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- Fukuoka is a popular destination for young travelers, as it is a Japanese city close to Korea, with short flight times, a safe environment, and shopping, food, and entertainment.
- One of Fukuoka's signature dishes, motsunabe is a beef tripe hot pot, a Japanese dish made by simmering tripe and vegetables in a clear broth.
- Especially since there is a 1-person hot pot menu, it can be enjoyed without burden even for those traveling alone. In addition to the clear broth, there are also spicy options, so you can choose according to your preference.
Hello! Where would you like to go when you travel abroad? It's a perfect time for a vacation, and it's a great time for students because it's summer vacation. Many people travel to Europe or Southeast Asia to enjoy summer activities. However, many people visit East Asian countries close to Korea.
Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, and of course, Japan!
Originally, Tokyo and Osaka, the capital cities, were the most famous tourist destinations, but these days, all over Japan is becoming famous, with many people visiting the northern region of Hokkaido or the southern region of Okinawa. However, I'm going to tell you about Fukuoka, which is the closest to Korea and has a lot of shopping and things to do for young people!
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Fukuoka is a popular destination with short flight times, like going to Jeju Island, and is known for being fun and safe. It's a city with plenty of shopping, food, and things to do. The Japanese yen exchange rate has fallen a lot recently, so many people are going, and it's a place I highly recommend.
Today, I'm going to introduce some of Fukuoka's delicious food. I'll introduce some of the must-eat foods in Fukuoka and some of Fukuoka's best restaurants that you must try in Japan!
First of all, Japan has representative dishes for each region. Osaka is famous for takoyaki and okonomiyaki, Hiroshima is famous for oysters, Tokyo is famous for monjayaki, Okinawa is famous for Okinawa soba, and Hokkaido is famous for Jingisukan. Each region has its own specialty.
Okinawa is famous for Motsunabe (もつ鍋). Mots (もつ) means the innards of a cow or pig, and Nabe (鍋) means hot pot.
It is considered one of the three great dishes of Fukuoka. The three great dishes are Motsunabe, Tonkotsu Ramen, and Mentaiko. Motsunabe is a Japanese-style beef tripe hot pot where you put beef tripe, bean sprouts, cabbage, chives, mushrooms, and various vegetables according to your taste, and boil it until the broth is simmered. The broth is made with a base of soy sauce or miso sauce, flavored with bonito flakes and kelp. The vegetables and tripe cooked in this broth are delicious, with a deep and clean savory flavor. However, Japanese people do not drink the broth and only eat the ingredients. For Koreans who like broth, it may be a bit salty, so please keep that in mind. They usually finish the meal by adding noodles or rice to the remaining broth.
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When I visited Fukuoka, I heard that I had to try the famous Motsunabe, so I went to a Motsunabe specialty restaurant. I had never eaten large intestine before, and I wasn't a big fan of tripe, so I was worried.
Honestly, large intestine has a lot more fat than tripe, and the large intestine itself tasted like eating a lot of fat, but it was a non-stimulating dish. The large intestine went well with the bland broth. I liked the chives and cabbage, which I love. I think it's like a shabu-shabu with large intestine in clear broth.
It's a dish that seems familiar to us, and if you trace back the history, it is said that Koreans who were brought to the coal mining towns during the Japanese colonial period made a hot pot dish with Mots, which Japanese people didn't eat, and it spread to the Japanese people. In the early 1990s, a Motsunabe restaurant in Tokyo became very popular and became a food that ordinary people could eat cheaply, and its nationwide popularity skyrocketed. Now, there are many Motsunabe restaurants nationwide, and there are quite a few restaurants in Fukuoka city where you can eat just one serving, so it can be considered a must-try dish for solo travelers.
If you search for Motsunabe on Google Maps, a huge number of restaurants will come up. Honestly, they're all similar, so you can go to any of them. However, I'll tell you about a few places I've been to and some restaurants that are famous for their delicious food.
The restaurant I went to was Motsunabe Shoraku Fukuoka Main Store (もつ鍋 笑楽 福岡本店 天神西中洲). The location is 〒810-0002 Fukuoka, Chuo Ward, Nishinakasu, 11−4 笑樂ビル 1F, and the 1st floor is a bar style, and the 2nd and 3rd floors are table seats. I went there late at night, so there weren't many people, but it's said that there's usually a waiting line.
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The restaurant I recommend is Hakatan Sakana Yago (博多ん肴屋 五六桜).
This restaurant is famous for being visited by Baek Jong-won. As I'll explain later, it's a restaurant famous for Mizutaki, a local dish of Fukuoka, and Motsunabe. It's a hot pot menu, but it also has a one-person hot pot menu. If you're traveling alone, it's a good place to visit. Motsunabe is usually made with clear broth, but there's a spicy option. For Koreans, the clear broth doesn't cut the greasiness of the large intestine, so the spicy version is popular.
The location is 〒812-0026 Fukuoka, Hakata Ward, Kamikawabatamachi, 10−15 1F-B ローズマンション.
Today, we learned about Motsunabe, a must-try dish in Fukuoka. I'll recommend more Fukuoka restaurants in the next post!
