26 Mar 2023
A Hokkaido native, Shiori was a fantastic host and absolutely amazing chef. She's a trained professional chef who used to own her own restaurant and is now a housewife, so there is so much flavor in every dish. After picking my husband and I up from a train station just a few minutes from Sapporo Station, she walked us through how to make sushi with a whole bunch of different ingredients in her home. It's also worth mentioning that she was very accommodating to our dietary needs (we don't eat fish). She also had several other delicious dishes prepared when we arrived to add to dinner. We really appreciated her time to walk us through each dish and even teach us about some regional specialties. We got to taste cherry blossom tea and her homemade lemon sorbet as well. It was our honeymoon so Shiori even went out of her way to get us a bottle of champagne to enjoy with dinner. This was the highlight of our 2 week trip in Japan and I can't recommend Shiori enough!