If you’re in Fukuoka and you’re into beer, you’re probably going to want to check out the Asahi Brewery tour.
One of the local specialties here in Fukuoka is something called mentaiko — a reddish, sausagey-looking thing made from cured sacs of pollock roe.
Despite my undying love for ice cream, I’ve been dragging my feet on trying Cremia, the Japanese soft serve that everyone raves about.
It recently occurred to me that I was about to leave Japan without having yakitori (skewered meat, traditionally cooked over charcoal). Obviously, that wouldn’t do.
Tonkotsu ramen — in which pork bones are boiled down for hours and hours until you wind up with a rich, creamy soup — might be the most famous style of ramen.