Eating out on the mountain is a little pricier. The alternative option is to get food from the convenience store to consume back at the hotel. For those who stayed in apartments with kitchen facilities, cooking is the best option.
Lunch at A-bu-cha 2. One of the few lunches we had, during the stay.
chicken something…
pork something…
Cream melon soda. Melon soda tasted a little like fanta, except it’s green instead of orange.
hotto mocha
heading down to the buffet area, snowboard/ski storage room and steps to the slopes
The steps leading from the hotel to the chairlifts. Figured that the reason the flooring has got holes in them is for the snow to be able to fall through to the ground below.
apartments opposite the hotel
arriving at the skiing/snowboarding area
One of the daily highlights for me during the stay is the buffet breakfast and buffet dinner included with the stay at the hotel. It’s not so much the eating but more looking at what’s available. Just like reading what’s in a menu even though i may not want to eat most of the things in it. Breakfast is served from 7 to 9 a.m. and dinner from 5.30 to 9 p.m. I made sure i drag myself out of bed for breakfast even if it’s on my own.
Most of the food are the same every morning and evening, with a few changes daily. They try to cater to western, chinese and japanese taste buds.
Dinner was, from different nights…
Sweet-tasting omelette
Edamame
There was pasta everynight, with a different flavour. Probably shouldn’t be having pasta since this is Japan but just could not resist. Especially with the ‘free-flow’ cheese powder next to it.
tempura corner daily, but not a big fan.
one of the trays
chawan mushi
daily vegetable intake
some Japanese braised dish. rather sweet tasting.
On some nights, there were deep-fried crab shell.
and crab claws on other nights. A fan of neither.
miso soup. The Japanese don’t drink their soup with a spoon. They stir it with a chopstick and consume straight from the bowl.
This was labelled German potatoes, which is similar to the Scalloped potatoes in Melbourne. It’s potatoes baked with cream, cheese, some mushrooms. Feels a little sick if consumed to much. Maybe due to the cream and cheesy-ness.
rice was available daily, with a variety of toppings such as seaweed and Japanese pickles to go with it.
the Japanese not only have the usual plain rice but they also tend to cook their rice with other ingredients like barley or crab or meat etc.
steak was also available daily to cater to the meat-eaters. It’s chicken and beef/lamb nightly.
Where we sat on the first night. The steak corner on the left. It was not a good idea to be seated too close, with the smoke and grease.
dessert corner, of which i only tried a few things. They looked pretty but a little too sweet.
Robes are provided for the hotel guests in their rooms. The inner layer is called yukata. Not sure what they outer layer is called. Most of the guests don the robes around the hotel.
Last rounds of a mixture of whatever i feel like having. Walnut bread & butter, gohan (rice in Japanese) and some chocolate mudcake-like dessert.
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