Omicho Fish Market, Kanazwa
Sunday, May 28 2006 @ 04:56 PM | Contributed by:
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 Kanazawa City in the Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, is famous for its large variety of fish. A visit to the Omicho market is therefore a must. You can try many specialties and raise some appetite before going to dinner to one of the many small and excellent sushi-restaurants. On this first picture, you can see one of the vendors of already cooked food, Kushiyaki in this case. They fry different types of fish and squid and roast it on sticks over a fire.
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The first two pictures show shops with fresh fish, the third is selling already smoked or grilled fish. From the shape of the smaller fish on the bottom right, you can see that they have been fried, bent and stuck on sticks.
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Kani, spider-crabs are a well-known delicacy. They are priced by piece and very tasty, be it cooked on rice or as shabu-shabu with sesame-sauce. A lot of things are sold air-dried, just like beef-jerky. Here you can see entire squids. They will be roasted and eaten as a snack, maybe with some mayonnaise and beer.
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There are also sweets sold there, this time only fish-shaped. Actually they contain sweet bean paste and due to their shape are called Tai-Yaki, Tai beeing the name of the depicted fish), yaki meaning grilled. They are made like waffles. At the same shop they sell Tako-Yaki, this being with real tako (Octopus). They use a special dough, put it into the ball-shaped hole on the grill and a piece of octopus on top. Once the downside is hard, they flip it around in a quick movement and thus shape a ball. This will be topped with mayonnaise, fish-flakes and special sauce and eaten on the street. The taste is very similar to Okonomiyaki.
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Kanazawa City in the Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, is famous for its large variety of fish. A visit to the Omicho market is therefore a must. You can try many specialties and raise some appetite before going to dinner to one of the many small and excellent sushi-restaurants. On this first picture, you can see one of the vendors of already cooked food, Kushiyaki in this case. They fry different types of fish and squid and roast it on sticks over a fire.
