Donguri is an okonomiyaki chain restaurant famous in Kyoto. The price is reasonable, costing only about 2500yen when you eat full and drink. The food taste good too. They will cook the okonomiyaki for you so beginners in okonomiyaki can enjoy as well. There are many kinds of okonomiyaki too.

The meal that needs to be cooked takes some time so I ordered three tastes pickled cucumber first. The left is salt, far back is spicy, and the right is mayonnaise. I recommend the salt.

Tonpeiyaki (pork grill with egg). A delicious meal with pork, green onion, egg, and sauce. The soft egg and juicy pork is good.

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Kyoto City Night view from Kiyomizudera.

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Senmonten is a gyoza restaurant. The size of the gyoza is smaller than other restaurants’ so women can eat it in one bite. Note the crunchy wrapping. The Gyoza are hand made and the cook are making them when they find some time. The person who cook the gyoza is watching TV if there are no order. It is a restaurant with a very comfy atmosphere.
You can just have the gyoza with alcohol or order rice and eat until you get full. The price is reasonable so there is no need to hesitate.

Pickled cucumber. It is good to order them so there is something to eat while waiting for the gyoza to be cooked or it can be eaten last with rice.

Crunchy wrapping and juicy filling. There are two types of gyoza, regular and tofu gyoza. You can order from five pieces but you can eat twenty of them easily.

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“Temple of the Silver Pavilion,” is a Zen temple in the Sakyo ward of Kyoto.

The Philosopher’s Walk is a pedestrian path that follows a cherry-tree-lined canal in Kyoto.

A famous ramen store in Kyoto that ranks in the top of Best Ramen ranking. The store is located near the Kyoto station, where it is easy to go. The store next door is also a ramen shop. Both restaurants make long line of people. Inside Shinpukusai-kan is a little bit dirty. The people at the store are in high spirit and are friendly. Maybe that is because its Kansai area?

The soup is chicken stock. It is hard to imagine from the black soup but surprisingly the taste of it is rather old-fashioned. The chicken flavor is doing its job. Burned soy sauce is the secret to the black color. The flavor has bitterness and saltiness.

As you can see from the picture, there is not much oil in the soup. One bowl is a combination of rich taste of soy sauce, saltiness, chicken stock, green onion that neutralizes the soup, and straight noodle. Since the ramen noodle absorbed some of the soup, it has become noodle with flavor.

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