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Monday, April 23, 2012

Zensho (夕日ヶ丘レストラン善生)| Farm Restaurant | Iwamizawa

Would you like to eat delicious rice? If so, I recommend "Zensho (夕日ヶ丘レストラン善生)", a farm restaurant run by rice farmers in Iwamizawa, 40 minutes away from Sapporo.

It is always crowded with local people, and we have to wait for a while. But it is worth a wait! They are using carefully selected ingredients, some of them we can buy in this restaurant↓

I really recommend their rice especially! There is big difference between one sold at supermarkets and theirs!!!

The restaurant is like this!

From the windows, we can enjoy rural landscapes. They have still some snow, but it will be covered with vivid green grasses and plants in just one month!
One of the recommendable points here is a beautiful sunset from this hill! We have to come back here for dinner!!!!

During the lunch hours, they serve some lunch sets such as a hamburg set, a pasta set, a today's meat set, and a today's fish set. Surprisingly we can eat their delicious rice as much as possible!!!

It is a pity that their fresh vegetable and fruit juice was already sold out when we came here............... It is only 100 yen, and tastes very thick!!

Look at the drink menu!

We can order local alcohols such as Housui wine in Iwamizawa, Yamazaki wine in Mikasa, and production limited sake made by Kobayashi Sake Brewery. Sounds very attractive, doesn't it???
(If you'd like to know the sake brewery, please refer to my other post! We went to the Sake Brewery Festival the other day→click )

I really recommend this salad, which comes with every lunch set! Tastes very thick, and I love it!

This is a main for today's meat lunch set. Look at a lot of kinds of vegetables on the thick pork stake! Yummy x 2!!!

Side dishes are like this↓ We can fully enjoy delicious vegetables in this restaurant!!

This is a hamburg lunch set named a sunset lunch set!

It looks like a sunset; demi-glace sauce and cheese!!!

Hot! Hot! Hot! And yummy x 2!!!

The set has the same side dishes as today's meat lunch set.

This is milk jelly, a dessert for a sunset lunch set!

Last but not least, I'll show you their rice!! I strongly believe that this is a "real" main for their lunch sets!!

It is so delicious that I had a refill of rice!!! It is free of charge!!! Perfect, isn't it?
They blend two kinds of brand rice: Yumepirica (70%) and Nanatuboshi (30%). I've never eaten such delicious rice!!! I have to come back here to eat this super-tasty rice!!

After eating delicious rice, we ordered additional dessert!
A drink can be selected among several kinds, and I chose ginger ale↓

We had a wonderful time here!

Of course, I bought their delicious rice in this restaurant! When it's gone, I'll be back again! I became a big fan of their rice!

Black bean and soy bean snacks look great, and I bought one of them!

On the way back home, we enjoyed talking about today's lunch!! We really recommend this restraurant, serving delicious rice and vegetables!!

■Where is "Zensho (夕日ヶ丘レストラン善生)"?

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Rozan (中華創食酒家 魯山)| Chinese Restaurant | Sapporo

As I came to Kiyota ward in Sapporo, I dropped by "Rozan (廬山)" to eat almond jelly (杏仁豆腐)!!!

Let's enter it!

When you come here, I recommend a mapo bowl, chow main (salt-slavor) and.............

almond jelly! They serve only 10 portions of almond jelly a day. Please be careful!

This is a mapo bowl!

You can eat it at 760 yen for the lunch hours! While I was eating it, I was thinking about today's dessert! How do I like their almond jelly??

As I was hungry, I also ordered seafood dumplings! Hahaha!

Voila!! This is my favorite!
This almond jelly is quite different from one served in other restaurants! It smells very almond, and tastes not too sweet!

■Where is "Rozan (廬山)"?

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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Home-Made Ramen Menkoubou Takasago (手打ちラーメン・麺工房高砂)| Ramen Restaurant | Ebetsu

I finally could go to a popular ramen restaurant in Ebetsu, a city next to Sapporo. Although they serve delicious ramen, we have a very slight chance to eat it unfortunately, because the restaurant opens from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. from Wednesday to Saturday only. In addition, if their broth is gone, they close the restaurant.
This is "Home-Made Ramen Menkoubou Takasago (手打ちラーメン・麺工房高砂)" by JR Takasago Station↓

It is always packed with ramen lovers!

They serve several types of broth and flavors, but I recommend chicken bone-based broth (鶏白湯)!! Let me see............. What flavor should we order?

These are their hand-made ramen noodles. Before they are boiled, the owner kneads them to make the straight noodles curry!

This is salt-flavored ramen in chichen bone broth! The chicken broth goes well with salt flavor!!

This is say sauce-flavored in chicken broth, what I ordered!

The soup is very recommendable, very rich but not oily! Yummy x 2!!!

Their home-made noodles are super delicious, fitting nicely with this chicken soup!!

I'm sure this is one of my favorite ramens in Sapporo area. If you like chicken bone-based broth, this ramen restaurant should be included in your ramen list!!

■Where is "Home-Made Ramen Menkoubou Takasago (手打ちラーメン・麺工房高砂)"?

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Otaru Pizza House (おたるぴざはうす)| Italian Restaurant | Otaru

Otaru is a very cool and historical city, which has a lot of unique and fashionable cafes and restaurants. Today I'll show you "Otaru Pizza House (おたるぴざはうす)", serving home-made pizzas and pastas in a very distinctive atmosphere!

Look at this sign board! They serve special dishes for the lunch hours. But actually it opens from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., which means whenever we come here, we can eat this special dishes. Hahaha! Interesting, isn't it?

Look at the yellow board! I love this pizza service set, which consists of a pizza, a drink, and a side dishe such as doria, pasta and lasagna. Well, let's enter it!

It was little bit dark even though it was around noon!! We enjoyed this unique atmosphere! Then we looked around, and almost all costumers here were in their 40's or older! Wow! Wow! Wow! This restaurant seems to be very popular among local people! Even though Otaru is a tourist city, we couldn't find any tourists in this restaurant!

How cheap it is! Any drink is served at the price of 150 yen!!!! I love this hand-written massage!!!

As I said, I ordered a pizza service set.
I had to work after lunch, but I chose white wine........... just one glass of wine!!! Is it OK???

Hot! Hot! Hot!
Here comes lasagna! This seafood lasagna is on the hot iron plate!

It is covered with a lot of cheese!!!

Pizzas are selectable among three kinds and I chose Otaruyaki, a soy sause-based pizza with seafood. I'd never tried such a Japanese flavored pizza before!

Again, it is covered with a lot of cheese! Yummy x 2!!! Of course I love Italian pizzas like Margherita, but really recommend this unique pizza, too!

■Where is "Otaru Pizza House (おたるぴざはうす)"?

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■Tour guide information■
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