Oyishii, You lie!!!!!
So after dinner me and shiv sat down to watch some tv. Like most nights in osaka, tv consists of a crazy food themed show. And by crazy food themed show i'm talking extreme close ups on gravy, screaming and jumping when the food hits the tounge, floresent letters roughly translated to mean "Super Good Yum!" "Good Food Taste" "Oh MY I love the Chef". The grammar of japanese pop culture will be another indeph posting soon to come.
But right now i must stick to my task at hand. Describing these crazy shows. Each night we see at least one partially live animal scooped from the sea, sprinked with some salt or soy based product and eaten while still moving!. All the while the hosts are jumping up and down screaming "OYISHII!!" wich can mean " SOOO GOOD!" All i have to say is "you Lie!". TV hosts "YOU LIE!!"
Scooping your hand into a trawler full of live baby fish and plopping them into your mouth does not equal dinner. It equals madness, with out proper cooking time. The japanese are feinds for freshness and that is why on many shows you will see the animal alive, then on a plate in less than 2 minutes.
shiv and I witnessed a strange cusine dish of squid. 1st the squid is not killed, its skin is just peeled back, then it is chopped into small moving bite sized peices, then its ink is hand mixed with dollops of rice, and lastly the twitchy squid is placed atop the dollop of ink rice and downed my a hyperactive japanese tv host.
I dont get it. Just once i would like to see some one puke after eating a live fish baby, or atleat not scream in excitment while the squid is attaching its tenticles to their esophagus. But i highly doubt that i will ever see the day of japanese refusal of strange food. they are too damn polite and love crazy food
jan
ps the pictures from this post are some random shots of food, Nara japan, deer, todaji trmple, a big buddha, and the jan and shiv! enjoy
posted by jdot @ 2:18 AM
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In Korea we ate something cvalled Sunnukchi. Basically you go to a big aquarium and pick out your octopus then it is cut up with a pair of scissors ( The koreans love to use scissors in a lot of their cooking) The tenticles continue to move on your plate for up to 45 minutes resisting being put in your mouth. A word of warning is given to chew quickly as not to get the suckers stuck on your espoagus going down. .. rumours of foreigners choking to death while eating this dish are vast. The short end of the stick is it was actually really good and unbalivably fresh. The best sushi i have ever had... but oh my what a show. The find the restaurant we had to ask around, and went to our local neighbourhood police station to do so. The friendly cop escorted Paul and some friends in the back of the police car to the nearest restaurant while playing hey Jude.... what a thrill.
xoxo Sandra
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