{"id":57721,"date":"2020-01-15T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/?p=57721"},"modified":"2020-07-22T23:52:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T14:52:45","slug":"cultural-culinary-fusion-nagasaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/cultural-culinary-fusion-nagasaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural and Culinary Fusion in Nagasaki"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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At the height of the Fall season, I recently had the pleasure of visiting the beautiful southern port city of Nagasaki <\/strong>for two days of culinary and historical exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nagasaki served as the sole gateway between the Western world and Japan during two centuries of isolation beginning in the early 1600s and the fusion and harmonization between European cultures and traditional Japanese that resulted give this region a charm and aesthetic quite unlike anywhere else in this country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Traditional Japanese cooking meets European ingredients at Yamanotera Yukyo <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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My first stop during my trip was to visit a traditional Japanese restaurant located deep in the mountains outside of Nagasaki City called Yamanotera Yukyo<\/strong><\/a>. This restaurant had some incredible mountain views from its window-side tables that looked out into rich forests in full autumn colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite its ultra-traditional design and feel, this restaurant featured some surprising dishes that I had never seen in a restaurant like this. The hotpot that they served us over the central grill built into our table featured cresson, a French herb grown in their own gardens. Its light, fresh, and crisp texture paired wonderfully with the tsukune<\/em> chicken and thin somen<\/em> noodles that they produce by hand in this restaurant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The owners here pride themselves in sourcing their ingredients as local as possible<\/strong> and just like the cresson, much of what is served at Yamanotera Yukyo is harvested directly outside the restaurant in the rich forests that surround it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    It is a bit of a journey to get here and you will either need a rental car or to take a taxi. However, it is a lovely mountain restaurant with some fantastic food that is well worth the excursion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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