Daikokutei-guest house and restaurant in Hakodate

After two sessions of surfing and driving, we were so exhausted when we arrived at this guest house.

Time to eat!!! Foods we had here never made us disappointed , the more we ate, our appetite

got bigger and bigger.  The price is reasonable!!

Cold beer and young yellow tail

Rice ball with Love

Eggplant with miso vinegar and cheese

Jap style omelette ¥650

Squid sashimi, tender and excellent !

                                                                                            Real size is triple of this ¥600

Whole grilled squid

Juicy fried oyster

Menagawa surf got bigger. (女那川サーフィン)

Today the surf was affected by Typhoon 20th swell.

Menagawa got bigger in late morning, I like Menagawa situation because of the river.

We get cross to paddle out and in, the river water is cool and clean.

Menagawa river mouth

Menagawa beach

Hakodate surfing trip - Todohokke (椴法華) was good!

Early start for Hakodate surfing trip via Shiraoi,

It seems a nice day and quite warm.

Welcome to Noboribrtu hot springs

Back ground is active 2 active volcanos

MORI is famous for Ika meshi,stuffed squid 

                                                                                            rice

Todohokke

Japanese style

Autumn festival @Sapporo Oodori Park

A food festival from all over Hokkaido, it has started mid Sep. and open till 4th Oct.

I don't know how many stalls are set up in several blocks  of the entire park.

Sea urchin!!!Yum

Clam

Beef satay

Octopus dumpling from Otaru

Sapporo Asahiyama Park

SereChia-Italian restaurant Minami

It just a few minutes walk from where we live, there is a cozy Italian restaurant.

We saw only one chef in the kitchen but we didn't wait for the serve too long. 

Taste is not bad at all, specially the roast black pork was so brilliant , pizza has good taste and pie base is not crispy one but is thin enough.

Antipasto

Margarita pizza

Black pork (Ebetsu)

Looking for Typhoon 18th swell ーMonbetsu, Higashishizunai

Typhoon hit the south-east coast of Hokkaido so  I was expecting a reasonable left over swell.

But the strong gusty winds destroyed the wave condition, ummmmh.

Lumpy , bumpy ocean spread all over the coast.

Monbetsu wharf from Monbetsu shrine

Higashishizunai wharf

Zucchini ¥100 sold at Hidaka road station

Chilli salt ramen, Chashu(pork) was

                                                                                            thick but tender as..yum!

   SOFT CREAM , must have it to finish the day!!!

Looking for a surf from Hamaatsuma to Tomikawa

Looking for uncrowded surf in a clean water continues driving down. Uncrowded but not breaking!!

Sheep's first overseas trip at Monbetsu warf.

Tomikawa shrine

Tomikawa shrine

Hamaatsuma Surfing

The best surfing spot close to Sapporo is Hamaatsuma.  Recently the council built the toilet with outside taps. (But no shower)

When I say the best, I am talking about the quality of the shape of the surf.

I don't paddled out into Hamaatsuma break even looking great.

Because this is one of the worst polluted surf point.   The colour of the ocean never be clear,

there is an oil related factory near-by, I got itchy eyes and skin problem years ago after surfing here.

Of course it is up to you to surf here or avoid.

Always super crowded, crazy...

Eating in Otaru

'Otaru city is now an international city to attract domestic and foreign tourists.

The last time when I visited Otaru was , ohhhhh 23year ago,  I guess.

I won't talk about the sightseeing in Otaru, some Otaru site tells you how to walk and what to see.

Anyway I show you here the foods we had today after surfing.

The most famous soft cream shop in Otaru for over 30years.  These vanilla soft creams are regular

size and ¥260, the shop has 4 different size. Regular size is the smallest.

Otaru is famous for Japanese-Chinese style special fried noodle. Jidaiya serves seafood(prawn &

Scalop) , for the taste , selection of the English mustard ,homemade special chili vinegar or

special homemade chili miso sauce. ¥850

Otaru beer was founded in1995. I bought few beers to take away.

FUGOPPE surfing and historical sites (フゴッペ サーフィンと史跡)

The first autumn surfing  was at Fugoppe, near Otaru.

When we paddled in, the wave was small but managed to surf but one hour later the wind picked up so strong.

The temperature was around 19.5c

This was much later at Fugoppe

There are historical sites around here, one is Fugoppe Cave and the other one is

Nishisakiyama stone circle.   In a cave they found approximately 800 engravings dated back to

1-5AD century.

Fugoppe cave behind the museum

Nishisakiyama stone circle is at the top of the hill.

Flying over Japan with Malaysia Airlines

Even after two recent accidents , I am still a big fun of Malaysia airlines.

One of the reason is the variety of the special meal request, and this time I noticed that they changed

to a new menu for all category. 

 

Asian vege.meal is now Nasi lemak,it is quit hot but much much better than Air Asia Nasi lemak.

Flying over Miyazaki, Kyushu

Flying over Kochi, Shikoku

 Flying over Lake Biwa, Honshu