Back from dealing with buffet sensou with yelling Chinese tourists in Noboribetsu.\u00c2\u00a0 Figured going to a less-known property would be a safer bet against the throngs of foreign tourists, but apparently where we went was specifically marketing themselves toward the package foreign market.\u00c2\u00a0 Onsen itself was not bad, though the scenery was lame, and the baths themselves set in the concrete industrial underside of the hotel.\u00c2\u00a0 Had some good gyutan for lunch in a new place in the basement of JR Sapporo-eki, North of the Mexican restaurant.\u00c2\u00a0 Dinner was at an unremarkable ramen-ya.\u00c2\u00a0 Organic, but not all that good.\u00c2\u00a0 If you like niboshi-based broth, you’ll like it, but if you lean more toward chicken bone or pork bone bases, you’ll find it painfully fishy.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess I’m not too upset I forgot both my camera and phone in the rush to get dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s in Maruyama, around the corner from the second location that Bozu was in before he went under.\u00c2\u00a0 The place screams, “former salaryman with a dream to open a ramen restaurant”.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a centimeter or two of new snow in town, so that might be enough to get me motivated to catch the bus out to Kokusai tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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