Kita no Lamp Tei （北のランプ亭）| Seafood BBQ Restaurant | Shiraoi

If you want to enjoy delicious seafood BBQ and hot spring at the same place, I recommend "Kita no Lamp Tei （北のランプ亭）" in Shiraoi （白老）!

This restaurant is just in front of the Pacific Ocean! Perfect location, isn't it?

When it's a beautiful day, it is great to eat lunch at the terrace!

How beautiful the ocean is!!

This is the menu for the lunch time. You must be surprised at a portion for one person.

Voila!!!
These are "Seafood BBQ sets （海鮮炭定食）" for four persons. My guests really enjoyed this delicious seafood caught off this area! The seafood so fresh that we can eat it as sashimi!!

They also ordered a "meat BBQ set （大地の炭焼定食）", 

a "sashimi set （お刺身定食）, and

(*They are of course caught in the Pacific ocean just in front of the restaurant!!)

a "deep-fired oyster set （かきフライ定食）".

Look at the plump oysters!

Please dip it in the delicious tartar!!! Yummy x 2!!!

This is today's special （おまかせ定食）! How big the seafood and vegetable fritters are!!

I should have ordered this seafood bowl??? Hahaha!

Actually I ordered a "seafood and meat BBQ set （海・山炭焼定食）"because I love meat, too!

Each set comes with rice, salad, miso soup, pickles, and a small dish like this↓ Are these normal side dishes? No, No, No!!!!

Look at the miso soup! It has several asari clams!!!! I love this fresh seafood texture!!!

Please enjoy the fresh ingredients with three kinds of BBQ sauce!

This is Sakhalin surf clam caught off Tomakomai city! How sweet it is! It is so fresh that I made it rare!

The vegetables were also produced in this area!

How about Hokkaido beef? It is very juicy! I love charcoal-broiled fish and meat!!

This home-made bacon is really recommendable!

This scallop was again caught off this area! Would you like to eat it? Please open your month! Hahaha!

We were so happy to eat such delicious local products!

This salmon was the best among all seafood today! It is perfectly fatty!!

This is not the end of our lunch.
Look at the today's special sashimi memu↓ Today they serve smelt sashimi, squid sashimi, HUGE botan prawn sashimi, Pacific saury sashimi, and boiled hairy crabs.

We ordered smelt sasimi （ししゃも刺）, because it is very local. Except this area, it is very difficult to get such fresh smelt and eat it as sashimi!!! Actually when it came to our table, the head was still moving a little bit!! Wow! Wow! Wow!

I love it!!! It is super-delicious!!!

This restaurant is very unique! How unique is it? Let's enter the "Natural Hot Spring --Zange no Heya-- （天然かけ流し温泉　懺悔の部屋）"↓

Yes! It has an outdoor hot spring!

This is just in front of the ocean! How comfortable it is!

The hot spring is alkali with salt!

Look at the large amount of natural water!! And guess what? It is free!!!

The time tricked by very slowly here!

■Where is "Kita no Lamp Tei （北のランプ亭）"?

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Hokkaido Milk Castella （北海道牛乳カステラ）| Castella Specialty Shop/ Cafe | New Chitose AP

New Chitose Airport has a lot of attractive shops and cafes. If you like sweets and dairy, how about "Hokkaido Gyunyu (Milk) Castella （北海道牛乳カステラ）"?

Freshly-baked delicious castella can be eaten at its cafe!! Sounds wonderful, doesn't it?

How yummy is it? Mr. Hironobu Tsujiguchi （辻口 博啓）, a popular Japanese pâtissier produces this shop. Now you understand I don't have to explain about how tasty the sponge cake is! Hahaha!

He carefully selects ingredients for the cake. All of them are produced in Hokkaido!

Well, well, well, I'll show you the cake first! Seeing (or eating) is believing!!

This is a cafe corner.

Voila!
This is super-delicious castella!

They serve two sets; a coffee set and a milk set, and I definitely recommend a milk set! Why????

This is pasteurized and non-homogenized milk produced in "One Two Farm （ワンツー牧場）" in Akan （阿寒）, Hokkaido. That's why it is very tasty and dense!! 

Please put this dense cake with ...............

non-sugar fresh cream!!! I love it!!

How do you like the castella rusk? This is available only at this shop!

They also serve castella parfait!

During the Halloween season, they also serve a seasonal specialty parfait.

Voila part 2!
This is the pumpkin parfait!

The pumpkin cream is not very sweet! Absolutely this is my favorite!

