• the mother of all tonkatsu meals

    esta shopping center, like all shopping centers in japan, has a restaurant floor so we walked up there to look at our options.  there’s soup curry, okonomiyaki, ramen, chinese and tonkatsu.  we’ve had our share of tonkatsu over the first…

  • pork bowl lunching at butadon ippin

    this was our first meal in sapporo for this leg of the trip and haha was looking for a donburi place.  butadon ippin is a pork rice bowl chain and they had a location just down the street from where…

  • weekly recap #4 – sapporo

    q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. sapporo (university district) for 1 week, extended to 11 nights q. favourite meal a. crisp tonkatsu with equally crispy cabbage and three kinds of rice.  dericious.  even more dericious…

  • looking back at kiroro’s epic storm week

    so after just one day of riding i had kiroro and niseko at neck and neck however i had a feeling that that was going to change very quickly.  i got up the next day and though there was a…