Stuff I've Eaten - Hakodate

more salad

pickled Japanese eggplant.
I am mystified that this can be so good when regular eggplant is so shit.
They must be different species and the translation is a weird mistake.

pepper cheezu

individually wrapped like candies

garlic string cheezu

berry american scone

more cheese tarts

this time with a blueberry filling

deep fried fish jizz!
tempura sperm sacks at any rate.

I went to a seafood restaurant in the basement of the hotel complex for my last night in Sapporo, they had a squid tank out the front.

The menu was entirely in handwritten japanese, so I'm frankly amazed I got anything to eat, but between my poor japanese, the camera translation app on my phone barely working, and the waiter's poor english, I ordered some stuff.

Uni

Ika somen

Schrodinger's Squid: Is he alive, despite having his head cut off, or is it just twitching left in his tentacles?

Definitely dead now that his head has been tempura-d

Hairy crab leg sashimi

grilled rest of crab

Buffet breakfast, including Hokkaido shaped egg, and all you can eat Ikura.

Three types of crab Eki-ben on the train to Hakodate.

Yuzu drink

There is a restaurant called Uni Murakami at the fish market that is supposedly very good. I tried my luck and managed to get a seat, which was good since
a) I was in a town that seemed to have 5 whole restaurants, and tomorrow was valentine's day,
and
b) The following night is the night of the week it is closed.

Sapporo beer and tea

Uni and small shrimp, with miso soup

Uni wanton soup

Ika sashimi

grilled Uni

small shrimp tempura

Uni tempura

some sort of milk apple dessert boasting local ingredients

Apple flan! The flavor filled Mexican dessert.

Melon jelly

An $8 albino strawberry.
It was good, but probably not $8 good.

7 kinds of Seafood on rice, plus crab miso.
Clockwise from the top: Hotate, Salmon, Abalone, Botan ebi, Uni, Crab, Ikura.

Hot chocolate.

Some sort of Hokkaido chocolate bar, the melon version.

It's okay.

For dinner, I ended up at a place in the fish market that was still open, a lot of the vendors will cook what you buy for you. I got a crab that was about 2.5 kg and opted for half BBQ, half boiled.

The grilled half.

The boiled half.

After it was cut up.

The damage.

FWIW, BBQ is a bit drier (less moist might be the better way to put it since it was by no means dry) than boiled, but retains more of the flavor. The lack of moisture isn't a problem with a crab that was alive 5 minutes ago, so just go with BBQ.