Stuff I've Eaten - Otaru -> Nagano

Hot cherry beer at the Beerhouse in Otaru

Emma drinks normal beer

Terrine meats pasta

Emma's inability to cut Pizza on full display

pickled vegetables

Green tea

Vitamin C in a soda

Good bacteria drinks

At the Steam clock there were three options for lunch, the Hello Kitty Cafe

Cake and Coffee

and Very Very Strawberry

We went with Very Very Strawberry, which as you can tell from the name is a Pizza and Pasta restaurant

Salad and a tea

dress your own salad, and not from a little bottle of dressing

Uni and butter spaghetti

Lasagne

Cocoa and Panju

Charcoal, Matcha, and Custard

A charcoal grill in Otaru near the waterfront

Deer (left), and Vegetables and Mutton (right)

pickles

Sake flight

3 types of crab

I grill the deer over the coals while Emma grills the mutton on it's own hotplate

grilled things

carnage

The "only available at the distillery" sake

Snacks made from the sake brewing leftovers. Tastes like eating malty breakfast cereal.

Plum wine

Free beer (a hotel gave it to me for only getting my sheets changed every third day)

I got a cappuccino at Otaru station 

Emma got proper breakfast

I had a Mexican avocado whopper

The one at the bottom IIRC

Crab Ekiben

The western meal in Gran Class

Coffee and pound cake

There are only two Shinkansen lines that do Gran Class.
They converge at Tokyo, so if you're going from Hakodate to Nagano you can switch from one to the other and get a second meal. 

And have Sake with your pound cake.

Breakfast at the hotel in Nagano

Bacon and Sweet corn soup

This was a chestnut bun. It has a whole chestnut on top, and chestnut goo in the middle.

The breakfast Soba noodles were fantastic

Cute character themed cakes. I was hoping they had stuff in them, alas no.

Sakura Frappuccino and Matcha and Sakura donut

Filled with Matcha goo

Steamed Buns are a local Nagano delicacy

Venison

Beef and onion

Blueberry yoghurt and chocolate truffels

They come with a special poking stick for picking them up

They have goo inside

Truffle butter chips

Katsu

Special local Nagano sauce

Trying drinks at the shooting bar that aren't available in Aus.
First up was Matcha Kaluha 

and milk

A sakura cherry liquor

on the rocks

Japanese craft Gin

and tonic

Lemon sour and bio drink

strawberry filling pastries

Breakfast

The "Spring Latte" is a Cafe Latte with Sakura powder sprinkled on it (aka pink dust that tastes like sugar)

pickles

green tea

soba noodles

Apple and chestnut pie

special origin coffee, that is "very mild in flavor" and expensive and harshly acidic

Sushi in Yudanaka Onsen, just down the street from the Ryokan 

I looked up the good Sushi place from last time, but it has sadly closed down

Post sushi snacks

The good sake from the 2nd brewery

Yoghurt Sake from the first brewery. Quite nice.

Ryokan breakfast

Peach wine

Ramen near the monkey park

Sake at the second best Sushi from last time in Yudanaka onsen

pickled radish

The omakase from the (now) best Sushi place in town

Baigai, a shell fish that they had as a special menu item

Chopped up

Hotate

We'd got through three of the little Sake bottles

when the chef recommended we switch to this

back at the ryokan, drinking Gin and Soda in the Onsen

The conbini sells the little bottles of sake which is local (ish)

winegums

other snacks

breakfast day 2

Sakura chiffon cake

A premium Gin Lemon Sour

Chips

Bread and Miso

Steak (back in Nagano)

medium rare

they do a lot of apple stuff in the area

so many different cidres are available

rice crackers

back in the same hotel

maple butter sand

maple chocolate biscuits