Our trip to Hakodate was busy and successful as far as making provisions to increase renters in our properties. As usually, the seafood was delicious, but this time we tried out a famous hamburger--I'll call it the chubby burger! One could debate the effectiveness of this marketing strategy, but it pulled us in! For our Japanese speakers, it is really a "futocho" burger. It has two burgers with a potato Koroke (like a breaded and fried mashed potato patty--one of my many favorite Japanese foods!) as well as an egg, tomato, lettuce, and most of the normal ingredients. It is held in one piece by a skewer. They only serve 20 of them a day, so we weren't sure if there would be any left when we went about 6:30 in the evening. We were glad they hadn't all been ordered, so we could give it a try. When they brought it out, they rang a bell and gave us a certificate explaining how this "chubby"burger would give our spirit and our stomach much happiness! We shared it and were both stuffed! It was quite good. We also had a sesame seed milk shake--equally as delicious and a delicious deep fried sweet bean and sesame dongo.
