Hokkaido Food

Japan is known for it's healthy food, but this reputation seems to be based only on sushi, because so much of Japanese food seems wholly unhealthy to me. I suppose my only idea of the food comes from dining out, and dining out all the time in any country is not going to be too good for you. However, Japanese cuisine is heavily into the fried, adding mayonnaise to everything, eating fatty meat and frying.

In Hokkaido we stayed in two ryokan, a type of Japanese traditional inn with a set breakfast and dinner. These meals consist of multiple small dishes and centred heavily on seafood. You can see above the meal which is served in the room.



This is a one person serving. You can see some tempura, sushi, rice, egg custard, vegetables, soup, prawns and other stuff. My mother doesn't actually like seafood that much, so at our second ryokan, on the second night, they seemed to adjust the menu to a more Western taste. We got some bread, as well as two types of crab, lobster, steak and sushi. This was altogether too much to eat. However we all did our best and they can be commended for effort.



Also we encountered a lot of soft serve ice cream with weird flavours, as Hokkaido is famous for dairy products. We found beer and potato flavoured ice creams, in synergistic combinations of famous fare.