Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Imahan Sukiyaki

We were looking for a place to eat lunch at JR Hakata City in Fukuoka, when the sister spotted Ningyocho Imahan on the 9th floor of AMU Plaza, the shopping centre right above the JR Hakata station. She had been several times to the Imahan restaurants in Tokyo, and with her recommendations, we knew it would be an amazing meal. And we weren't disappointed. 

The name of the restaurant in Japanese script is on the napkins.

The lunch menu - we went for the lunch sukiyaki set at the bottom of the page

A little bit of beer helps the beef go down

Out came the beef slicest - check out the marbling

And the accompanying veggies

The entire visual feast on the table

First the waitress poured the sweet sauce on to the hot plate

Then added the beef slices one by one

A close-up...it smelt heavenly

Just bordering on well done, dipped in raw egg. Amazing texture and flavour.

Followed by negi

And the rest of the vegetables, following a certain sequence which we obviously had no idea about

There were pickles on the side which were obviously very unexciting compared to the beef

Another round of beef with leek

There was a piece of mochi that had an amazing texture - no idea how they got the rice cake so fine

After all the raw stuff was cooked and eaten, the waitress threw a few beaten eggs onto the pan

And made scrambled eggs with the leftover sauce absorbing all the juices

On top of plain rice. Awesome.

And finally, dessert - fruit and sorbet.

One of our best meals of the trip.

This website gives you the location of all the Imahan restaurants around Japan: http://www.imahan.com/index-e.html
 

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