I mentioned in my previous post that we'd taken a quick weekend trip to Nagasaki, Japan mostly to try different foods, as it has the longest history in Japan of integration with the outside world. Along these lines, we stopped by a Hamamatsu location to try their shippoku cuisine (長崎市、浜松の卓袱料理).

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Arrival

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A Different Kind
of chain restaurant

The place seemed fairly upscale, but it's a chain of about 100 restaurants owned by the same company that does “Ringer Hut” fast food (named after a 19th-century Nagasaki merchant from England).

The shippoku cuisine is (said to be) heavily influenced by the long Chinese presence in Nagasaki, but frankly, it all seemed like “normal” Japanese to me. Whatever you call it, it was tasty, so let's look at the dishes...

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Light Soup

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Sweet Beans

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Assorted
mustard & renkon, beef, okura and chicken(?)

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As Fresh as You Can Get
wasabi root grated in front of us

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Demonstrating

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Various Sashimi

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Cooked White Fish
of some sort, with a tart plum sauce

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Fish and Green Miso

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Something Tasty
I forget what these were, but they were crispy on the outside, molten on the inside

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Another Assortment
eel, chicken, pumpkin, eggplant, daikon

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Pork
that absolutely melts in your mouth

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Lightly Pickled Veggies

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Another Light Soup
the camera freaked out and overexposed this by a couple of stops,
recovered as best I could in Lightroom

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Light Dessert
watermelon in gelatin

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Sweet-Bean Soup
to end the meal on the same kind of sweet note as it started on

A lot of dishes, but each one little, so the amount was just right for me. (You also get Japnese white rice in there, which I forgot to photograph. It looked like rice.)

Having lived in Japan on and off for 20+ years, I find it odd that I don't recognize what makes this meal specific to Nagasaki... it wouldn't surprise me to see something quite similar in Kyoto, except perhaps Kyoto would tend to include tofu and yuba.