Sendoan （お食事処 仙堂庵）| Japanese Food | Lake Toya （洞爺湖）

As my guests wanted to eat Japanese food in Lake Toya area, I chose "Sendoan （お食事処 仙堂庵）"  for them.
The restaurant is on the 2nd floor of "Wakasaimo （わかさいも）", a famous sweet shop in Hokkaido.

Let's go upstairs!!

This restaurant is located by Lake Toya, and

we enjoyed the lake from our seat.

See!?
The location is perfect!!!

Some of my guests wanted to eat local dishes in Hokkaido, and some wanted to eat general Japanese dishes. Look at the menu↓ This restaurant can meet everybody's request!!!

I ordered a "Steamed Sea Urchin and Scallop Rice Set （特製うに・ほたて御膳）"↓
This area is famous for its scallops. Yummy x 2!!!

The rice below the seafood absorbed delicious seafood juice!!! I love it!!

One of my guests ordered a "Scallop and Salmon Roe Bowl （噴火湾ホタテといくら丼）"↓
The scallops are very fresh and very sweet!!!

We had a wonderful lunch time at this lake-view restaurant here!

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Ajidokoro Teppei （味処 てっ平）| Pork Cutlets | Tomakomai （苫小牧）

After enjoying Lake Shikotsu, we went to Tomakomai （苫小牧） to enjoy delicious tonkatsu, or pork cutlets, based on requests from my guests.
This is Ajidokoro Teppei （味処 てっ平）, a very popular tontatsu restaurant in this area↓

I really miss him!!
This is a character of the restaurant! When I lived in the city, we sometimes came here and enjoyed delicious tontatsu!!!

Wow! Wow! Wow!
We visited here a little bit later than lunch hours, but the restaurant was packed with a lot of people!!!!
As I know this is a very popular restaurant, I've already made a reservation for us.....

This is the menu for lunch↓

Look at a perfect set with cutlets of prawn, squid, scallop, fish, and pork fillet.! I really wanted to try everything!!

Using the time they cook, we enjoyed grinding sesames.........

After finishing it,

please pour special tonkatsu sauce like this!

After a while, they served rice and

miso soup, which means here will come tonkatus very soon!!! Hahaha!

Voila!!
This is a set A!!!

The double prawn tonkatsu is yummy x 2!!! So is the fish one!!!

Squid usually becomes chewy when it is heated, but this one is very soft. How do they cook it????

The scallop is caught off this town.
Yes!
Tomakomai city is along the sea coast, and the bay here is famous for scallops and Sakhalin surf clams!!!

This pork fillet tonkatsu is super super recommendable!! You don't have to bite it! The meat is very tender!!! We're sure they use high quality of meat!!!

We had a wonderful lunch time together!!!

■Where is "Ajidokoro Teppei （味処 てっ平）"?

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Aozuka Shokudou （民宿 青塚食堂）| Seafood Restaurant | Otaru

There are a lot of recommendable seafood restaurants in Otaru, and "Aozuka Shokudou （民宿 青塚食堂）" is one of them, serving very fresh seafood, and located near Panorama Observatory （パノラマ展望台）.

Look at the ocean just in front of the restaurant! How beautiful it is!

Let's enter it!
Wow! Wow! Wow! It is always packed with a lot of seafood lovers like this↓

One of the attractions there is their cooking style. We can enjoy fresh seafood cooked in front of us! How yummy it is!

There are a lot of seafood dishes served in this restaurant, and one of my guests ordered............

a "grilled squid set special （イカ焼き定食スペシャル）"↓ The squid is really juicy and recommendable!!

The other guest ordered a "grilled Hakkaku rockfish set special （八角焼き定食スペシャル）". Hakkaku is local fish caught off Otaru area only. Sounds very Hokkaido, doesn't it?

They also shared this seafood bowl named "Hokkai bowl （北海丼）", which has salmon roe, scallop, and seasoned hearing topped on the rice. Great choice, isn't it?

Voila!
I ordered a "fresh scallop bowl set （生ホタテ丼）".

As it is very fresh, we can eat everything in the shell as sashimi (or raw)!!! I love this really big and thick local scallop!! 

This is a "Atka Mackerel set （ホッケ定食）"↓

The fish is loved by local people, because it is very fatty, and goes well with beer.

Do you like whelk （つぶ）, a local shellfish?

If you love sea urchin （うに）, how about a "salmon and sea urchin bowl （サーモンうに丼）"?

Yummy x 2!!!

Don't miss a giant abalone!!!

I really love channel rockfish （キンキ）, too↓ This is the king of the grilled fish!!

Don't forget assorted sashimi （刺身盛り合わせ）?

How do you like the restaurant? You must love it!

■Where is "Aozuka Shokudou （民宿 青塚食堂）?

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Sushi-Making Experience | Otaru Tatsumi Zushi （おたる巽鮨）| Sushi Bar in Otaru

Otaru is a coastal  city and famous for fresh seafood. Near the downtown area, it has the Sushi Street, where you can enjoy tens of sushi bars.

Would you like to eat delicious sushi made by professional sushi chefs or try to make sushi by yourself ?

Actually, sushi-making experience is very exciting for tourists. I'll show you Otaru Tatsumi Zushi, where normal people can experience to make sushi with the help of professional sushi masters.

Seafood caught off Otaru is very fresh!

 In other words, sushi really depends on your skills! Hahaha!

This is what I made! How do you like it?

If you'd like to know the details, please refer to the YouTube!


Interesting, isn't it?

Of course, you can enjoy sushi the professional chefs make........

 

■Where is Tatsumi Zushi （巽鮨）?

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