My favorite food dish in Japan is sashimi. Although this technically isn't a dish as just about any animal can be made into sashimi, I love almost all of it. For those who don't know, Japan is known for sushi, which many Americans automatically think means raw fish. This is not true. Sushi means raw food on rice. Sashimi means raw food, no rice. Those aren't the literal translations, just what you should expect if you were to order one or the other.
Here is a semi-up-to-date list of animals I've eaten in Japan:
*Chicken
*Cow
Pig
*Shrimp
Duck
*Salmon/Tuna/any other fish that lives in the ocean
Oyster
Clam
*Squid
*Octopus
*Horse
Whale (for research purposes only ;-) )
and many other strange foods that didn't have English translations
(all of the *s are for foods I've eaten sashimi'd)
The only ones I didn't like were the horse and the octopus. The two thins I have been told I have to try before I go home: pufferfish and dog. The second will be hard to find in Japan, but I'm sure I'll find it somewhere.
Here is a semi-up-to-date list of animals I've eaten in Japan:
*Chicken
*Cow
Pig
*Shrimp
Duck
*Salmon/Tuna/any other fish that lives in the ocean
Oyster
Clam
*Squid
*Octopus
*Horse
Whale (for research purposes only ;-) )
and many other strange foods that didn't have English translations
(all of the *s are for foods I've eaten sashimi'd)
The only ones I didn't like were the horse and the octopus. The two thins I have been told I have to try before I go home: pufferfish and dog. The second will be hard to find in Japan, but I'm sure I'll find it somewhere.
posted by Bruhaha at 2:03 AM
2 Comments:
Did you read on the Nomadlife frontpage about that blogger that died from ill prepared pufferfish? What an odd way to go.
so you've eaten raw chicken and horse? hmmm
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