Echigo-Tsumari

The restaurant at the Snow centre draws some of its ingredients from a vegetable patch just by the building, the chef is assisted by local old ladies who have been teaching her local country receipts. I know it sounds a bit to good to be true but it really does seem to work, the food is amazing and the enthusiasm of the old ladies and the chef unthinkable in the UK. I showed some mushroom porn I had on my computer (pictures of mushrooms from the lake district) and they were near ecstatic, my best trout photos nearly blew the place apart.