So that's our first day in Fukuoka. After a 4hour bus ride from Hiroshima.. Was told it took 5 hours. but we were early. that ramen we had is Fukuoka styled. Fukuoka is more often referred to as Hakata. Small city but is livlier than Hiroshima.
That's our new lodgings. A hostel called Khao San Fukuoka. The twin room (2600yen - S$34) was tiny. Its more like a single room with a bunk bed. Very claustrophobic. This place didn't give me a good impression when i first arrived. The moment u stepped into the place, the pungent smell of shoes hit, very badly. At the entrance are 2 shoe racks, about 2 metres tall each, and the ventilation on the first floor is only through the door. So whenever the doors are closed, the smell gathers, and concentrates.. And then when someone opens the door, all the evil particles start attacking them. AuckkkS! Awful, and so lesson learnt, everytime i'm going near, i hold my breath. Slowly, it becomes less of a problem. Staff here are friendly and very helpful. So that's a good balance. Now we switched to the dorms (2400yen per nite) but i feel betta as it's not so squeezy inside. The lounge area here is not bad. usually crowded too so that's good for interaction.
Will be stayin' here until we leave onthe 27th June bound for Seoul. And spend 6 nights there before flyin' back to Singapore on Asiana Airlines.
More Ramen at another shop in Nakasu street. They make the broth only when u order, and the one we had was butter ramen. Then there was a huge Mikoshi that we found accidentally, like 8metres tall. A festival is coming up soon. This is a massive festival as we interpretted frm the poster.
An interesting building name: "Eeny Meny Miny Mo" like when witches say before casting spells. For dinner, we headed to the supermart juz before it closed! Reached at 735pm just nice for the discount sushis! Still fresh stuff! Chose a huge chunk of salmon sashimi and the staff sliced it up and garnished it for us. And then a few shots of the river near Canal City, a large shopping mall with a canal running thru it.
Famous here is the Yatai, or street foodstalls. I think they only have it in Fukuoka, selling things like fried skewers of meat, scallops, seafood, veges and mushroms. Some also sell ramen and dons.. That nite, i only went for some skewered pork. Very delicious, oily and sinful.. 100yen (S$1.3) each. The next night we finally sat down for some Yatai, which costed alot!
And this is the night after, when we settled for some Yatai! Lotsa locals having their post work entertainment there. We had some grilled scallops, beef and mushrooms which costed 2200yen (S$30)! Over priced.. delicious no doubt. The beef was superbly done, tender, slightly bloody and very juicy.. for 1100yen each, we could easily have a full sushi set meal each in a restaurant! Just for the experience.. no more yatais.
After which, we walked thru a red-light district, near to the Yatai area.. not much business it seems. Very quiet streets.. And there was one building that stood out.
Stuart back from a day out to Beppuuuuu, hot springs town of Japan.
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