Tourist attractions
Food
Hokkaido is blessed with a rich feast of delicacies: ramen noodles, Jingisukan mutton barbecue, fresh seafood including crabs,
delicious agri- and farm products, dairy confectionaries, etc.
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Jingisukan
Jingisukan is a doom shaped grill cooker, cook lamb and green vegetable together local Hokkaido cuisine.
Local store will sell jingisukan cooker which is not required to be washed, most favorable by local people, especingially in Hokkaido.
Jingisukan lamb dishes has the choice of tender meat called lamb or the matured meat called mutton. It can go with different spice and sauce from various restaurants.
You can also cook it with ramen and udon. Different restaurant cook it differently and it is also the charm of Jingisukan grill. In different restaurants, you could taste different parts of the lamb, mixed with different sauce .
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Ramen
You must try ramen who you are in Hokkaido, Hokkaido ramen has even been classified as japan nation’s heritage.
Sapporo’s miso ramen, Hakodate’s salt ramen, Asahikawa’s soy sauce ramen been named the top 3 ramen in Hokkaido. Recent years, other than the mentioned ramen, various local ramen has added to the ramen culture.
Soup and noodle mixed with all sorts of ingredients are Hokkaido’s ramen. To choose between the traditional style ramen or the new improved ingredients ramen is Hokkaido’s charm too. -
Beer
Low temperature area like Hokkaido, is very suitable for producing beer.
Beer manufacturers like Sapporo Beer, Kirin Beer, Asahi Beer all set up their local factory in Sapporo. And Sapporo local beers are also favorable, would be good presents for family and friends.
Summer in Sapporo Centre, Odori park will hold Beer Festival. Sapporo beer garden you could taste local beer as well as the Jingisukan. Beer lovers must try it. -
Soup Curry
Soup curry originate from Hokkaido, it’s a soup style curry, mix with many spice and very tasty.
Ingredients normally comes with big pieces of meat. Chicken soup curry will come with one whole chicken thigh, vegetables will normally be potato, red grape, green chili, and it will be cooked till tender. And they don’t put curry sauce direct on top of rice. But separate them, dip the rice into curry soup.
Starting from Sapporo, now Hokkaido has all sorts of curry soup eatery. From mild medium to strong curry, sure will have one type suits you. -
Sushi
Whenever visit Hokkaido, Sushi is a must dishes for everyone.
Japan is surrounded by Japan Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Sea of Okhotsk and has good resources of various seafood.
Not only good taste, but the freshness of seafood you could only taste in Hokkaido, and you must try it while you are here.
If you like to learn how to cut raw fish Japanese way, please visit the sushi restaurants. If a group or family like to taste sushi, rotary sushi bar will be a suitable choice.
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Sweets
Hokkaido has all sorts of sweets, even been named as kingdom of sweets for some time.
High quality rural farm products and dairy products mixed with various ingredients makes it very tasty.
Especially they use fresh cow milk, butter, cheese, wheat and egg to create the western style sweets gained high reputation worldwide, Sweet delicate shops sell all sorts of sweets which you could have a wide choice when visiting Hokkaido.