Takamatsu #8

Early in the morning, we headed to Nakano udon school Takamatsu (中野うどん学校 高松校) even though it was pouring. We had already made a reservation and did not want to change it.

Website: http://www.udonschool.jp/

This place seems to be very popular. I saw on the pictures posted that that the cast of Dae Jang Geum also visited the place.

Once there, the instructor explained to us how to make udon from flour and we immediately got to work on our dough. After mixing the dough, we had to put it into a bag and then 'dance' on it. I left this important task to J. Lol.....Meanwhile, I was given a tambourine to provide support.

As the dough had to rest, we got to bring the one that we had made there home.

Meanwhile we were given another set of dough to be made into udon noodles for lunch.

I thought that my noodles were pretty even in terms of width.

After that, they collected our udon noodles and brought it to the dining hall for us.

As you can see, it is a very big hall. There were only 2 other families there when we visited. I think their business was severely affected by COVID-19. 

There, we got to cook our udon, and then enjoy it with the side dishes that we chose.

We decided to add tempura to our course. We did have to pay extra but it was nice with the tempura. 

I am also pleasantly surprised by how good the udon tasted.

I highly recommend this as it was fun and I feel that it is very nice to be able to attend this kind of cultural lessons when you visit a place.

After that, we took the bus back to where our hotel was.

There we explored the shopping area and entered a cake shop called 菓子工房ルーヴ 番町店 (Lowe).

There, we had very nice desserts.

The chocolate cake was light and rich at the same time.

This apple cake was super pretty to look at and luckily, it tasted good too.

From this trip, I ended up purchasing souvenirs for my colleagues from the cake shop as they had some pretty fancy looking cookies. Some of them are award winning too.

You can check out their online shop from their webste too: https://lowe.co.jp/