October 8, 2016 ~ Day 7 in Hokkaido, Japan.

A week has passed by just like that!  Today’s itinerary was nothing more than a stop to the Mitsui Outlet Park Sapporo Kitahiroshima and flying back to Hong Kong.

We started with a later morning than usual with checkout time at 9 a.m.  Since we were staying at Mercure Sapporo again, the continental breakfast selection was more than familiar.  Last Japanese breakfast items for a while!

We arrived at the Mitsui Outlet Mall right at 10 a.m. when it opened and I was surprised to see a long line-up of people there.  Good thing we had been stuck in traffic for a bit and didn’t have to wait once we got there.

Once inside the Mitsui Outlet Mall, occupying 2 levels and a basement, it was just like any other outlet mall out there with tons of western brand names.  I’m not a shopper.  My whole life, I’ve desired just to have a personal shopper who could advise and shop for me so I don’t have to do it.  XD  I’m not interested in shopping for clothes and 90% of the time, it really bores me.

Anyway, we were given 2 hours there and for the first hour, we strolled through casually for a walk to see what was around.

Then I visited the glorious food court (only best part of the mall in my eyes) and I tried the donuts and ice cream from Lil’ Donuts and shared a bowl of ramen from Ramen Teshikaga.  The coupon book gave us a platter of free gyoza with it too!  There were so many people here eating that I wouldn’t be surprised if some people came here primarily for the food at the food court.

The small donut was so soft and freshly fried.  You could see the process from their glass windows.  The cute little donut went so well with the soft serve milk ice cream ^_^.  It was a perfect amount to get to try their ice cream and their feature donuts.

The Gyokaishiburi Shoyu Ramen was “ramen with a special soy sauce based soup”.  It came with a platter of 5 gyozas.  I loved the texture of the ramen  and the perfectly boiled egg.  Delicious!  The broth wasn’t too strong either.

The gyoza was perfect and the best I’ve had on this trip!  I was so grateful to have squeezed this quick meal into the “shopping” trip.  In fact,  if it weren’t for the tour, I wouldn’t have minded an extra couple of hours to just eat the rest of the restaurants at the food court.  It all looked so good!

 

We hopped back on the bus at 12 p.m. and headed to lunch at the Ana Crowne Plaza on the 11th floor.

There wasn’t a lot included at lunch, but the sushi was good, the udon was really good.  We also pre-ordered uni, toro, sea urchin, as well as a special type of fish.

The sea urchin was good and even more fresh than the first day when I had had it, I wanted the bigger pieces.  By appearance, this portion looked exactly the same as the one bought at the supermarket.

The fish was really good and tender too!

After lunch, we went to the airport to check in.

It was a very short rest of the day and thus, this trip to Hokkaido has ended.

Our tour guide highly recommended that we buy that LeTAO Japanese cheesecake which was available at the airport before we left.  It was a double cheese cheesecake!  I got to enjoy it when we arrived back in Hong Kong the next day.  We bought it and it was conveniently packed with dry ice for us.  There were three flavours!

I already miss the food and feel that I still haven’t had that much food this trip.  Ah well, next trip.  Hope I can return to Japan sometime again to enjoy all the food. 🙂

View the blog posts for Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, and Day 6 of my Hokkaido 2016 trip!

//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({
google_ad_client: “ca-pub-2954123352172647”,
enable_page_level_ads: true
});