Stuff I've eaten - Kyoto & Fukui

Kyoto station Sushi

Red bean bun

lemon cake

Red bean and mochi pancake

pumpkin donut

old fashioned dutch apple donut

a latte

Non starbucks breakfast hot dog

Sake tasting at Nijo

Chicken Karaage

flavored mochi, chestnut and sweet potato

One of the women at the language group had spent the morning at a class learning how to make mochi that looked like flowers.

Dinner with the language group at a restaurant that did a set meal with differing main portion.

Mel had fried chicken.

Frozen grape mochi

Marshmallow rabbit

rice crackers

the usual 7-11 snacks

pikachu donut

Mister Donut has a lot to answer for.

Autumn Ekiben

lemon cake

Cold Soba noodles done Fukui style at the dinosaur museum

A dinosaur excavation cake.
The test tubes represent things that cause erosion, water, air, plants, stone.
You put them on the cake and eat it. There is no dinosaur inside the cake.
This is because you ate the cake with a spoon and didn't delicately brush away the cake crumb by crumb, thus destroying the delicate fossil inside.

Mel is fond of a mobile game where you pour colored liquids in test tubes on top of each other, kind of like you're playing solitaire.

Dinner assembled from a few shops in a department store.

Including this biscoff dessert

And these three angry puddings.
Chestnut, Persimmon, and firm.

complimentary fridge cake from Dormy Inn

Starbucks breakfast

A bun with mushroom in it.

Ham and Edamame black sesame seed bun

"The Latte"
Filled with caramel - sugary nonsense.

Kyoto lemonade and crab ekiben

crab!

 

Stuff I saurus - Fukui edition.

After leaving Kyoto we had a brief stop in Fukui.
Fukui is most famous for having discovered some bones in a pit.
They are very chuffed with this and display some of them in the station.

It was a little rainy, but we caught a train to where the bus leaves for the Dinosaur Museum

The Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum is clearly just a way for the government to disguise the funds that it pours into the operating costs of their rainbow generator.

And what pray tell is your doctorate in Dr Raptor.
rainbowology?

The museum itself is spread over 3 floors.
You descend this escalator to the bottom and work your way back up.

This animatronic T-Rex was too big to check hotel guests in.

They have a selection of bones.

And animatronic stuff.

5 unique dinosaurs were found in the abandoned quarry out the back of the industrial plant.
They have very imaginative names. This is Fukuisaurus.  

This is Fukuiraptor. 

This is what scientists image Fukuiraptor might have looked like greeting hotel guests.

There was a display of rocks, most of which are destroyed to provide the colors for the rainbow generator.

The view from the 2nd floor looking down on the bones on the 1st floor.

A video about dinosaurs presented by the museum mascot,
which is some sort of weird bearded chestnut.

The second best thing in the gift shop is the dinosaur snow globes.

The best thing was the tape dispensers used to tape wrapping paper around gifts purchased in the shop.
Disappointingly they didn't seem to be available to buy.

Fukui station has animatronic models of the 5 Fukui dinosaurs out the front.

They don't all have Fukui in the name.
One is named Koshisaurus, Koshi being the old name for the area now known as Fukui.

Animatronic Fukuiraptor and Fukuisaurus showdown.

Fukui dinosaur mascots.

The Fukui Dinoheart as seen out the shinkansen tracks window.