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I stayed at my parents' house in Sapporo for about a week, and it was quite busy with my husband joining in for a trip in between, and time flew by quickly. Tomorrow, I will be heading back home... On the day before that, my mother suddenly said, "Since it's the last day, I want to eat Japanese food somewhere," (come to think of it, she said the same thing last time in June), so I hurriedly searched for a Japanese restaurant with private rooms. Since there was no PC in Sapporo and no gourmet magazines, I had to rely on my memory and made a reservation at a hotel that seemed to have good reviews. The private room fee was 2310 yen, which I thought was expensive, but since I wanted to relax while eating, I had no choice. It was on the 22nd floor of Keio Plaza Hotel near Sapporo Station, and the view was good. When we entered, there were hardly any customers at the table seats, so I thought maybe we didn't need a private room after all... The Japanese-style room was quite spacious for two people, but it was not a sunken kotatsu style, so my legs were starting to feel numb... Since it was a hotel, the menu was detailed, and it was stated that separate orders for two people were okay. We ordered the "Taste of the North" for 10,000 yen and the "Miyama" for 8,000 yen (including tax and service charge). [Taste of the North]... A's Photo 1. Appetizer... Boat-shaped kombu assortment, simmered yuba, sea urchin with the scent of the sea, full of flavors from Hokkaido, and there was also luxurious sea urchin on top. 2. Soup... Botan oil child Yoshino pounding, wood buds It didn't have a smooth texture and the oiliness could have been a bit more... 3. Sashimi As expected, the sashimi was delicious and beautifully arranged. 4. Grilled dishes... Lily bulb tamashime, new kazunoko... It didn't seem like it was marinated in dashi soy sauce, but had its original texture and taste. I think I had it for the first time. - Grilled Hokkaido beef with salt... Mountain wasabi I have memories of going to the mountains to pick mountain wasabi when I was a child, and I think it was around the time of the spring thaw. Compared to regular wasabi, mountain wasabi is quite spicy, but when grated and put on rice, it has a delicious taste that you can eat as much as you want. It was nostalgic~ - Grilled king crab shell 5. Simmered dish... Steamed kinki fish Kinki was small, which was disappointing. 6. Side dish... Tofu skin tempura, delicious miso 7. Crab cooked rice in a soup bowl I love crab, but the taste was too refined, which was a bit disappointing. 8. Dessert [Miyama] 1. Appetizer... Tofu skin tempura, beef roll with eight flavors, soaked radish, dried kamasu fish Four dishes are served in a vessel that looks like something you would see at a ryokan, but the dishes themselves were quite ordinary. 2. Soup... Crab shinjo It was fluffy, but didn't have much crab flavor. 3. Sashimi 4. Grilled dish... Grilled eggplant with shijimi clams, shrimp, lotus root, shiitake mushrooms, grilled sauce The grilled sauce was like a sweet and savory miso sauce. 5. Main dish... Grilled conger eel, lily bulb, yuba wrap, mushroom sauce Is this the main dish...? It felt like a home-cooked meal. 6. Side dish... Flounder, scallop, Mizuna salad Was this just placed on top...? 7. Meal... Manpuku-ji jyako rice, soup bowl, pickles 8. Dessert... Warabi mochi, fruits The prices include tax and service charge, so I think the content was average, but other than the sashimi, there was nothing particularly delicious, and it was just a regular hotel Japanese meal.