LeTAO (Main Shop & PATHOS) in Otaru

LeTAO is one of the famous and popular confectionery companies in Hokkaido. There are several shops of LeTAO on Sakai-machi main street （堺町本通り） in Otaru.
We visited the main shop, across from Otaru Music Box Museum, the other day.

If you like hot chocolate, I recommend this "CHOCOLATE DRINK BAR" in the shop!

You can enjoy freshly-made chocolate drink!

I like bitter one, but you can select from sweet to mild to bitter drink.

The most popular product here is Fromage Double（ドゥーブルブルフロマージュ）; a double layered cheesecake with baked cream cheese and no-bake mascherpone.

I really love it!

I also recommend its fresh soft chocolate, especially white one with grape flavor （ホワイトチョコレートナイアガラ）!!!

On the second floor, you can eat its sweets including cakes.

Let me see.......... What should we eat???

We chose a strawberry cake,

and a chocolate cake,

and a cheese cake!

Don't forget chocolate drinks!
Look at the cups! They're soooooooooooooo cute!

LeTAO opened its new shop and cafe, PATHOS, on May 16th, 2011 on the same street!

It has a crape section,

a chocolate & cake section,

a bakery section,

and even a bag section!!!
SOMES Saddle Co. is the only manufacturer of equestrian gear in this country. The company has produced high-quality domestic harness and bags.

On the second floor, there is a cafe-restaurant.

I ate a Mont Blanc tart.

If you cannot choose only one dessert, how about a Double Plate (ドゥーブルプレート）, which has three kinds of their delicious cheese cake; Chocolat Frommage （ショコラフロマージュ）, Cinderella DE Fromage （シンデレラデフロマージュ）, and Double Fromage （ドゥーブルフロマージュ）, the most popular and standard one? Perfect, isn't it?

We really enjoyed their sweets :)

■Where are shops of LeTAO?

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Dining Takeda （味処 たけだ）| Seafood Dinng | Otaru

When you come to a fish market, you must eat fresh seafood sold there on the spot! I have the same idea!
On the 15th of April, we went to Sankaku Fish Market （三角市場） neat JR Otaru Station.
(* If you need some general information on the market, please refer to my other post→click here!)

"Ajidokoro Takeda （味処　たけだ）" is run by "Takeda Fish Store （武田鮮魚店）" located just in front of the dining in the same market. After getting orders, the cook picks up fresh seafood in the shop! Perfect, isn't it?

They serve a wide variety of dishes, and we were so happy!

This is an appetizer, dried squid with squid ink! Yummy x 2!!!

Voila!
This is "Sansyoku Don （三食丼）", a bowl of rice topped with three kind of fresh seafood. Actually they serve several kinds of Sansyoku Don. This is a salmon, sea urchin, and scallop version. How appetizing it is!!

This is also Sansyoku Don with scallop, Botan prawn, and king crab! Do you think it has everything you want to eat? Hahaha!

I ordered a sea urchin bowl （旬の生うに食べ比べ丼）. It has two kinds of sea urchin, and we can compare with each other! I really love horse-dung sea urchin （バフンウニ）. Are you surprised to hear the name? Unlike the sound, it tastes super delicious!!!

All of the lunch comes with this crab soup! Wow! Wow! Wow!!!

Two weeks later, on the 29th of April, I came back here again with other tour guests. We ordered so many fresh seafood dishes that you must be surprised at the amount!!! Two of the guests and I ordered ...................

■Horse-dung sea urchin （バフンウニ）

This is in the best season! Yummy yummy!!

■Salmon roe （いくら）
Hokkaido reminds you of salmon, right? We must try it!!

■Botanebi prawn （ボタンエビ）
They are HUGE and fresh!!

■Scallop （ほたて）
Hokkaido scallops are very sweet and yummy x 2!!

We also ordered a half &half. Do you have any idea what we ordered here?

Voila!
■King crab (boiled)
Yes! We ordered a king crab!! We had the half boiled, and

the other grilled! What a great idea it is!!!

■Channel rockfish （きんき）
Channel rockfish caught off Abashiri （網走）, fishing town, in the eastern part of Hokkaido is supper supper juicy and fatty!!! I really recommend it!!

We really enjoyed Hokkaido fresh seafood! Hip! Hip! Hooray!!

(* If you need some general information on the market, please refer to my other post→click here!)

■Where is the Sankaku Fish Market （三角市場）?

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Bally Yatai （バリー屋台）| Food Stall Complex | Yubari

We visited a unique food stall complex located in Yubari （夕張） today, which still has snow even in April↓

"Bally Yatai （バリー屋台）" is next to "Hotel Mount Racey （ホテルマウントレースイ）", a ski resort hotel, and JR Yubari Station （JR夕張駅）.

Actually almost nobody was walking on the street around here, but when we enter the food stall complex..........

Wow! Wow! Wow! They were enjoying local food and beer inside!!!

There are eight food stalls in the complex, and we can bring any dish to the center tables.

We chose "Shikanotani 3 chome Shokudou （鹿の谷3丁目食堂） first!

There are a lot of fans for their curry soba↓

The soup with slices of pork and onions entangles with soba noodles like this↓ Yummy x 2!!!

After eating noodles, we put rice and half boiled egg into the soup, and made curry risotto♪

What a great idea!!!

Next we chose "Yubari ramen （夕張ラーメン）" to eat very special ramen!!

This is "Yubari kuro (black) ramen （夕張黒ラーメン）". What is black? Do you have any idea???

Surprisingly the noodles are black!!!!

Yubari used to flourish in the coal industry, and the city promotes something black like that!!!

■Where is "Bally Yatai （バリー屋台）"?

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