Good evening! Another short story on our day in the country!
Mari and Koichi took us to this interesting place that served Udon with hand made soba noodles!!
I got mine in a hot broth (as did Mari and Maureen) but Koichi had his cold.
When you eat them cold you just dip them into the side sauce as you go.
And you need to do lots of slurping! (They were SO GOOD)
The building was built by the owner and has many interesting features. Like the different natural colourings used on the walls.
The amazing slab of wood tabletop (ummm husband dearest… we have one of these in our carport… do you think you could…???)
The inner workings of the wall exposed.
And outside there was an example of each layer of the rendered wall from the inner structure on the right to the finished product on the left.
Out the back in a small bathhouse was an old iron bath!
Outside of the bathhouse was the fireplace where the bath was heated from! Usually the bath has a wooden rack at bottom…so you don’t burn yours! Actually a long time ago I got the chance to bathe in one of these! So nice!!
Woven slippers! Next project for me??
Better get to bed…big day planned in Osaka tomorrow!
Xxx.
