Tastebud : Matcha Ya

10 October 2024

Today's dinner is at Matcha Ya, a Japanese restaurant. I enjoyed my miso ramen (with pork) SEK139, and had a temaki shrimp SEK49. The rice in the temaki shrimp was sort of dry and not sticky enough and I did not really enjoy it. I had a good portion in my ramen. There was not much pork, though. My friend had unadon which is steamed rice with grilled eel (unagi) and egg SEK145. The unagi melts in the mouth. Really yummy! The friend had also onigiri salmon SEK45. Good thing we shared the dessert (photos below), so, in total, I paid SEK218 for my dinner today.

Tastebud : Gojo

7 October 2024

Yesterday, the organisation that I am a volunteer in treated us (volunteers) to a dinner in Gojo restaurant, an Ethiopian restaurant. We shared a beyeaynetu, a mix of hot, spacy and mild stews, chicken stew, beef, vegetarian stew, cottage cheese and salad, served with sourdough pancakes, a local Ethiopian bread known as injera, on the sides and under the stew. It was really yummy in the beginning but soon, the pancakes soaked up the sauce and it was too dry to eat. It would have been nice to have more sauce. Some volunteers said that it was spicy in the stew but it was mild for me.

I tried Ethiopian coffee too. SEK35. It tastes different than brewed coffee or Vietnamese coffee or Malaysian coffee. It was not very strong either so I could sleep when I got home. The coffee was served in a unique coffee pot (made from clay) and we drank from tiny cups. The coffee pot comes with a cushion and wooden cap on top. So cute.