No doubt about it - food in Kyoto is the best of Japan. I believe this is part of the reason I love Kyoto so much. Though I didn't get to much, wagashi (Japanese sweets) like anko, macha, cherry-blossom flavoured mochi are popular souvenirs amongst Japanese travellers. For dining, I suggest hitting up a restaurant that serves traditional Japanese food, like we did.
Yuba-don (anything stuck to the word 'don' means it's served on rice). Yuba is paper-thin tofu, silky and smooth. It is amongst the tastiest and one of the more famous ingredients of Kyoto. Served on top of rice, biting down a spoonful makes you oohh after some tiring sight-seeing.
Meals are served with a variety of nibblers like preserved radish/kelp/plum (umeboshi), soup, rice, tempura, the list goes on. Ain't the little flowery designs cute!
The menu on display in 3D! Plastic food is a common way for Japanese restaurants to show how appetising their menu is. On top of that, it makes it much more easy for foreigners to identify what they want to eat ;).
Also located in the station, is this wonderful modern Japanese/French cafe called Malebranche. We stopped by in need of something sweet before I headed home.
Clean, crisp & crafty interior!
Really straight macha (green tea powder) mixed with water. Intense flavour, but not the intended order. My friend wanted it with milk, and unfortunately I do believe it would have tasted better with it.
Macha cake soft serve. A macha soft serve topped with moorish macha cookie pieces. This was so damn good! There was a nice good cool creaminess with a lovely lovely lovelyyyy macha taste. Not to mention classy presentation! Kyoto is the bomb for some good ol' macha.
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