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| Sushi Tokyo Ten (Tokyo) - Japan 2017 |
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| Salmon Roe (Tokyo) - Japan 2017 |
Was this our first sushi meal in Japan? Maybe. Anyway, we wanted a sushi meal!
Yuma, our guide on our walking tour, was able to get us a reservation at this very nice, centrally-located restaurant. It took us a while to find the place, but eventually there it was, in a new shopping center located at the south end of Shinjuku Station.
The meal itself involved quite a few items. Quite a few. Mike was basically really full about two-thirds of the way through. OK, here's the list:
Clam soup / seaweed / horse mackerel / spanish mackerel /
squid / flounder / shisamo / cod roe / horse mackerel from Kyoto Maizu / shrimp
/ abalone / salmon roe / shirako / shitake soup / tuna / anglerfish liver /
toro / pickled radish / two kinds uni / tuna roll / miso soup / sea eel /
omelet / sea cucumber / grapes (dessert)
Most interesting item: shirako. "Shirako is the milt, or sperm sacs, of male cod." Hali liked it, Mike was non-committal.
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| Shirako (Tokyo) - Japan 2017 |
1 comment:
People used to ask me what the Japanese diet was like.
I told them they liked pickled stuff. And aesthetically pleasing concoctions.
I said, "if it grows in the sea, they will consume it."
We used to drive along highways in the North, and you'd see strips of seaweed on the pavement drying. Weird place to process food.
We went to a huge seafood market in Aomori once, rows and rows of every kind of thing. We had fun trying to figure out what some of the things actually were.
Japanese groceries were a blast. I especially liked the dried seahorses sold in translucent plastic bags, alongside the potato chips.
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