{"id":75624,"date":"2017-01-26T08:36:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T23:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=75624"},"modified":"2017-01-26T08:36:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T23:36:38","slug":"sapporo-eating-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=75624","title":{"rendered":"SAPPORO EATING SPREE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8912.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8912\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75632\" \/><\/p>\n<p>flying into saporro was much more easy than riding the train.  compare a 1.5 hour flight to a 16  hour train ride?  i can&#8217;t believe i did that last year.  probably never again.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8924.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8924\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75625\" \/><\/p>\n<p>happy to hook up with Kimura-san.  it&#8217;s his first time seeing snow like this.  he was so happy looking around and seeing snow everywhere.  like a little kid.  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9055.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9055\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75633\" \/><\/p>\n<p>we asked the girl at our hotel for the best local izakaya and went straight here.  omg, it was amazing!  started off with sashimi.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9054.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9054\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75627\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this is called sharako.  i love this!!!  the juicy flavors explode in your mouth.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9056.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9056\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75637\" \/><\/p>\n<p>seen this hairy crab swimming in the tank.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9057.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9057\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ten minutes later, he was on our table.  omg, crab sashimi!  it was the sweetest ever!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9063.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9063\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75629\" \/><\/p>\n<p>always a great conversation over some beers.  it will be Kimura-san&#8217;s first time snowboarding so he&#8217;s getting nervous.  i&#8217;m actually a little nervous for him because i got super frustrated snowboarding for the first time.  why?  because i didn&#8217;t listen.   and being that Kimura-san doesn&#8217;t listen at all, he&#8217;s going to have a hard time.  so my advice to him was &#8220;LISTEN!!!&#8221;  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9058.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9058\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75634\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ended off our wonderful dinner with fresh hokkaido raw oysters.  so sweet!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8921.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8921\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75626\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then took a walk on the snowy streets.  saporro is such an interesting city.  good food, nice people, and just so alive.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9064.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9064\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75635\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then we heard about this goat meat bbq restaurant and had to try it out.  i ate here 5 years ago and it was amazing.  and it still is!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9065.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9065\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75630\" \/><\/p>\n<p>cheers to our second dinner in one night!  i can&#8217;t believe we at as much as we did.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9146.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9146\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75636\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then the walk back to our hotel was fun too. then came across this frozen lake.  wow!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9152-e1485379411164.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9152\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75631\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then in our hotel room for our last whisky drink.  it was Jack Sinatra and it went down so good!  anyway, heading to the mountains this morning.  going to see snow everywhere and should be surfing the hills later today.  i can&#8217;t wait!  i just hope Kimura-san LISTENS!!!  haha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>flying into saporro was much more easy than riding the train. compare a 1.5 hour flight to a 16 hour train ride? i can&#8217;t believe i did that last year. probably never again. happy to hook up with Kimura-san. it&#8217;s his first time seeing snow like this. he was so happy looking around and seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}