Damn SHIOK! Our first brunch in the land of the rising sun. We were dreaming of sashimi and seafood for days before the Great Japan Trip and Hakodate didn't disappoint, and therefore, deserve a mention here.
First, a view of Hakodate from Mt. Hakodate.
[All photos here taken by Lorrine and Tong]
Seafood Stall/Mini restaurant located in this neighbourhood, near the Japan Rail (JR) Station.
When you go to supermarkets, the aunties always feed you food samplers to entice you to buy. Well this is the equivalent Crab Sampler. We did contemplate going to every seafood stall to try their crab offerings and make that a free and delicious brunch session. But we didn't.
Here are my friends posing with the bigger crabs, but we didn't have them as they were quite pricey.
Viola! Our fresh and sweetly steamed Crab! Smaller than the above crabs, but quite enough for us, still quite enormous! Check out friend's hand (the smaller and farther hand) next to crab leg for scale.
Besides the crab, I really liked the Scallop Sashimi. Very Sweet too. We tried to order as much food as we could finish. We also had chirashi sets of sea urchin, squid, fish roe, which were local specialities. There were also grilled mackeral and delicious crab-flavoured miso soup. I'm getting hungry now just from recording all these down.
We were splitting equally the bill of the seafood brunch. I had whined on and on about Scallops. My dear friend initially converted incorrectly the price of one scallop, and thought it translated to about SGD60 For One Scallop, but since I love scallops so much, decided to let me order it anyway. Going by prices, one teeny weeny scallop = one giant crab. The actual price was about one-tenth. But thank you anyway, my dear dear friend Karen, for indulging me.
Happy troopers, we all were. Of course, we did many other things in Japan too, but I'll leave that for another day. That was great food & company!
2 comments:
Great blogging!
Oh gawds, im wiping saliva off my laptop as we speak. Bring on the hakodate crabs !!!! Oooohhhhyuuummyyyhummmy.......Jit loves me, considering how much adspace ive received of me constantly eating. Shes still eternally grateful over the scallops. Strange how there's no pic of Jitty swooning over them tho. May i just add those darn scallops, crabs were the best things ive tasted on this planet ! And oh how could we forget the cute jap fisher-boy! I never knew orange overalls could look SO hot !
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