Love the theme of this kiddie party!! Pinoy!!! This is my first time to witness a Pinoy kiddie party and I love it!!
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As if Aprés ski at Steve and Lindy wasn’t enough!! We just wanted to try this place before we leave! You won’t miss it because it is in the corner of the intersection of the two main streets in Niseko Hirafu Village
Bakery as you enter
Go inside for seating
Very cozy seating – this is it
The gang that wanted to have cheese fondue and raclette!
Read the sign carefully on FREE WIFI 🙂
They only had fondue at night for dinner so we really had to squeeze this in since all dinners were booked already! It’s unlimited for 4,000 yen per person. If you are 2 or more, best to get both so you can have both and share
It comes with lots of salad!
Cheese fondue and raclette! The server was shocked every time we would ask – tip she realised later and gave us a plate with much more cheese than she was giving initially! 🙂
Dessert comes with the dinner! 
Pay a little more if you want more toppings
APPLE – A HOKKAIDO SPECIALITY
Stewed apples cooked with brown sugar, rum and butter. Served with cream or ice cream
LEMON JUICE – ANOTHER TNSC FAVORITE
Simply Delicious
NUTELLA – A SLIGHTLY NAUGHTY DESSERT CRÊPE
A plain Crêpe with the original Alba ( famous for white truffles & nutella) recipe
Jackie and Marco visiting us from the window! 🙂
Click below to go to their website
The Niseko Supply Company structure has been painstakenly restored in 2012 after decades of Niseko blizzard & snowfall damage.
Love chilling and thawing in the condo of Steve and Lindy in Vale 
Thank you Steve and Lindy @lindycas for hosting the best Aprés Ski in Niseko! We love you!!! So sad it was our last night in Niseko
We had sake, sashimi, sushi and sukiyaki! 
The sushi chef made it right there and then in the kitchen of the condo
We were so happy to meet Justin Owers @justinowers and his girlfriend Chloe. His students – Carmina @thecrazycook_ph Jackie @jaxcantonio Anna @aangara and Tin @tincmoreno were telling us about how good Justin was as their ski instructor so we were all happy to meet the face behind the name
If you are in Niseko and need a patient and kind instructor look for Justin. Book him thru Niseko Black +81 (0) 136-55-5852 (office #) You can book Justin (and other instructors!) by emailing too! Just send a message to snowsports@nisekoblack.com 
When you are in a big group, going to an onsen is the only thing you won’t want to do together!!!! haha!!!! Cherina would announce to the group where and what time she is going to reserve her slot to make sure no one will go there during her time slot! haha!! But onsen is the best thing to do after skiing to relax all the muscles you used!! It can relieve any aches and pains in the body!
I did not ski but I went to an onsen twice in 6 days just to relax and maybe heal my spine problems and it instantly did! Maybe not long term but short term it did! I went to the onsen in Vale ( for guests only while some guests have their own private in their rooms ) which is a small and cozy one with indoor and outdoor. There were not many people so it was good for me! I wish I had exerted more effort to research and go out of my way and really make time for it! Too little time always :-O I am sorry I don’t have a comprehensive feature on this but ONSEN IS A MUST in Niseko! Make sure to find one and go to one! Onsens range from Included in your hotel room to 500 yen to up to 30,000 yen! So it depends on your needs and wants and budget! :-O
Here are photos of onsens in Niseko which we did not go to!! :-O
There are unisex onsens – I don’t recommend this!! haha!!
Private is always the best so you can do it at any time at your convenience and secretly 🙂 I wonder which hotel has the best private onsen
Hilton Niseko Village Onsen – WOW!!
Jose told me that Shiatsu massage in Niseko is good!! But we were not able to go!! When we had a bit of time to do so, we walked in to this place beside Vale and they were fully booked!!
Click below to go to a directory of Onsens -I am sure there is more than this but it could be a start for getting info
Relax, feel the smooth water, and lose yourself in the quiet sound of the water pouring in from deep in the ground.
After dinner, we went to Lucky Fingers in Annupuri
Tina’s friend owns the place
So nice to meet friends of Tina @tinatimeofficial Matt Naiman and his wife Yuriko. They own Annapuri Lodge and LuckyFingers Bar and Restaurant which opened 2 years ago in Niseko. Matt is an American and came to Tokyo as a furniture designer. He is into the Nightclub business and has two – 10 yr old Ruby room in Shubuya, Tokyo and in 13 yr old Club Pure in Osaka. Yuriko on the other hand is a Food editor, a Sake Somelier and does high end, in house private dining. More power!!! 
