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Travel from Hamamatsu into Kawaguchi is long enough coupled with the cold air and accompanied by fog and drizzle made hungry.  You can come to one of the local city searches restaurants in Shizuoka, which is very crowded, you have to wait about 15 minutes to enjoy a warm bowl of udon and other supplementary food.

The restaurant occupies the second floor, where on the first floor is a supermarket that sells a variety of vegetables, fresh fruits, pastries, snacks until souvenir such as postcards, dolls and cute little key chains and other trinkets.

You can use the stairs to get to the second floor. All visitors are given the same menu at a long table, which is fluffier rice, warm bowl of udon, and a plate of food contains fried shrimp, tempura vegetables, fish, vegetables and mochi cakes. Rice is sprinkled with a unique Japan seasoning spices is a very strong sense of fish taste.

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Many people in various parts of the world are praising the Japanese diet which said tasty and healthy. Viewed from the ingredient is certainly qualified for some common food was eaten fresh and simple processing.
For example, fish is eaten raw like sushi and sashimi. Now even beef can be eaten raw, just dipped to soyu then you can enjoy it. Vegetable and seaweed are also delicious eaten as is.

Cuisine of the descendants of the samurai was not cooked with a variety of seasonings. The basic seasonings are always used just salt, sugar, soyu, mirin, sake, sesame oil and seeds. Miso or fermented soybeans and wheat are the main ingredient of soup. Garlic and red barely used green onions instead of raw almost always present.

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