{"id":689,"date":"2023-07-23T10:52:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T09:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braveorfoolhardy.com\/?p=689"},"modified":"2023-07-23T11:00:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T10:00:49","slug":"day-8-kyoto-zen-and-the-art-of-japanese-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braveorfoolhardy.com\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Day 8 – Kyoto – Zen and the art of Japanese cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We had two main items on the agenda today. A walking tour around the Sakyo ward of Kyoto including the silver temple and a cooking class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had huge fun *sarcasm* getting around by bus today. This is easy if you are in the know and another steep learning curve if you don\u2019t. You need the right money or an IC contactless card. We haven\u2019t charged ours up so we were using cash today. It had to be exactly 230 Yen but we used all our exact money yesterday. So you have to get on boldly and when the bus isn\u2019t moving, but before you are due to get off you have to move past everyone and use a change machine under the fare machine next to the driver. It gives you two sets of adult fare per 500 yen coin so you need to change 3 per trip when there are 5 of you. Handfuls of change distributed, we continued our 19 stop journey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The philosopher\u2019s path was worth the wait though and when we did trek up to the silver temple the groomed zen sand gardens and bonsai and moss woods were breathtaking. I took loads of photos on the big camera and will pop some here. Really sweltering though today, super humid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The afternoon was spent cooking at Sun Cooking<\/a> school. What a lovely bunch that run the classes. The ladies were so friendly, helpful and informative. They were genuinely interested in where we have been and what food we had tried. We learned how to make dashi and teriyaki, how to make minced chicken meatballs, marinated cucumber, pumpkin soup and soy sweet sorbet among other things. The food was fab, the explanation clear and concise, and the ambiance just a lot more relaxing than I was bargaining for. My hot head melted into the experience and I could have stayed there all day even without the Sake! This would be on my top 5 things to do in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We had two main items on the agenda today. A walking tour around the Sakyo ward of Kyoto including the silver temple and a cooking class. We had huge fun *sarcasm* getting around by bus today. This is easy if you are in the know and another steep learning curve if you don\u2019t. You need … <\/p>\n

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