Hokkaido Winter Market & Street Food Experience ★ ONLY in JAPAN
Hokkaido in the winter is cold and if you go to the very north coast along the Sea of Okhotsk, you’ll find Abashiri (網走市) 260km / 165mi north of Sapporo.
In February, it’s the high season for tourists because this is where you go to see a lot of snow. ice drifts and eat a lot of amazing seafood.
During the city’s annual Drift Ice Festival, you’ll also find the amazing Okhotsk Yatai Mura Food Market (オホーツク屋台村) where local resident come out to celebrate the cold long nights together with good food from the Sea of Okhotsk and copious amounts of beer and atsukan (hot Japanese sake). This is an excellent experience of a lively night market in Hokkaido and worth a stop and bite.
What do we eat at the market in this episode?
★ Snow Crab
☆ Ramen
★ Fried Shrimp
★ Grilled Oysters
★ Hokke Mackerel
★ Monster Scallops
☆ Udon
☆ Steamed Potatoes
☆ Yakisoba
☆ Okonomiyaki
It’s hard not to get a little tipsy here, but one thing is for sure, you’ll make a ton of friends and eat a lot of food.
There are also other things to do in Abashiri like visit the famous Prison which I covered in a previous episode.
WHAT’S JAPANESE PRISON FOOD LIKE? (Abashiri Prison Restaurant)
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The Ice Drift Tour:
List of events in Abashiri:
Where is Abashiri, Hokkaido?
THANK YOU to the wonderful people of Abashiri for offering me such great hospitality, being brave to talk to a stranger and helping me get around the city. I hope to be back again soon.
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John, what a great "Slice of Life™" video. You really capture not just the food, but people and culture that it represents. I haven't made it to Hokkaido (yet), but I love cold weather and this makes me want to go even more! Thanks for another amazing production. When a shrimp is fried, I have never had an issue eating the whole thing. P.S. I'm also loving the more consistent release schedule.
Naol
Did you make the plane ?
Nice video
I always love street food
That's nice ,,,wow ,,,, greetings from the big 🍎☕🚬👍
This episode is so special you got to interact when common Japanese folks, we don't see that often
Amazake legit sounds like Horchata <3
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I want to retire and get old in this village.
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As a Canadian seeing how "cold" it gets…I would gladly live here with -10C compared to my -40C! Such a beautiful view and food. I do wish that here in Ontario they had more outdoor markets in the winter!!! So wonderful to see Hokkaido thriving!
Saw you on You wa nanisini Nippon he (^.^)
今テレビで見たけどあれは昨年のですか？
I eat the whole shrimp w/ shell if it's seasoned. The shell texture is weird to me but the shell does a good job capturing the seasoning so I dont mind.
Looks like a big Tailgating party ! That's how it is in Norman, Oklahoma during college football.
i never considered going to japan. but since i started watching your videos, i really wanna go there 😀
John fall off the side of a beautiful mountain in Japan and breaks every bone in his body:
John (big smile): 9 out of 10!
I'm from Chicago. I started eating shrimp with the shell on out of laziness of wanting to peel it, but soon learned exactly what your VLOG mentioned….the shell is where the strong flavor is. Now I eat it with shell for the flavor! Love your VLOGs!!
It's like soft shell crab those shrimp then? To my knowledge, we don't eat the shell because it's too hard and is dangerous to swallow since it can be sharp. They're kept for stocks ofc but that's the only thing we use the shells for.
Does snowfall lasts till end of March?
funny im from italy and i ate always the shell of shrimps hhahaha 😀 it tastes so much better with 🙂
Thank you for one more great video with this high quality. Love from Brazil.
Can we get more of drunk John?
Attn John Daub
With all these wonderful foods of Japan, Do you know what foods you (can/can't) eat some people have a (food intolerance/allergy) so they have to be very careful.