Salmon Ice Cream
A report about a store in the Hokkaido town of Shibetsu selling soft serve ice cream that contains salmon:
The ice cream contains powdered salmon because earlier attempts using non-powdered salmon resulted in disastrously stinky ice cream. Customers interviewed in the report found it to be quite tasty!
Salmon Ice Cream:
Categories: Japanese Food, Odd / Strange
Polite Fish?
Apparently some of the fish at the Hachinohe Aquarium in Aomori Prefecture are able to “bow” to visitors. Their polite behavior even attracted news cameras:
Categories: Animal Videos
How To Pick Up A Live Eel
The trick is to use your middle finger to grip the eel at a spot about 1/3 of the way down its body:
Categories: Japanese Food
Really Big Fish
What do you do when you catch a 208 kilogram giant grouper? Cut it up and eat it, as this Japanese news report shows:
The man cutting it up says he believes it would be large enough to provide nabe pot stew meat for 600 people. The creature looks a bit gross, and I can’t say I agree with the woman who told the cameras, “it looks scary but I want to try it.”
Categories: Japanese Food, Odd / Strange