Whale interior introduction
Kyushu Kyushu Market, Japan
Whale meat rice bowl
Whale meat in the supermarket
Japan's raw food culture is famous all over the world, with sashimi being the most influential.
After coming to Japan for so many years, I was surprised to find that the Japanese people are also very "fierce" in terms of diet, and the fish is not as raw as the Japanese dare not eat.
Mackerel looks very fishy to itself, suitable for braised pork, japanese people eat
Fork tooth fish seems to be suitable for steaming, and Japanese people eat it
Dolphins seem to be suitable for viewing, and Japanese people eat them
The whales seem so big and big to themselves, but the Japanese still eat them raw.
Grass... I don't know if the "scavenger" dares to eat it raw [Cover Face R] [Cover Face R] to solve the ecological problems of our human beings.
Today I came to the Japanese hushi fish market, it is said that the local whale meat is very famous, with a "life-sacrificing" attitude (I am not too cold about sashimi, let alone whale meat) try it, before introducing the taste, I want to talk about the history of Japanese whaling.
According to the archaeological literature of Japan, many utensils made of whale bones have been found in a large number of monuments and artifacts in the Jomon period, so it can be speculated that Japan's whaling culture dates back to the Jomon period, when people whaling mainly used tides to guide whales to shallow waters and run them aground and then hunt them.
From the end of the Heian period to the Kamakura shogunate, there were documentary records of groups casting nets to hunt whales, with several to dozens of ships surrounding the whales, stabbing them to death with spears, and then pulling the whales back to shore with large fishing nets
During World War II, whaling in Japan reached a peak due to food shortages, and the development of industry made whaling easy.
It was not until the establishment of the International Whaling Commission in 1948 that the number of whaling in Japan was slowly brought under control.
Unlike in the past, in order to solve the problem of food and clothing, whaling in modern Japan is mainly for two reasons. 1, the extraction of industrial raw materials, whale oil can be used in the tanning industry, but also used as a lubricant. After hydrogenation, it can be used as a raw material for edible and manufactured soap, candles, etc. 2, a culture and a "feeling". In fact, there are very few young people who eat whale meat in Japan now, mainly some older generations have started eating since childhood, and they may not be used to eating whale meat for a period of time.
[The most critical and critical] moment is coming, share the feeling of eating whale sashimi today.
I ordered two plates of sashimi + a whale sashimi rice bowl
Before eating, the owner saw that I was nervous and kept comforting me, emphasizing that "it's delicious, high protein, low fat, and a lot of drops of vitamin A."
So I held the original state of anxiety in my heart first ate the next sashimi, fishy taste + oil whirring, or acceptable, the second bite put some mustard and ginger, the taste is much better, the highlight is the bloody whale sashimi rice bowl, whale meat with soy sauce marinated, I thought it would be better to pickle, a bite down, fishy + bloody + greasy + salty taste of soy sauce at the same time in my mouth, I was so contained, thinking why do you look at me, why do you look at me, why... I swallowed it alive in the face, and the final result was that there was a lot left, and when the shopkeeper looked at me and I looked at him at the checkout, we probably thought "It's not all his fault" [crying R] [crying R] [crying R]