We started our morning in Otaru by heading to Sankaku Market (小樽三角市場) to have our breakfast. Apparently no trip to Otaru is complete without having a fill of fresh caught seafood on rice (kaisendon). It was only 10 minutes from our hotel.
The market was not as crowded as I expected. We went to the first shop on the right. They have a Taiwanese staff whom we can communicate in Mandarin better. Our breakfast cost us ¥6,900. Unfortunately, the husband did not get to eat anything there. Hence, on our way back to the hotel, we stopped by Burger King. The guys ordered two set meals which cost us ¥1,020. The fries were really good though.
We came across a railway track close to our hotel. We stopped for a very long time to take photography that we did not get to walk to Otaru Canal. We had to check out and pick up our car before we were charged more for exceeding the time. By the time we left Otaru, it was already after 12pm.
We made a pit stop at Nikka Whiskey Distillery in the town of Yoichi. It is only 30 minutes drive from Otaru. There are tours around the distillery but only Japanese. Since we do not understand Japanese, we walked through the sections of exhibits on our own and ended off with a free set of 3 whiskeys to taste. They were really generous even though it is free.
As it was already close to 2.30pm when we finished the whole thing, we decided to stay for late lunch/early dinner since it will take 3.5 hours drive to our next destination. They have a restaurant at the premise that serves decent dishes– Cafe Restaurant Taru and the meal cost us ¥5,890. Surprisingly the spaghetti was really good though.
It was 7pm-ish when we arrived Hakodate. We went to our AirBnB to drop our bags before we went to have our late dinner/supper at Daimon Yokocho. It seems to be the largest food stall village in Hokkaido. There are many different kinds of restaurant, selling different types of food. We had a hard time to decide where to eat as we are a big group and the stalls are really small. It is like the ramen stall you see in Naruto. It rained suddenly and we had no choice but to enter this random ramen stall located opposite of Daimon Yokocho spotted by the guys. Lucky for us, it fits all of us. They only serve one type of ramen, Shio Ramen. I wonder if that’s their menu or because it was already late that there were not much choices left. Guess what? The ramen was really good! The noodles were really chewy and the taste of the soup was right. We wanted a rolled egg so we ordered “Tamago” with lady boss. She then came with an egg that was not ripe. That’s when we learned that rolled egg is “Tamago-yaki” in Japanese. 5 Shio Ramen cost us ¥2,750. It was indeed affordable.
As we saw someone waited outside the stall, we decided to make our move and walked back to Daimon Yokocho since the rain had stopped. We randomly entered a stall that could fit all of us, ordered a few snacks and just spending quality time together. It was about 10pm when we left the place to a convenience store, LAWSON, to buy some ingredients for our breakfast tomorrow. What did we have for breakfast? Who was the chef?
Find out in my next post!
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