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There’s a wonderful crepe shop in the red brick warehouses in Hakodate that we’ve been to a couple times now. It has savory crepes too, but so far we’ve only had the dessert ones.
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We got these from a patisserie in Sapporo. Shine Muscat grapes are like, one of the most popular fruits in Japan and you can find them in everything; I never would’ve thought to do a grape cake, but it was lovely. The giant strawberry mousse in the shape of a strawberry was also very good.
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Cassie and I are both big fans of Japanese curry. For those of you who haven’t had it, it’s very different than a Thai or Indian curry; it’s thicker, sweeter, and barely has any spice to it at all. (Fun trivia: they consider it a Western food, because they got it via the UK, not India.) This specific curry is from our favorite restaurant, Ohana.
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This was some pork from an Okinawan restaurant we went to – our host ordered for us so I don’t know the exact name. But it was so outrageously tender, you could cut it with a wooden chopstick. Absolutely incredible.
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This was a little pudding cup we got at a patisserie in a grocery store. There are so many treats like this; Japan takes the appearance of their desserts as seriously as they take the taste.
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This is an otoshi – basically a small collection of snacks that you get at lots of restaurants as an appetizer – think like the chips and salsa at a Mexican restaurant. This specific one comes from Ohana, our favorite restaurant, but it changes every time we go, there’s no set collection of snacks.
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Soup curry is a lovely Hokkaido specialty; like a watered-down Japanese curry that is loaded with vegetables. This is from a small chain in Hokkaido called Ramai that we really recommend, but we’ve had soup curry a couple places now and it’s always one of my favorite dishes.
