カリー・サボイ(Curry Savoy)
サボイカリー（キチン）に舞茸となすをトッピング。チャイがついて、１５００円ぐらい。
円山茶寮
いちごぜんざい、白玉入り。フレンチミックス。
ホワイトコージ よつ葉
パフェ・オ・カフェ（６８２円）。お酒とコーヒーゼリー入り。
This day I was alone, also the next day. Soup curry originated in Hokkaido so of course I had to try! It has a huge piece of chicken and more chunks of potato, aubergine, mushroom in it, I was sooooooooo stuffed afterwards, that I even couldn’t eat dinner!! But what bugged me a lot was the 3 big flies that hovered around my seat. I sat at the counter so the chefs were right in front of me and one of them saw me dodging the flies and apologised….rather than apologies I wish he would just do some cleaning…One of the fly landed on the rice that was to be delivered to other customers who sat on the tables away from the kitchen, I thought I was going to say something but I knew it was useless cos the shop people knew the flies were there but just ignored them! I just couldn’t enjoy eating it when I had to dodge and chew and fend and chew, one of the flies landed on my chai tea…oh well. Though I was really full from the rather late lunch, I followed my sweet-loving friend’s recommendation and went to this old Japanese-styled cafe, which was so atmospheric, lots of loner customers reading and having the same strawberry sauce and read-bean with ice-cream. It is this day that I had nothing to do and went to see Charlie and Sin City. The coffee jelly parfait was the 1 hour break between the two movies. ^^;;
小樽 巽（たつみ）鮨
寿司屋通りにある寿司屋さん。ウニ。ぶどう海老。
たらば蟹の寿司。にしん。
ホタテ。いか。
さんま。いくら。
ブリ。ずわい蟹の寿司。
たらば蟹。ほっき。キンキ。会計は６０００円ぐらい。
北菓楼 小樽本館
ソフトクリーム、３００円。
焼きトウモロコシ。
時計台の隣にある、サッポロ珈琲館。
ジンギスカン だるま（札幌）
Last time I went to Hokkaido I tried crab sashimi for the first time and I was shocked how tasty it was! But you never see crab sashimi in Tokyo - the crab has to be super fresh you see. So this time since we were half giving up uni, we went hunting crab sashimi in Otaru. We went to a different sushi place first, my friend saw the show case and hinted to me “Let’s get out”. ^^;; So we were loitering along the “sushi restaurants street” and chose this place when it got late(lunch time) and we were really hungry. The uni was really bad, as expected, I wonder why we insisted ordering it…But oh my, the crab sashimi was really good~!! Better than the first time I had it. We tried tarabagani, the same kind of crab we had the previous night but this time raw, it was so good that I ordered one more later and the chef was so nice he gave me a big big piece. We also tried a different crab called zuwaigani, which was a little bitter but nice too. There was little piece of rice underneath the crab. We were very satisfied and went to have ice-cream again in 北菓楼 - which was definitely the best ice-cream I have ever had! So rich! I bought a lot of souvenirs(cookies, cakes etc.) in this shop too. The BBQ is Genghis Kan(成吉思汗）, mutton barbecue, I have had it in Tokyo but it is more popular in Hokkaido. The lamb meat is not flavoured so it is just plain grill and dip sauce, but the meat is very tender and tasty and both my friend and I ordered a second round. The shop is super famous, always a long queue, but miraculously we went at the right moment that we didn’t have to queue. We shared the kimchi and the rice and were really stuffed. About 2000yen per person.
どんぶり茶屋（札幌二条市場）
うに・いくら丼、２６００円。かにみそ焼き、５００円。
近藤（札幌二条市場）
うに、たらば蟹、ホタテ、１９００円。
小樽。
あまとう（小樽）
アップルパイ。クリームぜんざい。
一心太助（小樽）
つきだしのサンマ。カニのむきみ。たらば蟹。ドリンク２杯頼んで６０００円ぐらい。
JRタワー展望室T３８（札幌）
入場料７００円。セルフのカフェバーでチャイナブルー、５００円。
The first two shops are inside a small fish market in town. The first one where we had uni and ikura rice bowl and grilled crab miso is supposed to have been introduced on TV and stuff, and the obasan there kept hard-selling us this expensive 2600yen uni rice bowl, claiming it to be good while we were actually planning to order the cheap 1500yen uni rice bowl. We trusted her and ordered the expensive one…gosh it was so bad!! The uni was so tasteless, one of the worst uni I have ever had. The crab miso was good, though it is not difficult to make it good I suppose. Then we went to a second shop in the same market, trying to redeem some faith in Hokkaido’s seafood quailty. We had scallop, crab and uni. The crab was very sweet very good, the uni was much much better than the uni we just had in the first shop, yet it was still not the sweetest creamy uni that I know of!! Especially I went to tsukiji 築地 fish market in Tokyo a while ago and the “Hokkaido uni” I had was sooooo good and I couldn’t help setting it as a “standard”. We were so shocked, I mean it is the first uni we have in this trip and it is so bad…maybe uni is not the right season? We were planning to travel in Sapporo on that day, but we were just too traumatized that we changed our plan and took a train that goes straight to Otaru 小樽, which is a lovely town with a canal and is famous for seafood. We had apple pie and ice-cream - Hokkaido is famous for its dairy products so soft ice-cream is supposed to be good, and it turned out to be super good! The seafood place we went in Otaru for dinner was very famous and recommended by friends, so if the uni is not good in this place, then it is not good anywhere. It turned out that….the shop was not selling uni AT ALL because it is the wrong season!!!! That’s the fact then. We went in the wrong time!!! Sigh!!!! As we were feeling very stupid for not properly researching before we came, the free appetizer came and it was that big plate of Sanma 秋刀魚!! One fish for each of us as well!! It was so juicy so nice. Then we ordered boiled crab with shell already peeled. It was very sweet and yummy~!! And as we were going to order salmon and ikura rice bowl, which the friend who recommended this place had ordered and looked very good, we saw the ojisan x2 and a obasan sitting next to us ordered a huge huge crab per person!!! I knew it was a bad idea cos me and my friend were already quite full, but oh fuck it, we just ordered one to share. That is the giant crab in the picture, it is really so shockingly huge!! We used scissor to cut it, which was kinda scary at first but there was so much meat inside that we were silently eating and eating and eating and by the “3rd leg”, we were both stuffed to our throats, and still there was the “body” we had to finish. ^^;;; God, I think I have eaten my share of crab for the rest of my life. ^^;;; Then we went back to Sapporo and went up to 38th floor of the JR train station tower for a panorama view of the city and had a cocktail there. An eventful day…
支笏湖商店街
ひめます（姫鱒）御膳、２０００円。
丸駒温泉旅館
The first day was hotspring hotel, near a lake only an hour away by local bus from the Sapporo Chitose airport. The scenary was lovely, especially the lake view from the open-air hotspring. The dinner in the hotspring hotel was served in the room, but unfortunately the food was no good…err….I was expecting something delicous inside the hot plate but it turned out to be two sad pieces of hard and tasteless duck meat….err….
The grilled fish set was lunch in the little souvenir shopping street by the lake before we went to the hotel. That fish is the lake’s specialty - a smaller version of salmon apparently. Hmm….salmon is much better. ^^;;
北のグルメ亭（中央卸売市場）
花畑牧場（千歳空港）
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