the best green tea ever, in the room...
...made with these fantastic tea bags (looks like gyokuro if you ask me)...
...and water from this fantastic water heater, which keeps the water at the perfect temperature depending on what kind of green tea you're brewing. I want one of these so badly - but they're pricey and clunky and take up a huge amount of space. Plus they must use a good amount of energy as well, so probably not a good idea after all.
The buffet downstairs in the breakfast room - an embarrassment of riches. The weird looking green things with the mushy brown sauce on the angular plate in the middle are actually sweet green mochi with a sweet (red bean?) sauce, everything else is savory. Grilled sardines, pickled cabbage, pickled daikon, cucumbers, pickled ume plums, edamame, stir-fried veggies...
...fabulous smoked salmon, a pickled bean sprout salad, and just regular mixed salad with three fabulous dressings .
So we would find our way back to our table from the buffet? Which was all of 10 feet away? Or maybe to prevent others from sitting at our table? We were a little puzzled by the name tags everywhere, but they sure were pretty.
my plate - favorites were the salmon, the omelette, and the sweet green mochi
fresh noodle soup w/ wasabi and some fabulously silky tofu in broth, both great
two rice congee porridgey dishes, both kind of bland and gooey and not so favorite
great salad w/ miso dressing and miso soup (loved the salad for breakfast! Who needs French toast?)
a happy camper enjoying a good start into the day
fresh pomegranate juice
The damage we did. Ahem. It seems that after all the jetlag-induced instant ramen for breakfast in the first few days and then the hiking in the fresh mountain air and the soaking in the onsen, we just couldn't get enough. They must have thought us a bunch of barbarians.
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