Ruminations from the Silver Muse.

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More non seafood stalls. Fruit is often larger in Japan such as these pears.








sweet potato crisps.

and large prawns.

 

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And sea urchin. I do like this.




Plenty of stalls where you can eat. Toss another scallop on the barbie.


Or a stick of strawberries.

 

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Quick cooking method.






Tatoyaki in production.

 

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little crabs.


And an outsider place.


And the dearest Kobe beef - 11.8 Kg so nearly $A6000 for this piece.

A typical small Japanese eating place.

 

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Now back on the bus to the temple. up in the mountains and over an hours ride. Passed a place we ate crab suikiyaki at on our second visit to Osaka.


And over the Dotonbori canal. The area is a great place to eat. We were told 2500 restaurants in the square kilometre around here.


And some more pictures from the bus.




Lots of bamboo around here.


With rice paddies or veggies taking up every space between houses.

 

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We had lunch in Kaiseki on Tuesday. The rolls are prepared as we watched them being made.


My selection. good to see the sea urchin back.


The always happy Roberto.


Soon after lunch we set sail for Osaka.

Just an observation from your foodie photos and my experiences on both Celebrity and Viking, it seems the dish that all cruise lines seem to get perfectly right is the Sushi/sashimi selection. And I don't like the stuff. But you can see it being prepared from beautiful seafood.

 

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Fortunately sushi or sashimi are one of our favourite lunches. But there are many Americans who declare that the sushi on cruise line X is lousy as they use frozen fish unlike line Y who use fresh fish. Shows their ignorance as every cruise line uses frozen fish.

 

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I love tako yaki!!!!

 

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Fortunately sushi or sashimi are one of our favourite lunches. But there are many Americans who declare that the sushi on cruise line X is lousy as they use frozen fish unlike line Y who use frozen fish. Shows their ignorance as every cruise line uses frozen fish.

Guessing the logistics of keeping fresh fish that are caught in a far off location from where the ship is currently located has completely escaped them. Assuming of course that they buy the fish fresh and which, unless to be cooked that day, won't happen.

 

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Though to be fair I have had fresh fish on 3 vessels. 8 people boat in Alaska where everyone was allowed to catch 2 halibut a day plus salmon. The crew always had a crab pot out so fresh Dungeness crab as well.
Second on a 16 person boat in the Galapagos where the captain would unexpectedly find a fishing vessel and bought fresh fish and lobster.

The third was on the Silver Explorer but only if chef Pia was on. If everyone was out on excursions she would get the crew to fish off the back of the ship. In Vanuatu she managed to acquire enough coconut crabs for 2 days meals.

 

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Though to be fair I have had fresh fish on 3 vessels. 8 people boat in Alaska where everyone was allowed to catch 2 halibut a day plus salmon. The crew always had a crab pot out so fresh Dungeness crab as well.
Second on a 16 person boat in the Galapagos where the captain would unexpectedly find a fishing vessel and bought fresh fish and lobster.

The third was on the Silver Explorer but only if chef Pia was on. If everyone was out on excursions she would get the crew to fish off the back of the ship. In Vanuatu she managed to acquire enough coconut crabs for 2 days meals.

And we had fresh fish on the old SS PA2 in Iceland - chef's specialty.

 

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Now to the temple.

 

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As there were a lot of stairs i had gone ahead of the group. but I could still hear the guide through the audio system Was good as i wasn't left behind and less people where i was.

 

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A really beautiful and peaceful place.



Good views to Osaka.


A cemetery beside the property.

 

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How did they get the little dolls in these places?