Would love to see them!
MrLapLap was in Fukuoka and Tokyo in February and brought a hoard of pantry ingredients and ready made products back to London - we already suspected that our April visit wouldn’t happen. Managed to get some cubes of stewing beef yesterday (first time we’d seen non-minced beef for sale in a couple of weeks), so tonight we’re having it with onions and mushrooms (I’ll sneak a bit of frozen spinach in there too) as Hayashi Rice. Our London “fusion” tip is to eat it with a side portion of pickled beetroot.
There’s a Samurai Gourmet 野武士のグルメepisode that revolves around Hayashi Rice and “captures” what it is quite well. The restaurant (Karuizawa) where it was filmed was near Okachimachi station in Tokyo and has since closed forever.
https://www.sbfoods-worldwide.com/pr...earch/054.html
Very unphotogenic though, not worth taking pictures. Takes a professional to capture the appeal!