Shimizu Fish market - 海山

For breakfast the next morning, we went to the Shimizu fish market - 海山.

Website: http://www.shimizu-maguro.com/menulist.html

As daddy doesn't like sashimi, we walked around the market, checking out the menu to see if there are things that dad would like. Well, there are many shops that serves cooked food, but we ended up at 海山 because of their fancy looking anago tempura don.

Mum and I had the sashimi don which was delicious~

We also ordered some cooked dishes to be shared. 

This here is the fried kuro iwashi hanpen which is another specialty of Shizuoka. I don't really like this, the flavour of iwashi if pretty strong.

The friend squid was super delicious, we ordered a second one. 

The kimmedai was also good, but I feel like the taste is on the light side.

Gotta have another sakura ebi because it's a popular dish from Shizuoka.

Get there early before the shop opens and you can get a nice seat by the window, overlooking the dock.

Look at the size of the bowl for the sashimi don!

  

While the weather was super dark and gloomy, we were lucky that it didn't rain when we were at the market..

As we drove towards the Gotemba premium outlets, it rained heavily. Even so, there were many cars heading towards the premium outlets and all the nearby car parks were full. Hence, we had to park pretty far away and walk in the rain towards the outlet.

Website: https://www.premiumoutlets.co.jp/gotemba/

We had tea there with some chiffon cakes before continuing our journey towards Sagamiko.

Suruga Onsen

Once again, I'm back at Suruga Kenkoland.

Website: https://www.kur-hotel.co.jp/suruga/access

I've been in love with their onsen ever since the last time I visited with Kiu. 

As it was the New Year's holiday this time, it was more packed that the last time I visited. We had to wait about 30 mins before we could get a seat for dinner. But that gave me a chance to snack on some ice cream! :)

Ordered a few dishes to share. We had the butadon which was super yummy. 

Some assorted yakitori which I thought were not that good.

Sakura ebi tempura was super delicious. So good, that we ordered another one.

Then a huge platter of yakisoba. Soooo good~

And this cold garlic nasu appetiser dish which was the super delicious!

I really enjoy the onsen here, but this is not the place for you if you have tattoos as they are very strict here. While there are more and more places that allow people with tattoos, it is still not that common yet.

S-Pulse Dream Plaza

S-Pulse Dream Plaza~

I last visited here about 10 year ago with Dad and later with Naoko & Kiu.

Somehow it seems like, this is one of the must go to places when visiting Shizuoka.

This time we were stopping by to just look-see, before checking into our hotel.

We passed by this booth selling canelé. It has a best selling, no.1 sign all over the booth!

So we bought some to try too.....but unfortuntely, none of it tastes good. Lol, not sure if this is how it was supposed to taste but it was just horrible. I can't believe that it was a top selling food!

 I prefer the ones made by the Italian restaurant that I frequent.

In this area, there are many seafood restaurants. Other than the sushi buffet that I had with Dad, I have never dined here before.

Maybe next time, I shall try a sashimi don from one of the restaurants here as they looked good!

Lol, a 2019 version. Every time I visit, I snap a picture of this.

And once again, I'm back at the ramune meseum.

They seem to change up a little something each time.

Then back on the road we go, towards our hotel. This time, we got a nice view of Mount Fuji. :D

Road trip to Shizuoka

The day, we went on  a road trip to Shizuoka.

But first we need to fill our tummy with some yummy bread for breakfast first.

Along the way, we stopped by Expasa for lunch at a gyudon place.

Website: https://sapa.c-nexco.co.jp/sapa?sapainfoid=4

The rest area was super busy and all the restaurants were packed. So we walked into one where it was easier to get seats.

The food was not too bad considering the condition and area.

While the presentation wasn't that great, the taste was good.

After a heavy lunch, we decided to try out luck at catching Mount Fuji.

On the second floor, is this area where there's ashiyu. A place for you to soak your feet while you eat and rest.

From there, you can walk out to the open balcony where you're supposed to be able to get an amazing view of Mount Fuji. But it seems that we were unlucky that day as there was this big cloud blocking Mount Fuji through out our drive there.

Oh well, but we still decided to snap a picture there.

Before continuing on with our trip, bought the seasonal Starbucks goma  ice blend for daddy to try.

Our rental car surprisingly has my birth date on it!

Later on in the day, we finally got a glimpse of Mount Fuji as we got nearer to Shimizu.

Once near Shimizu, you get a nice view of the sea~ :D

Bruna Okonomiyaki dinner

After the bus tour, we stopped by Bruna for some okonomiyaki.

Website: http://www.okonomiyaki-bruna.com/

Really like this place. One of the best places for monjayaki and okonomiyaki in my opinions.

You cook some yourself on the hot plate while they will cook some for you and bring it to your table.

The yakisoba here is definitely the best I've ever had in Japan~! They also have good side dishes like kimchi and miso cucumber.

Bus Tour 5

The next stop was 三町筋 (Sanmachi Suji) which is an edo which has kept the edo-period style street and architecture.

We walked to this shop called Le Midi, which is famous for their pudding!

Website: http://www.le-midi.jp/

We were provided with a walking map by the travel agency and I googled some of the spots on it before deciding that we should try this.

This place was highly recommended by reviewers.

The pudding were delicious. You top the caramel sauce yourself as it is provided right near the bench where you can sit and eat. I like how I get to control the amount of sauce that I want.

This pudding shop was next to the original restaurant which seemed to have high reviews on trip advisor.

We also walked into this small little shop that sells Japanese confectionery. We bought some to try and they were delicious. 

On the first day of the tour, the guide handed us a form that provided us with the opportunity ti order certain souvenirs through them. On the form was this some steamed beef buns and these croissants below too. 

I decided to order the bread to try and we got them today.

There were 2 different croissants, which were given to us warm. And they were surprisingly good! There a few others on the same bus who had ordered this too, which others had the steamed buns. 

I thought that it was interesting that the bus tour had this kind of services which enabled us to try something from a local store there.