Most Unique Japanese Food

Are familiar with Japanese food? Japanese food is identical with raw food. Here is a Japanese food is not common in your ear.

1. Shirako

When viewed from a glance looks like a cow's gut, the gut is not a cow but it is Shirako, which is the male genitalia fish and a bag containing sperm. Shirako be a popular dish at the sushi bar. and pubs in Japan (Izakaya)

2. Inago no Tsukudani

"Inago no Tsukudani" is a traditional Japanese food is popular in the rural area of ​​Yamagata, Nagano and Gunma. This food is made ​​of boiled locusts in the "tsukudani", a type of soy sauce and spices plus special Japanese style.

3. Basashi

This food is famous in Kumamoto, Nagano and Oita and a common food that is also in the Tohoku region. Raw horse meat in the Japanese language "sakuraniku". "Sakura" is the name of the flower which only grows in Japan coupled with the "niku" which means flesh. But it would be "basashi" if it was served with thin slices of sashimi

4. Natto

Foods that one may already be familiar to us. Natto is fermented soy food that smells quite pungent and very sticky like spider webs are usually served for breakfast in Japan.

5. Fugu

"Fugu" is the Japanese word for pufferfish. kanji characters used to write fugu literally meaning river pig. Not that the actual river pig, just a metaphor. Fugu meat is edible, but the skin, liver and ovaries contain a deadly poison tetrododoxin. If one of these elements will be consumed the poison paralyzes the muscles while the victim remains fully conscious and could eventually die from suffocation. Japanese Restaurants can serve meat Fugu if performed by a qualified chef. So, do not even try to eat the fish if we do not have any special expertise.

6. Hachinoko

Bee larvae "Hachinoko" is a substitute for peanut snacks to satisfy your protein intake to re-indulge. Bee larvae "Hachinoko" mixed with rice flavored with soy sauce and sugar is turned into a favorite dish of the late Emperor of Japan.

7. Zazamushi

Zazamushi (insects that live in water) is the strangest food is widely available in restaurants in Japan either canned or bottled. Zazamushi was not the insect, but an insect larvae that live in the riverbed. Insects "Mushi" is located on the river makes the sound "zaazaa" as it flows.

8. Kujira & Iruca

Proof that the Japanese whale "kujira" still consumed as food in dishes such as sashimi. We do not recommend this one, because whales including protected animals and has threatened the population.

9. Shiokara

Shiokara is seafood that has been fermented with a salty flavor and fishy.

10. Shirouo no Odorigui

Shirouo is a Japanese dish with a small transparent fish eating you alive. Named Shirouo Odogui because when eaten no fish will be dancing in the mouth.

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