Okay we've had omu rice before, it's stir-fried rice wrapped inside an omelet, no biggie, good for some home cooked style when you need it... Kinda. What we found is it's another example of how different the Japan exported to the world is from the Japan in Japan. Standing outside Pomme-no-ki in the JR Tower above Sapporo station we're transfixed by the dozens of variations of omu rice. There's so many we still haven't decided as we drift along in the small queue and pop out at the head. Seated and faced with an expectant waitress we make our choices, Kat - Kim chi and
onsen egg with butter and bacon rice (you even have a choice on the type of fried rice....amazing), M1 - butter bacon rice with Japanese curry sauce, and I go for tomato rice gratinated in a cream sauce. You even get to choose SS - 2 eggs, S - 3 eggs, M - 4 eggs or the mammoth L - 6 eggs. We all settle for the M.
When the omelette's arrive I once again give props to the plastic food people whose models could have been sitting in front of us or maybe it should be to the kitchen for presenting exactly what they have promised not minus one detail.
My rice sitting in a small bowl is swimming in a lava hot cheese/cream sauce, once the molten bubbling has subsided it's actually really Moorish and a good breakfast in my book.
M1's is with the Japanese curry sauce. The rice and omelet are good but the Japanese curry is perhaps an acquired taste.
Kat's come out with the winner on the day, the plate is picture (in fact several) pretty, laced with
kewpie piled with kim chi and topped with the onsen egg. We marveled at the soft white and hard yolk (done by cooking at low temperature), the kim chee had just the right bite and went well with the bacon rice.
We seem to be a source of constant amusement to M1 as we walk through japan with our I guess, child like wonder and amazement at every thing, dragging him in to look and eat things that must seem so normal. But isn't that one of the joys of travel?
Pomme-no-ki
Top floor
JR Tower
Sapporo
