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ABC Cooking Studio Singapore x CLAIR Summer Trip to Kagawa ~ Mitoyo Part 2

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This part of the trip was most interesting and fruitful. First we learn how to make the popular Sanuki udon by hand and followed by a trip to the peach farm where we get to pick peaches and eat them right off the tree! Udon House is a very special place with a very interesting concept. They offer cooking lessons, culture trip around the town and is also a guesthouse. Our udon making session was a media preview so it was like a crash course, from sharing with us the history of udon, the various types of udon and learning…

ABC Cooking Studio Singapore x CLAIR Summer Trip to Kagawa ~ Mitoyo Part 1

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Now here comes my favourite part of the trip and also my favourite city in Kagawa. Mitoyo is a small city located in the countryside of western Kagawa Prefecture and is also right in the heart of the Seto Inland Sea. Despite being a small city, there are so much charm and a lot to do here. There are several ways to get to Mitoyo as shown from the image below. You can also visit here to get full details on visiting Mitoyo. Image source : http://mitoyo.org/access/en/ We visited this vinegar factory, Nio Su in Nio Town that produces vinegar…

ABC Cooking Studio Singapore x CLAIR Summer Trip to Kagawa ~ Shōdoshima Part 2

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Hiiii! I back with the 2nd instalment of our Kagawa summer trip on Shōdoshima. As I’ve mentioned in my previous post that I’ll be sharing more on olive oil in this second largest island in the Seto Inland Sea and also the wholesome lunch we get to enjoy in the olive farm. Our first stop upon arriving at this sunny island… Inoue Seikoen is an olive farm that produces various types of products made with the olives grown on the farm. You might already have come across this brand in Singapore where they have a shop located at Tangs Plaza selling olive…

ABC Cooking Studio Singapore x CLAIR Summer Trip to Kagawa ~ Shōdoshima Part 1

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We woke up early on day 2 of our Kagawa Summer Trip to catch the morning ferry heading to Shōdoshima 小豆島, the second largest island in the Seto Inland Sea. Shōdoshima may be unfamiliar to many of us outside of Japan but it is a popular domestic tourism destination within Japan itself. The island is well-known for it’s Olive Plantation and has traditionally been the producer of Soy Sauce. Apart from these, the island is also famous as the setting for the movie Twenty-Four Eyes (Nijushi no Hitomi) in 1954. We took the Shodoshima ferry from Takamatsu port which was walking distance…

ABC Cooking Studio Singapore x CLAIR Summer Trip to Kagawa ~ Takamatsu

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I was beyond ecstatic when I received the news that I am selected to go on a trip to Kagawa organised by ABC Cooking Studio Singapore and The Japan Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (“CLAIR”). I agreed to it instantly of course, not knowing what I’d signed up for and it turned out to be one of the best hasty decision I made in my life so far. So when I finally managed to calm myself down, I began to wonder where actually is Kagawa. A search on google and I found an array of scenic images. Why…

Fukuoka ~ Wine & Sweets, Tsumons

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My travel companions and I has an incurable disease. Shop-till-we-drop disease. We’ve been travelling together rather frequently, at least one trip a year so we kind of know each other’s weaknesses. No matter how much efforts we put in to planning the itinerary in such a way that shopping should never exceed 50% of the entire trip, we habitually failed to follow through. Time and again, we were being carried away by the alluring stores and lost track of time, especially meal times which was really a horrible thing when we finally hear the protest from our stomachs. On numerous…