{"id":85297,"date":"2017-11-29T08:02:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T23:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=85297"},"modified":"2017-11-29T08:02:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T23:02:10","slug":"a-chilly-day-in-wakayama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=85297","title":{"rendered":"A Chilly Day in Wakayama&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85309\" \/><\/p>\n<p>got up early because of jet lag.  so took a nice sunrise walk in the freezing cold temperatures.  i couldn&#8217;t feel my hands!!  but it was beautiful!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8958.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85312\" \/><\/p>\n<p>took a stroll down to the harbor.  i just love checking out the local fishing culture here.  checked out the waves too but it was flat just like this.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8952.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85311\" \/><\/p>\n<p>went by Kaisers to say hi to Te-chan.  but i forget he&#8217;s still in Hawaii.  feels so weird that he&#8217;s there and i&#8217;m here.  he must love Hawaii as much as i love Japan.  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8915.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85307\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Japanese food fascinates me.  the presentation is amazing.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8916.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85308\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the best chawanmushi ever!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8918.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85299\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this fish was swimming 10 minutes earlier.  how can fresh get any fresher than this?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8914.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85302\" \/><\/p>\n<p>raw oysters!  yeah!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8931.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85303\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this fish head soup was delicious!  went good with the matsutake mushrooms.  and good with a cold beer to.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8943-e1511901708337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85304\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kimura-san displaying some of Wakayama&#8217;s hidden secrets.  i don&#8217;t even know what you call this?  but it was so sweet!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8945.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85305\" \/><\/p>\n<p>sweet shrimp with eggs?  what ever it was, it was super good.  i totally forgot about my shrimp allergy and ate one.  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8949-e1511901691956.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85306\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ushio Master is the master of food.  i&#8217;ve been coming here for the past 20 years and it only gets better and better!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_8946.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>sipping between USA and Japan.  both i love so much!  cheers to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>got up early because of jet lag. so took a nice sunrise walk in the freezing cold temperatures. i couldn&#8217;t feel my hands!! but it was beautiful! took a stroll down to the harbor. i just love checking out the local fishing culture here. checked out the waves too but it was flat just like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}