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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.
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This is a tiny cake Cassie got me for Valentine’s Day. That’s right – she got it for me. In Japan, Valentine’s Day is a day when women give men chocolate – usually in the form of some sort of baked good. Men give women chocolate on White Day, March 14.
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One of our favorite restaurants in Hakodate is this place Ohana, a Hawaiian restaurant. It’s really fun now having had Hawaiian food in Los Angeles, in Hawaii, and now in Japan, and getting to see the subtle variations between locations. This one had a distinctly Japanese spin, with loads of shredded nori, and as much octopus as it had fish!
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We got this ice cream cone at a planetarium in Tokyo – obviously themed after outer space. I’m not normally a big fan of cotton candy, but the way it was stuffed into the cone so each bite got some of it and some ice cream? Spectacular.
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Aren’t these so fun? There’s this donut place called Mister Donut that’s known for their decorated donuts – we got these two during a Pokémon tie-in event!
