Oden is one of typical & traditional winter food.
One of the best places to get nice & cheap oden nowadays is convenience store. Why? Because they open 24 hours and 7 days a week, so everything is slowly cooked for a long time. Perfect.

This time, my sister took us to a posh oden restaurant. The idea came from one of Kaiseki restaurants in Kyoto. For several years having worked as a main chef for oden department, he decided to come to challenge in Kumamoto, probably the toughest competing place (food wise) in Kyushu.
How can oden be posh?


Ready to eat !!




Ah, daikon (white raddish)... Beautiful!!






I see. Everything was served in a elegant manner. But oden is oden, I loved them all.

After oden, my sister insisted to drop by one of her friends' restaurant (surprise, surprise…)


Shimeji (mashroom) salad


Katuso no tataki (seared bonito). Regrettably, the fish was slightly over cooked as you can see.


Sardine sashimi Wonderful.

To be continued (I hope you are not getting tired with food photos, yet)…