Joint celebration at LuckyFingers. Thank you Tina @tinatimeofficial for organizing Happy Birthday to the January and February celebrants – Jackie (Jan 25 ) @jaxcantonio Kim ( Jan 30 ) @kimm_stagram Raffy ( Feb 3) @dondurian Pat ( Feb 4) @spatysy and Tin ( Feb 9) @tincmoreno
The non drinkers had these 🙂 I am included there 🙂
Our favorite bar chow at LuckyFingers – Fried Asparagus coated with crackers. Don’t ask what else we did with it 🙂
Cheese sticks – YUM!
All you can drink and eat for 2 hours! Anna was making it sulit! haha!!
After this night, some of the group left so this was officially our last night all together. How sad!
Special birthday cake 
It was so big we could not finish it but some of us ate more strawberries and cream from the cake! YUM!!
Bumping into Yuriko in the streets 🙂
Again just a hop and skip away from Shiki in the same street as Ezo is Niseko Ramen 🙂
No reservations
They have another restaurant in case you do not want to wait!
We just got whatever tables were available so we were not all together
Spicy miso ramen
Their gyoza is different – it is fried 🙂
I love the cheese rings!!!! YUM YUM!!!
Onion rings looked good – the table beside us ordered it 🙂
Niseko Ramen!!! YUM!!!! This is now my number 1 favourite ramen. Some liked it and some did not so it is a matter of taste. This is a bit creamy which is why maybe I like it
I wish I had ordered it with Hokkaido butter and corn!!! NEXT TIME!!
Milk Kobo is our favourite Dairy 🙂 We went to the dairy itself! 
Of course they have the complete line of everything they produce
Ice cream in many flavours!
The yogurt drink! Yum Yum!
They have nice gift packs in different combinations! Leave it to the Japanese to package them so beautifully
Cheese Tart is cheaper here by 50 yen! 🙂 
Carmina bought some of this pudding and it was so good!!
Cream puff seems to be one of their bestsellers too
Cream puffs Baking in the oven
Kai tried one and she said the inside cream was super good but the outer pastry was not that great. I am guessing it was not a fresh piece. Always make sure you eat them always freshly baked
We signed up for ice cream making lessons. It was 1,300 yen per person. 
No one there could speak English so they showed us this! haha!! 🙂 I have a feeling that in the summer they may have a tour of the dairy but since it was Winter, we were not able to tour the farm, the cows etc 
Bonding while making ice cream 🙂 Just mix and mix and you have to help each other because one has to hold the bowl and one has to mix – it’s teamwork! 🙂
And we all got a cup of the ice cream we made! Strawberry ice cream! 
Next time maybe you can just buy the ice cream made! haha!!! The ice cream making was just mixing 🙂 So with 1,300 yen maybe better to use it to buy and try the products being sold there
With the 1,300 yen came the ice cream we made and another choice of ice cream – whether soft serve or in a cup or cone
YUM YUM YUM!! Milk Kobo soft serve
The hoarder! 🙂
Click below to go to their website ( the website is in Japanese too :-O)
One morning we explored two other hotels/serviced residences in the area. Just like Vale and Shiki, the units are time shared.
The first one is Niseko Landmark which was recommended by our friends Barbee. It is a very short walk from Shiki so we just turned left from the main street and walked all the way till we saw it
Beautiful too 🙂 It has a nice view of the mountain and surrounded by trees. It is a bit further away from the main village restaurants and stores but Hirafu is so small that everything is so near each other anyway
We were not able to see any room because it was fully booked. This was the lobby
Click below to go to their website
Niseko Landmark View features contemporary, luxury condominiums and a full service reception desk to make your stay in Niseko perfect.
Walk up some more and you are in the slopes and by the gondola
Nearby is a one year old hotel called Ki
We were not able to see the rooms since it was fully booked as well. Love the artwork in the lobby
Click below to go to their website
Ki Niseko is a boutique ski-in ski-out hotel that combines modern alpine charm with Japanese sophistication.
Our last complete dinner together before some of us left 🙁 A Michelin star dinner at Kamimura which is conveniently located in our hotel, Shiki
Previous entry: Shiki Niseko Serviced Residences Feb. 15, 2016 
Our last complete photo which is not even complete since Marco is taking the photo! 
Enjoyed our dinner! 
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