Showing posts with label Otaru. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Otaru. Show all posts

Friday, December 26, 2014

Where to Eat: Fishmarket beside the Train Station

Dec 15, 2014

Just beside the Otaru JR Train Station, on the right hand side (looking at the Otaru Train Station from the front), there is small stairs case, and that lead up to 三角市场 Seafood Market.

You can buy fresh seafood in there, as well as restaurant that will cook the seafood you bought in there.

Let’s try it out!

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We found this restaurant.  Got a lot of people in it.

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The owner of the restaurant.

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It can’t go wrong when you see lots of photos and signature of the famous people hanging on the wall.

That means this has to be a famous store, and many famous people came here to taste the food.

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I had never eaten the king crab before.  I could not possibly eat this in Singapore because it cost a bomb to eat it.

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Let’s choose one and steam it.

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This is the one I chosen.  Very fierce.

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Ya… I am going to eat you later.

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Let’s talk about the Uni and how we get them.  While they cooking the king crab.

When you are in this kind of fresh seafood store, and when you need to buy the Uni, do not buy the one I am holding it in my hand.

That kind of packaging always add some food addictive in the Uni to preserve the freshness.

(The one holding in the hand, contains food addictive)

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What you should buy is this sort of packaging.  You thought why they vacuum sealed it/?  But these one is fresh and without any food additive.

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I don’t know what are those.

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The Uni taste really good.

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It looks good too!

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My son Kay Kay eating a big bowl of fish roes rice again.

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This one not so nice.  Very hard to chew.

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Finally, our steam crab is here.

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See the size of the crab?

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We are going to eat you!

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We need these tools to eat it.

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It looks hard on the shell.  But actually, it is soft.

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After few minutes later, this crab has no legs.  All eaten by us.

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So, let’s open the shell and sea side.

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Not everything we can eat.  We threw away the gills.

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Let’s cut it open and distribute out.

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The crab, not sure how to describe it, it is very good and delicious.

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And we finished it all again.

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Every one is happy and say good!

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Thursday, December 25, 2014

Where to Eat: Aozuka Shokudou 民宿 青塚食堂

Date:  Dec 14, 2014

This is probably one of the best seafood restaurant in Otaru, Hokkaido.

http://www2.odn.ne.jp/aotuka/

We met up with 4 of Jay Jay’s K2 buddies & families in Otaru the other day.

And I suggested we eat fresh seafood at this restaurant.

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When I come to Otaru, I will always have at least a meal here.

You can take a bus to go to 祝津水族馆 (Otaru Aquarium) and the restaurant is at the exit route from the Aquarium.

In fact there are a few restaurant there.  The seafood is so fresh, and it does not matter where you eat.  But if you need to have some cook food, this Aozuka restaurant is one of the famous one.

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This is number 1 reason why I always come back to this restaurant.  Because the Uni (Sea Urchins) are so fresh and taste so good here.

That day, we ordered 3 boxes.  In Singapore, you pay $30-$50 for 1/4 of a box.  Here, you pay $30 for the entire box.

Now you know what is called cheap to eat in Japan.

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This are the sashimi.  In the middle is the famous 八角鱼.  

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That day, we ordered a lot a lot of things.  It was delicious.

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The food keep coming in.  And I can’t believe that we eat it all.

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 Kay Kay’s favourite Ikura.

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Kay Kay loves to eat this.  Every where he goes and if we can find Uni and Ikura.  We will order that for him.  It does not matter if it comes in a big bowl.  Kay Kay can probably finish the whole thing.

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We also order beer an oSake.  This Osake is very nice.

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Jay Jay is dismantling the big raw prawns.

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The fish. is not too bad.

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Big oysters.

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 Every one loves it!  

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