Ch’iao Rope Rescue Competition 2018 @ Kaohsiung

S was invited to join ARA (Aomori Research Activities) as team translator which he readily accepted. I was roped in as the competition will be held in Taiwan and none of them knew Chinese. Therefore I could assist in logistics and hotel etc...

A chance to be away from baby and to eat local food, oh ya! Taiwan here I come! Did months of research to ensure lodging, transportation, hotel, compeition locations to ensure no hiccups.

Took budget air line (Peach) from Sendai Airport and it was not easy to get there. Drove go Hachinohe to board bus (3-4 hours) to Sendai main area, board train (20 minutes) to airport. S was concerned about me during the long bus journey. Like he was expecting me to complain about the ride. Eh.... how many times I have to take hours of bus ride to Malaysia (custom jam, bus brokedown) stuck don’t know how long...To be frank, i was dozing off majority of the time, like usual lol.

Dinner @ BISTRO Ahiru(Duck) 食堂 (Oirase)

Only open for dinner, closed on Tue.

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Awarded (by me haha) best gastronomic discovery of 2018. Took me 5 years to discover a hidden gem! Everything we ate was good... so good! Its was a girl’s night out on a Monday night.  Many restaurants in Misawa was closed (thankfully! I would not have found here otherwise).

All the menu was written on the board, it was difficult to understand the handwriting and we squinting and frowning what it would be. No pictures for reference and we tried showing past dishes appeared in google but the staff said it was seasonal. So half we left it up to them. 

Delighted that the suspense was worth it. Must bring S here!! Must go for date night!

When the staff recommended this as salad, we assumed (since no picture to refer) that its with greenies. To our surprise, came peach with bayonne ham as salad?! Quite apprehensive yet it lingered in our mouth and complimented other dishes. Became my must order “salad”

Farm Cafe Orta @ Towada

Saw their cafe in the magazine and been wanting to go. this cafe has fheir own cafe so certain months they only opened during weekends. I usually go on weekdays to discover they were closed.

 We were early and was asked to wait since we did not make reservations. However while we were waiting for 10-15 minutes outside, we saw 2 pairs of customers went in and got seated (they did not looked like they had reservations). We decided to go in and sat in the last empty table (luckily we did that as next couple customers were waiting for a long while outside).

Lunch set only 2 choices available with different sauce of spaghetti. Nothing much to rave about.

  

Overall was not impressed by them, be it food or service.

Maybe dinner might be better since they are always featured in local magazines.

ビストロポンドリゼール (Pont de L‘isere @ Hachinohe

Located in Hachinohe. Splendid spread and serving with homemade dessert! Kid friendly (confirmed with the owner). Slightly on pricy side around 1500yen - 1600 yen for lunch set however its well worth the price. Might be too much for small eaters.

Need to wait slightly long for the food but time flies when there are a good conversation partner 

Open from:11.30 -2.00pm, 5.30- 10pm (9.30pm last order).

Closed on Wednesday.

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Daily lunch set

My fish lunch set