So after lots of napping and resting we decided to actually leave the inn for the first time today and go out to dinner at Nakama again (same place from our first night) and try their signature dish – ramen! Unfortunately it is New Year’s Day so they were closed. Boo!
Instead, the inn recommended we try Aji no tokedai which is a noodle house near Kutchan with the added advantage of being next to a supermarket so I could grab some snacks.
This was my first go at sitting in the traditional style and I did pretty well….until my foot went completely numb and I had to jiggle around like a ninny. B failed miserably and I spent about half the meal laughing at him awkwardly trying to not fall on the floor or kick over the table. He was also wearing jeans which didn’t help!
I had Japanese pork ramen with miso and it looked (and tasted) delicious.
B had chilli ramen but not too spicy and that looked really good as well, we also split some dumplings. I love dumplings. I could live solely off dumplings.
After dinner we walked over the the Max Valu supermarket and attempted to work out what Japanese foods were what. As you can see our shopping basket was full of amazingly healthy things…..
Early night tonight in preparation for a full day back on the snow tomorrow!! Hope you all had a wonderful first day of 2014 🙂
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Thanks so much for photos loving them :0 and passing them onto greg tommorow as just got home from a geo caching event .take care and enjoy anddddddd Be Safe x
Always safe! 🙂 will tell B you are showing them to his dad xo
can u send the one of brad kneeling in the snow again please arghh cant find it now
Will email it through now 🙂 plus another one of him last night looking silly haha