{"id":179,"date":"2013-02-25T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T05:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2013-02-25T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T05:37:15","slug":"tsukitoku-hanten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Tsukitoku Hanten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, everyone! Today the Geopark is seeing more snow. It looks like we&#8217;ll be getting a fair bit more of the stuff before we see spring!<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I went with some friends to Tsukitoku Hanten, a Chinese restaurant near Itoigawa Station. To be fair, our original reason for going was this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/?attachment_id=180\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-180\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"180\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/?attachment_id=180\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.34.37.jpg?fit=3264%2C2448&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Vignette for Android&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1361475277&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Gyoza by the Faceful!\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Gyoza, also known as pot stickers, are a form of Chinese fried pork dumpling popular throughout Japan.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.34.37.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.34.37.jpg?fit=695%2C521&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-180\" alt=\"Huuuuge platter of gyoza\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.34.37-1024x768.jpg?resize=695%2C521\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.34.37.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.34.37.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.34.37.jpg?w=1390&amp;ssl=1 1390w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.34.37.jpg?w=2085&amp;ssl=1 2085w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a>Look at all that gyoza! It was on sale for only 100 yen per serving. We orderd 4 servings for a whopping total of 20 gyoza!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/?attachment_id=181\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-181\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"181\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/?attachment_id=181\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.38.11.jpg?fit=3264%2C2448&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Vignette for Android&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1361475491&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Gyoza in Yo&amp;#8217; Face!\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Closeup of delicious gyoza from Tsukitoku Hanten.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.38.11.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.38.11.jpg?fit=695%2C521&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-181\" alt=\"Gyoza in Yo' Face!\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.38.11-1024x768.jpg?resize=695%2C521\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.38.11.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.38.11.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.38.11.jpg?w=1390&amp;ssl=1 1390w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.38.11.jpg?w=2085&amp;ssl=1 2085w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a>Gyoza, known in many English-speaking countries as &#8216;pot stickers,&#8217; are a variety of fried pork and vegetable dumpling that originated in China. They are popular throughout Japan and Tsukitoku Hanten serves up some of the best.<\/p>\n<p>The gyoza were delicious, but I wouldn&#8217;t be wasting your time just telling you about the giant plate of gyoza we devoured. No, what I really want to share with you is a special dish only available until the end of February&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/?attachment_id=182\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-182\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"182\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/?attachment_id=182\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.48.56.jpg?fit=3264%2C2448&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Vignette for Android&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1361476136&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Monkfish Chow Mein\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Chow Mein, better known as &amp;#8216;yakisoba&amp;#8217; in Japan, is a dish of stir-fried noodles. This chow mein uses monkfish, Itoigawa&amp;#8217;s winter delicacy.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.48.56.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.48.56.jpg?fit=695%2C521&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-182\" alt=\"Monkfish Chow Mein\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.48.56-1024x768.jpg?resize=695%2C521\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.48.56.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.48.56.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.48.56.jpg?w=1390&amp;ssl=1 1390w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-02-21-19.48.56.jpg?w=2085&amp;ssl=1 2085w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a>&#8230;Monkfish Chow Mein!<\/p>\n<p>Until February 28th, you can enjoy monkfish chow mein! The monkfish is lightly battered and fried before being tossed with crispy noodles and vegetables in a savory soy-based sauce. It was an excellent meal and I will definitely be trying it again next season! It&#8217;s a great way to taste Itoigawa&#8217;s winter specialty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Ishikoro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tsukitoku Hanten\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tsukitoku-hanten.com\/tsukitoku.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tsukitoku Hanten<\/a>\u00a0(Japanese)<br \/>\n2-5-18 Omachi<br \/>\nItoigawa-shi, Niigata-ken Japan 941-0061<br \/>\nLunch: \u00a011:00am &#8211; 2:30pm<br \/>\nDinner: \u00a04:30pm &#8211; 9:00pm<\/p>\n<div class='wp_social_bookmarking_light'>        <div class=\"wsbl_facebook_like\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/?p=179\" layout=\"button_count\" action=\"like\" width=\"100\" share=\"false\" show_faces=\"false\" ><\/fb:like><\/div>        <div class=\"wsbl_twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/?p=179\" data-text=\"Tsukitoku Hanten\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, everyone! Today the Geopark is seeing more snow. It looks like we&#8217;ll be getting a fair bit more of the stuff before we see spring! Last week, I went with some friends to Tsukitoku Hanten, a Chinese restaurant near Itoigawa Station. To be fair, our original reason for going was this: Look at <a href='https:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/?p=179' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-info","category-10-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hiNW-2T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog-en.geo-itoigawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}