Sunday Morning at the Hakodate Market....

Sunday, 26th September 2010

We woke up early Sunday morning and walked down to the Hakodate Morning Market. As pakdokter had written earlier, Hokkaido is a rich agricultural and fishery province and we expected to see a lot of these local produce at the market.

The most prominent stalls were the ones selling the famous Hakodate hairy crabs. Some of them probably weigh 5 kg or more. And you can also buy them on-line! Of course, the octopus is also abundant - after all the city is also very famous for its 'sotong'. Not much tuna was seen but some salmon was on display. Other seafood stuff like prawns, scallops and sea urchins were also available.

Hakodate is also famed for its high quality rock melon. And since it also produced dairy, their ice-cream was also available.

We took the opportunity to sample some of these local produce and delicacies...

most of the stalls were along this narrow street...

inside the covered market....

some local rice munchies for watching TV..

the black packets contained squid ink crispy noodles...

pakdokter bought some of these salty-sweet dried scallops...

should be great in the 'nasi goreng'...

succulent and sweet rock melon....

salmon....

calamari....

hairy crabs....

more crabs....

sea urchins..

we had it for dinner at the 'izakaya'....

rice with salmon roe was in season...

scallops...

and a crab-meat 'pow'....

delicious....

milk ice-cram with caramel toffee...

squid ink ice-cream....

tasting the local ice-cream..hmmm yummy...

grilled sotong sliced into long threads..

the rock melon rocks....

a second helping...

at 200 yen per slice...