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What is the hage fish that represents Kyoto?
Kyoto still has traditional greengrocers. About a 10-minute walk south from our guesthouse is Toba Ume Shoten, a greengrocer that also sells takoyaki. Known as Kyoto's cheapest takoyaki shop, it's also a greengrocer offering delicious sashimi and vegetables delivered straight from the market. Today's sashimi is hage fish. When I first came to Kyoto, I was surprised to hear it called hage. Because in Japan, the term “hage (bald)” can also be a derogatory term referring to someone who has completely lost all their hair. In the Kansai region, “Hage” refers to Kawahagi (thread-sail filefish). The name comes from how its…
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Nakō: One of the best family-run neighborhood Chinese restaurants in Kyoto
Kyoto is home to the flagship stores of renowned Japanese Chinese restaurant chains such as Gyoza no Ohsho and Tenka Ippin, but it also boasts numerous locally rooted, family-run Chinese eateries known as machi-chuka.Nakō, located near the Eiden railway line just under a fifteen-minute walk from our guesthouse, is my favourite local Chinese restaurant.The daily lunch special is generously portioned, but the real favourite is the champon.Chanpon is a word meaning “to mix various things, or the mixture itself”, and also the name of such a dish. While the version from Nagasaki is particularly famous, in Kyoto, chanpon refers to…
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