Jiyouken （ラーメン滋養軒）| Ramen Restaurant | Hakodate （函館）

I'm now in Hakodate↓

Hakodate （函館） reminds me of shio ramen!!!
"Jiyouken （滋養軒）" is one of the oldest ramen restaurants in Hakodate.......

Let's enjoy!!

Voila!!!
This is "Hakodate sio ramen （函館塩ラーメン）"↓

The homemade noodles are very elastic, and yummy x 2!!!

Look at the soup!
I love this transparent broth! That's Hakodate sio ramen!!!

I also ordered boiled gyoza （水餃子）, which are chewy and bouncy!!
I love the gyoza with a lot of minced leek!!!

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THE LAKE VIEW TOYA Nonokaze Resort （乃の風リゾート ） | Hot Spring Hotel | Lake Toya

We stayed at "THE LAKE VIEW TOYA Nonokaze Resort （乃の風リゾート ）" the other day.

This is a new hotel, and my guests and I were so excited!!

This is my room↓ I love it!

Look at Lake Toya （洞爺湖） from my room!! How beautiful it is!!!

Before eating dinner, I enjoyed hot spring first.
This is "Showanoyu （ザ・銭湯 昭和乃湯）", one of the hot spring areas in this hotel↓

Wow! Wow! Wow!
THIS is the public bath!!! Japanese public bath areas usually has a Mt. Fuji painting like this↓

The water contains a lot of minerals, making my skin more beautiful!!

 After taking hot spring, I relaxed at the massage chair for a while......

Let's go to the buffet restaurant for dinner!

The area has Japanese,

Western, and

Chinese food corners.

The sushi is very fresh!

The steak is being grilled in front of the guests.

I love local jumbo shrimps （牡丹海老）!!!

Clams （はまぐり） in the spaghetti  are also caught off this area!!

They serve a lot of kinds of desserts, and

fruits.......

I really enjoyed the buffet♪

Of course, I chose all of the desserts! Hahaha!

Next morning, I got up early and enjoyed another indoor hot spring area named "EZO FUJI".
The location is perfect!! Everybody in my tour was enjoying the hot spring and the lake at the same time. Time passes slowly here.

The open air hot spring here is my favorite.
Look at the pic↓
We felt as if the hot spring is connected with the lake!!!

We returned to the buffet restaurant again for breakfast!

I really recommend this onigiri or rice ball. She makes each onigiri after she gets an order.

Everything including this mozzarella cheese is a local product!

Usually I don't eat ramen for breakfast, but I enjoyed it  here!

How delicious the fresh apple juice here! Apples are famous local products in this area! Actually I drank 5 glasses of apple juice this time!!!

How healthy it is!

Of course I enjoyed every kind of desserts and

fruits!

As the kind is different from the one for dinner, I chose everything!!!

I really want to come back to this hotel, if it's possible, with my guests of this tour. Actually I really miss them......

■Where is "THE LAKE VIEW TOYA Nonokaze Resort （乃の風リゾート ）"?

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Spice Cafe Verodeca （スパイスカフェ ヴェロデカ）| Soup Curry | Sapporo

After visiting Chocolate Factory （白い恋人パーク）, we went to "Spice Cafe Verodeca （スパイスカフェ ヴェロデカ）", a popular soup curry restaurant for local people↓

The location is perfect. It takes a few minutes from Chocolate Factory to this restaurant!

First please choose a kind of soup, main ingredients, drink, and hotness↓

I chose monthly curry this time.

Voila!
This is "soup curry with minced lamb and Chinese chive （粗挽きラムとニラのスープカレー）",  monthly curry in March, with Kuromuma broth （黒旨）, rich broth with black sesame oil flavor.

Largely-minced lamb is great! 11 kinds of ingredients including Chinese chive, carrot, broccoli, potato are also yummy x 2!!
The broth is very rich, and I love fragrant of black sesame oil!!

It comes with rice↓

Just for reference, this is "seafood curry", monthly curry last month.
I chose Itumono （いつもの）, a regular broth.
If you like seafood, you must love it!

How about "ton toro nikomi （とんトロ煮込み）", soup curry with simmered tender pork?
I chose tomato based broth （うまトマ）. Tomato broth goes well with tender pork!

I always order Lassi, yogurt drink, when I eat soup curry.

My guests from Hawaii were so happy to enjoy delicious soup curry here.
I know tourist restaurants are good, but most of my guests want to enjoy popular restaurants and cafes that local people, not tourists, visit.
I think "Spice Cafe Verodeca （スパイスカフェ ヴェロデカ）" is one of them!

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Chinese Kitchen Koka （中國厨房 広華）| Kucchan （倶知安）

After enjoying snowboarding in Niseko （ニセコ）, I dropped by "Chinese Kitchen Koka （中國厨房 広華）"

near JR Kucchan Station.

See? It's near the station.

 Hello!

As Niseko is a world-famous ski resort, menus in restaurants in this area are usually written in English and Japanese like this. Wonderful!

I ordered "Seafood Ramen Noodles （海鮮餡かけラーメン（塩味））", the most popular dish for lunch here.

The soup is clear, and tastes very seafood. I love it!

Hokkaido is famous for its seafood↓
We can enjoy ramen, a popular local food, and seafood at the same time! Perfect!

Noodles are flat like this, and go well with the thick starchy sauce. Yummy x 2!!

I'll be back here next year.
(The ski and snowboard season is about to fish in Hokkaido......)

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