Curry Soba & Fresh Vegetable Tempura | Fureai-Soko （ふれあい倉庫） | Tobetsu

Tobetsu is an agricultural town, 30 mins away from Sapporo.
Today I'll show you "Fureai-Soko", which means a communication warehouse, featuring their local vegetables mainly!

Look at the fresh local products! The items are from the standard vegetables such as spinach to............

ingredients for pickles such as cabbages, daikon radishes and turnips to............

something unique such as iceplants like this↓
All of them are local products.

You can also buy the local juice, rice and so on!

One of my friend recommends this soba noodle shop and that's why I came here today!

First, we checked the menu. I want to eat something very local!

I've found the great one; soba noodles with fresh (morning-picked) vegetable tempura! Sounds perfect to me!

And we ordered the "soup curry soba" which my friends recommends. The board has producers' names of vegetables that the restaurant uses. I like this idea.

 The curry soba is so famous that some magazines feature the restaurant!

Here comes the unique noodles!

The meat and vegetables on the curry soup is produced here in Tobetsu. The combination of curry and soba is rare, but it's very good! You must love it!

The set includes the tomato juice, which is produced by a local farmer. This is really rich and thick! Yummy x 2!

This is a tempura soba set!

The soba noodles are thicker than the normal ones.

This is what we were waiting for! The vegetables were picked this morning. The fresh ones tastes very different, delicious, marvelous, super, and wonderful!

Last, but not least we enjoyed the soba soup.

I love seasonal foods which are not available anywhere!

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HUG Mart & Eat （北海道産食彩HUGマート・イート）| Hokkaido Food Market & Eat-in Corner | Tanukikoji in Sapporo

"HUG" is a food market filled with Hokkaido products such as local vegetables and other ingredients, located in the Tanukikoji shopping arcade, which extends 1 km east-west from the West 1 block to the West 7 block.

It consists of two sections; the "HUG Market" and the "HUG Eat". 
The HUG Mart is a kind of supermarket dealing with local products. Hokkaido is famous for delicious vegetables and dairy products, and you can buy high-quality products at reasonable prices.

The HUG Eat is an eat-in corner and you can select what you want to eat among several restaurants, featuring Hokkaido ingredients.
I visited there with my friends and shared the items with each other!

Today's choices are............
■Kan-no-Kaori (Korean bar)

・Bibimbap
It's a Korean dish: hot rice mixed with seasoned vegetables. I love the crispy rice part!

■Sapporo Sushi Tatsu (sushi bar)

・Seafood bowl
You can eat it at a reasonable rice!

■Ooakkeshi (Oyster bar)
Akkeshi is famous as a oyster production site, located in the eastern part of Hokkaido. The bar uses big oysters caught in the town.

・Oyster rice
Look at it! We enjoyed the huge oysters and rice absorbed oyster juice!

・Grilled hokke (Atka mackerel)
Hokke is a popular fish in Hokkaido. It's also HUGE!!!!

・Sanma (Saury) sushi
Rice is rolled with grilled sanma. It goes well with beer because it's a little bit spicy.

・Deep-fried oyster

We really enjoyed oyster juice! Yummy x 2!

・Raw oyster

I don't have to explain about it. This is the king of oyster dishes!

■Grass Land (Shiraoi beef bar)
Shiraoi is famous as a beef production site, located in the southern part of Hokkaido. The bar has several items, using the brand beef.

・Shiraoi beef hamburger NEO

The set includes fried potatoes, which were produced in Hokkaido and very sweet!

The hamburger includes local cheese and vegetables.

Yummy x 2!

Except the restaurants we used today, you can find a soba noodle bar, a yakitori (grilled chicken) bar, a wine bar, a pork bowl bar, and sweets corner in the HUG Eat, featuring Hokkaido ingredients!

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Sankaku Fish Market （三角市場）| Otaru

This small seafood market conveniently located to the left of JR Otaru station. A lot of tourists and local people are looking for fresh seafood. Opened from 8am to 6pm, it is a good place to shop and eat locally-caught fish!

It is named the Sankaku (triangle) Fish Market because this market space is triangular :-)

It has tens of seafood shops and restaurants on the gentle slope and I recommend to go up the market like this!

I'll show you some of the typical seafood caught in Otaru in June.

■Atka mackerel
We usually salt and grill it, but if it is fresh, I recommend to eat it as sashimi!

They are dried Atka mackerels which are usually more popular than the raw ones at restaurants or home.

■Crab

Look at the alive hairy crabs and king crabs in the sea water tank! Yummy x 2!!!

■Sea urchin
This is local sea urchin preserved in the sterilized sea water! The sea urchin season has just begun in Otaru!

■Shako (Mantis prawn)
They are very famous prawns in Otaru. The seasons of the prawn called Shako are the spring and the fall. The Shako Festival is held here in Otaru in the autumn time every year!

■Ikura (Salmon Roe)
The main season of the roe called Ikura is the autumn time, but sold in this market. How rare it is!

■Scallop
They are alive in the sea water tank! It's sweet, big and thick! You can eat it as sashimi on the spot if you want. The store clerks get scallop eyes from the shells and cut them for you!

■Oyster
I love to eat it raw with a little bit lemon juice! Do you agree with me??

■Hoya (Sea squirt)
They are alive in the sea water again! Try to eat it raw! It is naturally sweet! The inside of Hoya is bright orange!

■Botanebi prawn
This prawn is one of the popular sushi ingredients in Otaru! It's much bigger  and tastier than a sweet shrimp!

There are a few seafood restaurants in the market and you can eat seafood bowls, sashimi and so on.
(*If you are interested in "Dining Takeda （味処 たけだ）"↓ run by a fish shop, please refer to my other post→click here! We ate three kinds of seafood bowl here!)

The owner of this restaurant also owns a fish shop in front of it. Once the customers order something, the chef comes to his fish store, gets fresh ingredients there and starts to cook them. Perfect!!!

If you love sashimi, I recommend a sashimi bowl like this↓

When you find this shop, this is the goal!

Plz come to this fish market next to the JR Otaru station and enjoy the local seafood!

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