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San Sai : mountain vegetables

By discover niseko | May 23, 2010

Spring Mountain Flavour Recipes In spring when the snow has melted one thing that many people do is get out in the mountains and gather the regrowth of plants. A few that are fairly easy to find in Niseko are takenoco [bamboo shoots] udo,  fuki, and gyoja ninniku[Ainu garlic]. Below are a few pictures of [...]

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On The Road

By Joel | May 17, 2010

Travel opportunities abound in Hokkaido whether your on a day trip or a month long excursion. Throughout the island you can find beautiful coastlines, lakes forests and rivers and usually not far from any of these places is a delightful village. The ease of which you can explore Hokkaido is fantastic and simply following your [...]

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Autumn Fish

By Simon | October 17, 2009

Sanma or Pacific Saury is one of the many autumn foods that you get in abundance in Japan. It is cheap and can be eaten raw as sashimi or sushi(mmmm:) and cooked in various ways from baked, bbq’ed or in Sanma Takikomi Gohan [Japanese Mixed Rice with Pacific Saury] which you can cook by following [...]

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Autumn Flavours

By Simon | October 2, 2009

It took a while but I have finally excepted that autumn is here and winter is just around the corner. So without any further a do I would like to introduce Autumn Flavours the new section of this blog devoted to autumn food. So what’s in the pot and on the table this time of [...]

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