Kohrantei Shimotori main store
It takes about 1 hour and 40 minutes to get from Haneda Airport to Kumamoto Airport.
It is quite far from Kumamoto Airport to downtown Kumamoto, and it takes about an hour by bus.
This time, it took more than an hour and a half due to the rush hour and traffic jams to get home, so it took more than three hours in total to finally reach the city center of Kumamoto.
Kumamoto is a nice place, but the drawback is that the airport and the city center are too far apart. .
When I got off at the last stop, Sakuramachi Bus Terminal, it had been more than 3 hours since my last meal, so I decided to eat some Kumamoto specialty, ``Taipingyan” I decided to go eat it.
So, speaking of Taipingyan,Kohrantei Shimotori main store” I visited.
I visited without a reservation around 6:00pm on a Friday, and was able to enter the store without waiting.
Bin Beeru (Bottled Beer)
I wasn't feeling well, so I thought about ordering something, but I didn't want to just order Taiping Yan, so I ordered a bottled beer.
I had been feeling unwell this week, and when I finally recovered, I drank alcohol, and it was really delicious after drinking alcohol for the first time in about 5 days.
Otoshi (Appetizer)
I don't know if it was because I ordered alcohol, but I was provided with an appetizer.
Zha cai and boiled peanuts.
The cercai had a refined finish, perhaps with a little bit of butter in it.
The boiled peanuts had a slight hint of garlic and were delicious.
Chashu (Braised Pork)
I ordered chashu as a snack.
It had a chewy texture and meaty texture, and the star anise really worked well.
It gives the impression that it's more like a Chinese dish than a char siu on ramen.
Taipingyan
Taipingyan arrived about 10 minutes after ordering.
Simply put, taipingyan is champon noodles turned into vermicelli.
Ingredients
The ingredients included cabbage, chives, wood ear mushrooms, menma, squid, shrimp, pork, and lightly battered and fried eggs.
The shrimp in particular were plump and the squid was extremely soft, giving you a sense of the high quality of the ingredients.
Vermicelli
The vermicelli tasted like Japanese vermicelli, and was not the textured type used in Chinese or Korean cuisine.
Soup
For someone like me who is not used to eating Champon, my standard for Champon taste is Ringer Hut.
Compared to the ringer hat, it seemed to be lighter.
To put it bluntly, it's a thin ringer hat.
I have never eaten authentic Champon from places like Nagasaki, so this is my impression. .
Impressions
The atmosphere of the restaurant itself was very nice, and I think the quality of the food was high.
However, Taipingyan is a champon-flavored vermicelli soup, so it was delicious, but it didn't exceed my expectations, and since it was vermicelli, it wasn't very filling.
The person sitting next to me, who seemed to be a local, ordered Champon instead of Taipingen. .
It was so good that I thought eating Taipingyan once in my life was enough, or maybe I didn't even need to eat it at all. .
There were also menus such as the Taipingyan course, where you can eat small portions of the famous dishes, so if you have the stomach, I think you can order this and be able to fully enjoy the high quality of the food. .
I'm sorry that you weren't feeling well. .
