After looking at Minister Kumamoto from a distance, Akane Kirino was already satisfied.
However, when she came, she went to the minister's office that was open to the public and looked at it, took a few photos, and bought a few Kumamoto's ornaments before leaving.
Walking out of Kumamoto Square, she smiled at the people accompanying her.
"I'm so hungry, let's go eat fried pork chops."
"Um."
The lunch location was decided by Akane Kirino when she planned to see Kumamoto. It was nearby, a restaurant famous for fried pork chops.
After crossing two streets and rushing there, the store was full of customers.
After picking up the number, I waited on the bench outside the store for a while. Several people were eating the cone bought by Zong Gu. The clerk came out to greet them.
"It's our turn finally."
Akane Kirino immediately stood up, "I want to have another cone."
“It’s cold and hot, be careful of stomachache.”
He put the last bit of the cone into his mouth, licked his lips at Mizuling, and stood up to follow Sonoya.
Sitting down in the store, the clerk brought the menu, and the first page he opened was a picture of fried pork chops, which was very attractive.
[Super special selection! Kagoshima Prefecture, six white black dolphins]
"Is the black pork from Kagoshima..."
The fried pork chops are divided into ridge meat and waist meat, and the prices are also different. Akane Kirino and Hongzi ordered different parts and gathered together to discuss and exchange and taste later.
Sonoya flipped back and there were some other fried foods to choose from. Unfortunately, the highly recommended oyster tempura is a seasonal limited dish and cannot be eaten until around November.
After ordering the order, before serving the fried pork chops, the clerk first brought some side dishes and radish paste for each person.
Pour some vinegar sauce in, stir evenly, Zonggu tasted it, the radish paste was cold and sweet, which was very appetizing.
"I feel like I can prepare a side dish like this in my store..."
Akane Kirito stretched out her chopsticks and took a small bite. She felt it was pretty good. Then she learned how to eat it and poured some vinegar into the bowl of radish mud.
"Don't add too much." Sonogu reminded.
"Uh-huh."
Hongzi sat next to her and pushed her bowl over.
"Songya helps me."
He picked up the vinegar bottle, poured it in a little, and then pushed the bowl back.
"It will always be stirred."
“…”
She was a little dissatisfied.
She was even more dissatisfied when she saw him mixing radish mud for Kyoko next to her.
Buzz —
Hongzi: Treat it differently!
“…”
Putting down his phone, Zong Gu glanced at her.
Sending him a message in front of others on the table is no different from directly speaking.
"Thanks."
After tasting the stirred vinegar and radish paste, Kyoko stretched out her hand and pushed Hongzi's bowl in front of Soya.
“…”
Hongzi opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything, and nodded slightly.
After mixing for her, Zong Gu also brought the portion of Chaowuling.
Yueyu held a bowl in the corner.
"There are mine here."
"Do it yourself."
After a while, the clerk brought a few wooden pestles, and a bowl with twill patterns carved on the inner wall.
"This is for grinding sesame seeds," Akane Kirino explained.
She uncovered the seasoning bowl on the table, which contained fried white sesame seeds, "That's it."
After scooping two large spoonfuls of sesame seeds into the bowl, she picked up the wooden pestle and pressed it to grind it.
"It smells so good..."
The wooden pestle and the thick grains in the bowl squeezed each other, crushing the sesame seeds into powder. Zong Gu, who was sitting opposite, soon smelled the fragrance, and then started to move.
The white sesame seeds are seasoned with pork chop sauce, so there is no need to be crushed too much. He stopped smelling the strong fragrance, and most of the sesame seeds in the bowl have been ground into powder.
As he grinds the sesame seeds for Chaowuling, their pork chops finally came up.
The pork chops have been cut, and the two sides are fried golden. They are placed on the shredded karibanana, and you can vaguely hear the sizzling sound inside.
Zong Gu clamped a small piece with clear cuts. The pork sandwiched between the dough skins on both sides was tender in color. With a little force, the gravy overflowed;
After biting it, the teeth penetrate the crispy dough and then biting it, the gravy flows out of the pork chops, and the aroma instantly spreads into the entire mouth.
“Um…”
The outside is crispy and tender on the inside, and the gravy is fragrant, making people feel endless aftertaste.
“How is it ~”
Akane Kirino looked at him, with a few grains of bread crumbs on the corners of her lips.
