Hello all! What's up?
I'm just back from the short trip to Arashiyama area of Kyoto,
one of my favorite places here, surrounded by mountains and rivers!
Me and my friends went over for lunch at a very famous Japanese restaurant, Hiranoya,
which is the picture above.
It's famous for its quality dishes( the mountain behind the restaurant is one of their properties, and many of the vegetables served there are cropped there.), and therefore, the price as well, is what you can't easily afford to. So even though I have known about the place since I moved to Kyoto, I thought it's the place only for high-class people.
But then, a friend of mine just told me that his dad actually did designing of their guest bathroom , and he knows quite well about the people there for years, and said he could take me there for lunch with the discount charge. Who could resist that offer??
It was very nice outside and a perfect day for a day trip!
This lady in a nice kimono in the photo welcomed us with a warm, charming smile.
(I love her hairstyle by the way!)
This is one of the appetizers. An assortment of seasonal farm products; sticky potato, butterbur flower stalk, bracken, and so on. They were amazingly delicious!!!!! Very delicately cooked and such soft texture! Surely it's good for digestion and your health!!
And we were served Tofu in a pot, tempura, cooked vegetable, rice, and dessert.
Almost no meat nor fish was included, still this lunch set costs about 10,000 JPY(110USD).
Believe it or not though, it's worth it.
Needless to say, none of these were artificially made. What surprised me most was that
they cook rice with a big iron pot like they did in old times.
One of the waitresses told us some guests say rice is the best dish here!
We were eating in this room, with a nice view of the pond garden with lovely red maple leaves..
You can actually walk there!
I can't say anything better about this place, IT IS THAT GOOD!
If you ever come to Japan, with your budget affordable(this is the most important),
this is the place you should go to.
People here don't speak good English, nor they have English menu, so you should bring someone
who understands Japanese.
Have a nice weekend....
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