さて、夢想園での2日目の夕食。全部は撮っていませんが。。。
Here is the dinner on the 2nd day in Yufuin. I didn’t take all the photos, though.
個人的には前菜を少しとお鍋をたっぷりとデザート、というようなシンプルな食事のチョイスがあると嬉しいのになと思います。仲居さん達もお料理する方もその方が楽ですし、チョイスがあってもきっとこういうお料理を選ぶ方の方が多いと思うので腕をふるう場はあるでしょうし。。。せっかく作っていただいたからと一生懸命いただきますが、多すぎて、またどうしても似たような味付けのものが多く、美味しくいただくというよりも最後は罰ゲームのようになってしまうので。。。最近はそういうチョイスのあるところも出てきていますが、まだまだこういうお食事が多いですよね。
Personally, I would love to have a choice of having just a couple of little starters, then hot pot, then dessert – something simple like that is much more enjoyable for me. Even when we have such a choice, I’m quite sure that the majority of people would choose this type of dinner as it’s not often you get it, so there will still be a lot of opportunity to cook proper dinner for the chefs. I just find this type of dinner too much, too long and lots of them taste similar. I try to eat as much as I can because I appreciate their work as I know it’s a lot of work in details but I stop enjoying it halfway through. There are some ryokan that give us that sort of a choice but not many and I hope there will be more in future.