irifune

The rain has been coming down since the early morning, last night I was awoken by the awful humidity. It felt like someone turned the oven on and stuck us in there....blah!

Since Satoshi is off today, we decided to go to Irifune, a cute little soba (buckwheat noodle) shop in our shopping arcade. I've written about this shop before, here.

Summertime brings the cold version of noodles. The soup or broth that the noodles are served in are icy cold. And although the rain was coming down, I wanted to eat the shop's kisetsu gentei (season limited) item, ume oroshi soba. (I've heard that most people in Osaka are weak for anything that is limited editioned or maybe it was the Japanese in general.)

Ume is pickled plum (the big red thing on top), it is soft and very sour, makes every part of your mouth pucker. Oroshi is finely grated daikon (long white radish), depending on what part of the daikon you use to grate can depend on the spiciness of the oroshi. If you use the bottom half it is more spicy than the top, this is because the top half gets all the love from the sun. Most shops use the bottom portion of the daikon to get their oroshi really spicy.

Hopefully the rain will stop so that we can get out and about tomorrow.