Sonogu nodded, "It's really good."
"Uh-huh!"
After tasting the original pork chop, he opened the sauce jar, scooped a few spoonfuls of pork chop sauce, added it to the grated sesame seeds, and stirred it a few more times.
"This can of pork chop sauce is spicy...the one here is rich in fragrance."
"Yeah, I saw it."
Pick up a piece of pork chop, dip it in sesame sauce, and take a bite. The juice overflows, and the taste and fragrance go to the next level.
Akane Kirino and Hongko exchanged each other's pork chops, and after comparison, they concluded that the meat in the inner ridge is lean, the meat is less gravy, and the meat at the waist is more fragrant.
The rice was delivered quickly.
Take a piece of pork chop, eat a bite of rice, and mix with vinegar to relieve greasiness;
Take another sip of delicious clam miso soup, and Yukio breathes a sigh of relief.
“Super satisfied…”
......
After eating pork chop rice, the few people took a break, took the tram and returned to Kumamoto Station along the route they came.
On the high-rise building in the station, you can see the tall and majestic Kumamoto Castle Tenshou Pavilion, which is black and white in total, and is said to be the original design prototype of Kumamoto Bear.
"It's quite similar."
"I can't tell where it looks like it except the color."
From Kumamoto to Kagoshima, there is a JR Shinkansen cherry blossom train, which only takes one hour to Kagoshima Chuo Station, which is also their choice.
Get the ticket and get on the train. After a while, the train sets off and heads towards Kagoshima City to the south.
Kagoshima City is not the final destination for this trip. Akane Kirino chose to stay in Izumi, a famous tourist city at the southern end of the Satsuma Peninsula, famous for its hot springs.
"It is said that locals call Messue 'Hawaii of Japan'." Akane Kirino said.
Soya looked out the window, "I only know that it's quite far from Izusu to Sakurajima."
"What does it matter? Anyway, the area around Sakurajima is also the place we want to go... and it is much closer than Shimahara to Iki Island."
He looked back and said, "You chose Shimahara's homestay."
“Um…”
Akane Kirino pondered for a while, then pretended that she had never mentioned this topic and passed by indifferently.
The train advanced and arrived in Kagoshima City almost an hour later.
It wasn't two o'clock yet, and I was able to catch the Kyushu special tourist train between Kagoshima and Ishisui, the Jade Hand Box number.
The black and white two-color spliced train has a very design feel. Because it is a luxury express, the ticket is not cheap, and it costs more than 2,000 yen for one way of more than 40 kilometers.
"There are still very powerful places." Akane Kirino said mysteriously.
The conductor was greeted by the train with white fog rising and walked into the luxuriously decorated carriage. Zong Gu looked at the ticket in his hand again.
"How much does Miss Kirino give you this time?"
"What... it's all the money I earn from working."
"It's a little too extravagant."
When he got on the train, the conductor took their luggage and sat in the bar, and then looked at Akane Kirino who was sitting next to him.
"The hotel we want to stay today also costs more than 18,000 yen in one night."
"Because it's a rare trip."
She shook her legs, kept looking at the decorations and furnishings in the car, and looked at him again, "I can still afford it once in a while."
Zong Gu nodded and said no more.
"And Soya also paid a lot of money for me... For example, at the restaurant in Inasayama last night."
He smiled and stood up again.
“Because it’s a rare trip.”
Akane Kirino smiled.
At this moment, she felt that nothing was happier than being with him.
The interior of the carriage is decorated with logs, with a variety of seats including a bar and sofa. One side is filled with books, which looks like a mobile library on a train.
Akane Kirino pulled Hongzi to the bar, flipping the book on the sofa, Kyoko sat aside, and Soya sat down in another empty seat next to her.
A few minutes later, the train slowly started and headed towards Kosu.
Shortly after leaving Kagoshima Chuo Station, Kyoko suddenly patted his arm and signaled him to look up.
Zong Gu raised his gaze from the book and saw a tall volcano standing in the distance under the blue sky outside the car window, with white smoke spitting out on the top.
"Sakurajima..."
"Um."
The essence of Sakurajima is an active volcano that is still active to this day. He has long known that the part connected to the Osumi Peninsula was formed in the "Taisho Eruption" a century ago;
It was just a different feeling to see the crater spitting smoke with your own eyes.
The train moved, and the volcano in the distance slowly turned around, active and silent.