El Zorro: Hotel, Food and the Dutch Night (酒店食物荷蘭夜)

2015年6月11日星期四

Hotel, Food and the Dutch Night (酒店食物荷蘭夜)

The hotel where our tour group stayed in Nagasaki is an interesting bit of Nagasaki history

It's a hotel built to commemorate the presence of the Portuguese traders and missionaries who first came to Nagasaki in 1543. To the left of the photo, one finds the front of a Catholic church "confessional".

The code of arms of the Nagasaki Monterey Hotel

Opposite to the small reception desk of the reception hall is a chapel where some Japanese may actually hold their wedding ceremonies. If they did so, their name would be engraved on a copper plated "Wedding Plague" hung on the exterior wall of the little chapel.

One could see the names of numerous couples who were married here.

Flowers outside the restaurant

Flowers at the patio adjoining the restaurant. If one likes, one can take one's meal in the patio.

The hotel is built like a castle with walls surrounding a huge courtyard and patios

Flowers outside the hotel entrance.

The name plate of the restaurant "Saudade" means the feeling of "missing somebody/something" and a sense of regret that he/she/it may not be here.

A corner of the restaurant

Another room around the patio

The biggest room in the restaurant !

A model of a Portuguese battle ship

A mini model of Portuguese dining room

A really delicate reproduction

But the most pleasant dining experience in the trip was one at a teppanyaki restaurant at a hotel in Huis Ten Bosch where I got the waiter and the 20-year experience teppanyaki master chef to pose for me after the meal.