Japan
weekly recap #5 – sapporo and tokyo
q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. sapporo (same airbnb), tokyo (3 night sairbnb in shinjuku) q. favourite meal a. butayaro. they have one item on the menu, all you have to do is pick your…
craft beer in sapporo
i miss a lot of things from home and at the risk of sounding like an alcoholic, beer is definitely on that list. i love an icy cold sapporo after a day on the mountain as much as the next…
getting our onsen on at hoheikyo onsen
Last Monday we decided to check out Hoheikyo onsen. The main attraction for us was the authentic East Indian food served onsite. Yes, we make all decisions with our stomachs. We get our onsen and bus tickets from the info centre…
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…
Unusual Airbnb Listings
While browsing through Airbnb listing for Tokyo this morning, I came across some interesting listings. The above listing is in Tokyo. $25 per night for a completely unfinished unit, what a deal! Fuzzy photo of umbrellas is not really selling…
First Home Cooked Meal
I miss cooking. Have not puttered around the kitchen for more than a month and I really miss it. Plus we need a break from eating out. We had planned to make the spicy vermicelli dish from Delicious One but…
the infamous kiroro migration
talk about a hectic morning. last sunday was our checkout from sapporo and checkin at otaru however the snow forecast had a sizable dump coming to all of the coastal mountains around sapporo. as the winds were coming in from…
