Kyoto- my longest shopping experience Day 6

Today's itinerary is to visit the famous Nishikikoji street market of Kyoto. Then try out the legendary kaiseki for dinner. Well, nothing went according to plan, which is alright because we got found something much better in the end. :D

Day 6

We went to Takashimaya's basement for breakfast. You won't believe the variety. Singapore's version is only one-tenth of the one in Kyoto. My mum and I bought little bentos. My anti-japanese food cousin slept on the chair.

My cousin's breakfast at Lipton along Shijo street: seafood marinara.
My eleven-tea at Lipton: Waffles with strawberries and cream. Waffles here are heaven. How the hell do they make it so soft and yet retain the subtle crunchiness of the skin?
My mum's eleven-tea at Lipton: berries pie.
Cake galore.See the little bags we're carrying? Shopping bags!
At long last, we've made it to Nishiki Market with many shopping distrations on the way. Tsukemono- pickled vegetable.

All sorts of beans. Japanese pickle beans too.

Flower shop!

Luncheon Time!

Curry udon for my mum.

Zaru udon for me. Did I mention I fell in love with udon?

Visit this stall when you visit...

They serve excellent grilled oyster.

After the very lengthy walk in Nishikikoji, we took a bus down to Gion and hopefully we can see a geisha.

So we walked,

and we walked,

and we ain't see no geisha.

Then we chanced upon this little shrine. See this big stone covered with paper? Legend said that if you can squeeze through the hole, you'll get a good marriage. I managed. :D

For dinner, we found this quaint little wooden house that serve nepalese food. haha. We didn't actually have much of a choice since many shops are closed for the spring equinox holiday. The food was pretty good.

Rice with dahl, chicken curry, fried prawn cake and salad.

Nepalese fried rice with salad.

Strawberry cake topped with home-made strawberry jam. Absolutely delicious.

Chai tea. Yumiko-san made it from scratch. She said she had to boil cardamon, cinamom, cloves, anise seeds and pepper together first before adding the milk. (i hope i remember it correctly)

Owner of the restaurant: Yumiko-san. She is married to a Nepalese who i think is very rich because other than this restaurant, they also own a breakfast and bed place in Kyoto. Plus she had this really expensive sound system, the size of a piano, playing in the restaurant.
Everything is wooden. Check it out.


In the restaurant, we met a kind friend of yumiko-san, kikuko-san, who volunteered to bring us all the way up the kiyomizu-dera. We walked almost 2km to get there, which means another 2km back to the ryokan. Japanese, and i mean only the older generation, are very hospitable people. They go all out to help you. Anyway, we made another friend. :)
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