice Noodle w/ Vegetables Meatball from the soup with surprise egg inside Chicken curry with Toast Bali Curry with Vegetables and Toast
Slim activity day, but just as filling on the food. We’re turning in a bit earlier as we have to get moving earlier to get to Manabeshima Island…which if you don’t know what is there, stay tuned for tomorrow’s post. ‘Til then, we bid you a good night.