ふみおとダニエラ aka 美女と野獣 D&D. Dobu and Daniela.

みつるとふみお

なんか「タクシー・ドライバー」のロバートデニロ（左）とフィリピンヤクザ（右）のようであるでしょうか？

‘You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?’ Mitsuru ‘Travis’ Nakamura and Signor Doburoni ponder matters philosophical and artistic.

ニノとダニエラ Nino and Daniela.

サシャ La Mia Bella Sasha

Se non è vero, è ben trovato

Sasha and I drive down to Karahashi in Minami Ku just to eat at this place on Kujo-dori.Their Chahan fried rice is great too. 懐かしい味です、超美味しい！　中華そば６００円お薦めである。ちゃはんもおいしいです。

Home-made garlic in shoyu, a by-product of their dashi stock making. You can put it into the Ramen, or eat it by itself. I did both.　

自家製醤油にんにくです。

Chuka soba, not at all heavy, but with depth.　あさり系中華そばです。

Great noodles ‘al dente’. 歯応えのある麺。

Sasha in action. she doesn’t like this picture but I think she looks cute.　Sashaはかわいいでしょう！（本人はこの写真きらいみたいよ～）

中華そば　あさの

TEL 075-661-2490

住所 京都府京都市南区唐橋堂ノ前町49

営業時間 11:00～22:00

定休日 金曜日

Chuka Soba Asano

TEL 075-661-2490

Kyoto Shi, Minami Ku, Karahashi Donomae Cho 49

Opening Hours: 11am to 10pm

Closed Friday

Map is here: http://r.tabelog.com/kyoto/A2606/A260604/26009069/dtlmap/

熊を始めとする全ての毛深いアニマル、または種々の未開人よ、ようこそ！これぞ皆の居場所だ！　Hairy animals and assorted barbarians welcome

ユージュアル・サスペクツ 映画を見た人なら分かるはず。The Usual Suspects. 左から：ルーツはマレーシアペナン島その後世界放浪成れの果て；ウラヌス13；裏磐梯；天国；生き地獄 The bloke on the right did it, by the way. And then, he was gong. I mean blong. No, I mean gone…

左は超シリアスなイギリス人客、右はちょっとおかしいタイ人スタッフでしょうか？バイト初日なのに。。

Uptight over-serious British customer on the left; bonkers Thai staff member on the right. Erm, well actually not. Ni-chan is a Thai staff member but she’s not bonkers. As far as we know.

安全時間 The safest time to be in Dell’ Orso?

左は日本人料理人、右はイタリアのマフィア親分でしょうか？（本当に最近来たお客さんでステファノを日本人と、（これで３回目らしい）サシャをイタリア人と思った人がいたらしい) Japanese chef on left; Italian mafioso on right.

Yum-yum!

Yum-yum-yum!

Actually, it is fantastic. Check out the Ranmaru master’s blog: http://ranmaru3.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2009/02/post-c672.html

And that man knows his food.　実は素晴らしいお店ですと思う。らんまる師匠のブログの評論是非観て下さいませ

Ditto Michael Lambe’s ‘Deep Kyoto’ site:

http://www.deepkyoto.com/?tag=photography　DEEP京都のマイケルさんのも

天狗食堂

電話 非公開

京都府京都市左京区田中西大久保町

営業時間 １０時～１６時

定休日 火曜日

Tengu Shokudo in Moto-Tanaka, facing on to Higashioji-Dori (across from Didi’s) has to have the best value for money Chuka Soba in Kyoto. Just 450 yen, and it rocks. No matter how often I eat this, I never get bored of it. Sign of good work, methinks. 中華そば４５０円です。美味しくて超お買い得品だぞ～！何回も食べてもぜんぜん飽きません。天狗食堂の料理人はええ仕事するだんべ～！

Tastes pretty fine! Seasoned with nutmeg.　Oh, and with my own chicken stock.

美味しいだんべ～！奥の手はナツメグです。それと広島生産地鶏の鶏ガラスープ

Pho (ベトナム風うどん)バリバリ美味しいですよ！Ye Gods, it was good. And I couldn’t complain about the price, about 30 yen (which, by the way, is about 3 million bazillion lao kip).

この子はばりばりかわいいでしたよ！”OK, so the surroundings ain’t palatial, but I ain’t got no complaints about the grub, ya know”.

Cats needs snacks too, you know. Also behind Khaosan Road.

Who would have thought elephants could swim like this?

In Bangkok, in one of the alleyways that runs parallel with Khaosan Road. I have photographed this wall a number of times over the years, watching it slowly change.

Alas not all the change has been for the better. The scrawled graffiti on the photo below means ‘the Great Japanese’…

Not Japan’s finest moment, I feel.

私は何年前からこの壁の写真を撮っています。だんだん壁がかわりました。残念、あまり良くないかわることもありました。☹ 自分も日本永住しますので、ちょっと恥ずかしいです。下写真参照。

Daruma awaiting eyeballs.目玉まち。

This fox slips out at might to play.かごの白狐。

大阪府、能勢の地酒「秋鹿」です。This was in Nose, Osaka Prefecture, at the Akishika brewery. Great sake.

An unassuming little place on Ohara-Michi. I had the Akamiso Ramen.

赤みそラーメンと野菜炒め

Sasha opted for the Chahan and Yasai-itame.

Sashaとちゃーはん

Alas the soup was not up to full strength today. Usually it’s excellent tho’.

This is what I do in my spare time. When I am not eating noodles.

http://f.hatena.ne.jp/tools/flvplayer_s.swf

Sunaba was the first Soba shop to serve tempura soba, apparently. Before them, the buckwheat noodles and the tempura were served separately. The Sunaba ‘tsuyu’ sauce is unusually smoky and strong. Not everyone’s cup of tea, but I love it personally.

砂場は天婦羅そばの発明所です。このつゆは凄く濃いです。関東のあじでしょう。

http://r.gnavi.co.jp/g212300/

Dashimaki is pretty damn good too.

My favourite, in Nishi Asakusa, Tokyo. Raishuken. 懐かしいの味です。ちじり麺最高！

http://www.raisyuken.co.jp/ramen%20gazou.html

これも美味しいだんべ～！My friend Yuko said that I look like a cat eating a mouse. 猫が獲物をたべる顔ですて！