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Recommendation of Italian restaurant in Fukui City “Cucina”

2016.11.02

Gourmet

Italian restaurants have increased in Fukui City but it seems like ones which adhere to the real taste of Italian dishes are still limited.

 

“Cucina” is a long standing Italian restaurant and you can enjoy authentic Italian cuisine there.

 

The taste’s secret might be that its chef and all the staff go to Italy every year state by state to learn its cuisine and culture. (H.S)

 


Inside the restaurant which has a quiet atmosphere

 


Seafood antipasto

 


Umbrian-style antipasto (for two people)　
*Umbria is in the middle Italy, where is rich in green, known for wine and food.

 


If you order Spaghetti Amatriciana, they will donate a part of the profits for the Amatrice Earthquake in August.

 


Sauteed porcini mushrooms with butter.
Porcini is in season now.

 


They showed us porcini mushrooms before cooking.
They are shipped by air from Italy.

 


Digestif “Nocello”(walnuts liqueur)
I tried it for the first time. It was so delicious.

 


The bottle of the Nocello

 


Dolce of pistachio. It was delicious too.
Speaking of pistachio, when I visited Sicily before, spaghetti with pistachio was so good and
I sometimes cooked it by imitating after I returned to Japan.

Whole pear tart from a cake shop in Fukui City, "FUJIMIDO"

2016.10.19

Gourmet

 

There is a cake shop, “FUJIMIDO” near our office. When I stopped by there, a big whole tart caught my attention and I had it with a cup of coffee. The name of the tart is “whole pear tart” as it looks. It is made with a big pear which is placed on a small tart. The pear was cored, there’s cream stuffed inside, the flower stalk is made with chocolate and the tiny leaf is made with a mint leaf.

 

In the showcase, next to the whole pear tarts, there were tarts which are filled with many muscat grapes. When I went into the shop a while ago, there were cakes made with peaches and figs. I feel the change of seasons from these fruits and I wonder what fruits will be served in winter.

 

"FUJIMIDO" is not only a good cake shop for their delicious cakes, it is also a convenient shop because they are open until eleven at night.

 

T.S

Recommendation of restaurant for lunch in Fukui “Koharu Biyori”

2016.09.14

Gourmet

I wanted to eat out for long lunch last weekend, so I went to a restaurant “Koharu Biyori “ which has recently become popular. When I got there, it was a big restaurant than I thought, and I am happy to find their parking lot was not narrow.

 


When you walk the entrance approach of a restaurant which you go for the first time,
you feel excited, don’t you? I feel excitement while walking.

 


Inside, there are white walls and antique-looking tables and chairs.

 


The windowsills and curtains are also nice. I am sure that women like such an atmosphere.

 


Wakasa beef (Fukui’s local beef) fillet steak set lunch. The beef was tender and good.

 


Fillet pork cutlet curry rice set lunch. You can fill up.

 


Petite dessert which you can add to your order.
They have several regular dessert menus but it was good enough as the lunch was hearty.

 


As you can see in the photo above, actually the restaurant is just next to a graveyard.
Although I didn’t know, there was a rumor that shops located close to graveyards
would prosper. So possibly, also this restaurant is popular because of the graveyard :) （H.S)

 

Remarks : “Koharu Biyori” means like Indian summer

Egg Foo Young of “Fukui Gen”

2016.09.13

Gourmet

 

The piture is Egg Foo Young of “Fukui Gen”, a Chinese restaurant located near the entrance of Katamachi area in downtown Fukui. It’s within 10 minutes walking distance of GEN's office.

 

I’m not sure if their Egg Foo Young is the real thing that people in China make but I often go there for my lunch. I like how they make it very simple and large at Fukui Gen.

This is 530yen. Plus a few hundred yen, I get a lunch combo which comes with a regular size of rice dish (or noodles), a small bowl of ramen noodle soup (or a small rice dish) for about 800 yen. I’ve had their lunch combo a few times before. It was very hard for me to eat all of it because their “small size” is as same as regular size at many other restaurants in Japan. Therefore, every time I go there now, I order anything a la carte but I still become full though.

 

 

（T.S）

Have you already eaten “Lumonde Ice Cream” ?

2016.09.04

Gourmet

“Sold only locally” …I believe I am not alone in feeling that the word is tempting.
Also, have I ever felt such superiority in living in Hokuriku region?
Because the Bourbon’s “Lumonde Ice Cream”, which has been become a big topic on the internet this summer, is sold in Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui Prefectures only.
(※Bourbon’s headquarters is in Niigata Prefecture)

 

In fact, the “Lumonde Ice Cream” is a test marketing product in the four prefectures in order to enter ice cream market for the first time for Bourbon.
So yes, I also immediately ate it! It is made of round wafer filled with vanilla ice cream and crisp Lumonde cookie is in the center. I wonder that an ice cream like this has never been before because the flavor was well-balanced. I also liked the BOURBON logos on the wafer.

 

Come to think of it, the president of a wholesaler of confectionery gave an interview
on TV that “What do you think the most delicious confectionery is?” “It is Lumonde.”
As I watched it, I felt I very much understood his answer.
I ate the Lumonde for the first time when I was in high school.
I remember I was amazed that there was such delicious confectionery!
The Lumonde has been sold since 1974 and the taste has not changed.

 

Unfortunately, the “Lumonde Ice Cream” has sold so well that they cannot ensure sufficient supply, and they have had to stop selling temporarily. (except Niigata Prefecture)
So if you want to eat the “Lumonde Ice Cream”, you should go to Niigata ;) (H.S)

 


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