Look at the body! It has diced castella, soft ice cream, and pumpkin paste!!! Bravo!!

How about the other toppings? It has slices of pumpkin of course, and

the yummy x 2 rusk!!!

Last but not least, their ice cream is super-super delicious!! It tastes like high-grade milk itself!! They don't use a lot of sugar for it so that we can enjoy the tasty milk flavor from the heart! Perfect!!

If you like production-limited sweets, how about "Sakegasu or sake cake （酒粕）"? The very soft castella contains sake cake, smelling distinctive aroma!

When you come to the New Chitose AP, why don't you drop by this cafe, and fully enjoy the Hokkaido taste?

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Fuji Zushi Otaru Branch （ふじ鮨小樽店）| Sushi Bar | Otaru

If you want to eat sushi reasonably in Sakaimachi Main Street （堺町本通） in downtown Otaru, how about Fuji Zushi Otaru Branch （ふじ鮨小樽店）?

It is a good idea to eat it at counter, but.................

how about the lacquer table seats on the tatami floor?

This room is a mixture of western style (tables) and Japanese style (tatami and lacquer ware), and very comfortable to non-Japanese visitors, too!

We ate too much! Don't be surprised! How many people in the group? Just FOUR! Hahaha!

■Nigirizushi (Tokujyo) 握鮨（特上）
I recommend this Sakhalin surf clam!

■Seasonable Sushi 旬の握り
Autumn reminds us of Pacific saury!!

■Shohuku Nigiri 招福握り
If you like high-grade sushi (toro, abalone, splendid alfosino, etc.......), I recommend this! It is only 3,680 yen!!! Very reasonable, isn't it?

■Sushi Gozen 寿司御膳
If you want to eat seafood soup, tempura, chawanmushi as well as sushi, how about this? It is only 2,520 yen!

■Temaki Sushi 手巻き寿司
We ate a lot and a lot! Hahaha!

■ Customized sushi お好み
If you have some requests, the chef makes your own favorite sushi set like this↓

Other than sushi, they serve several kinds of seafood dishes.

■Ikano ponponyaki イカのポンポン焼き
This is very local dish!

■Tempura

■Eel

My guests from Hawaii really enjoyed this local sushi bar!

■Where is "Fuji Zushi Otaru Branch （ふじ鮨小樽店）"?

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Otaru Stroller's Bus （おたる散策バス）

If you want to go around Otaru by bus, I recommend "Otaru Stroller's Bus （おたる散策バス）" with a "One-Day Pass （一日乗車券）"

It  is 750 yen, and you can go almost all popular tourist destinations in Otaru including Otaru Kihinkan (Guest House)（小樽貴賓館）, Otaru Aquarium （おたる水族館）, and Otaru Tengyama Ropeway （小樽天狗山ロープーウェイ）↓

Showing this pass,

you can get some discount at tourist spots and restaurants below and others↓

Actually my tour guests and I enjoyed sushi and beer at Fujizusi （ふじ鮨） with the pass yesterday. 

As we can get 10% discount there, I'm sure we get our money's worth!　
(If you want the details of the sushi bar, please refer to my other post→☆)

■Otaru tourist information■

Please refer to my other posts!

・Kitaichi Glass→☆

・Otaru Milk Plant→☆

・Sakaemachi Main Street→☆

・Snow Light Path Festival→☆

・Otaru Mantis Prawn Festival→☆

・Otaru Canal→☆

・LeTAO→☆

・Sushi-Making Experience→☆

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Monthly Ice Cream (Made by MISSU HOUSE) on the Limited Express Trains of JR Hokkaido | September, 2012

When I use a limited express train here in Hokkaido, I always eat monthly ice cream sold on the train.

This time, I went to Sapporo from Hakodate. This is JR Hakodate Station↓ Here we go♪

We took a Super Hokuto Limited Express Train as usual!

Voila!
This is my favorite ice cream!!! The monthly ice cream in September is.....................

Kurosengoku black beans(黒千石）!!

It contains a lot of anthocyanin, and very healthy! 

This ice cream is made by MISSU HOUSE, which is one of my favorite ice cram makers in Sapporo!
Hokkaido is famous for dairy products, and we can eat delicious ice cream here!

Do you wanna try it? Hahaha!
It is very fragrant and dairy!!! I love it!

After enjoying the yummy x 2 ice cream, I drank corn tea↓

It is a caffeine-free drink, and also contains black beans! Actually Hokkaido is famous not only for its milk but also beans and corn!

We've arrived in Sapporo!! 

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