Japanese raw food

    We generally eat raw food, fish and eggs and so on. I introduce you to Japanese usual raw food. First, it is Sashimi. Sashimi is raw fish sliced thinly. We dip it in soy sauce with Wasabi and eat it. In addition, You can see someting like leaf as shown in the photo below. It is Japanese harb, "Shiso." There is also thin radish under "Shiso." We eat them when we feel a little fishly or want to change the taste. I often wrap Sashimi in Shiso and eat it. Raw fish only is fishy but soy sauce, wasabi and Shiso make it delicious. 

    Soy sauce is one of the important condiments for Japanese. There are some kinds of soy sauce in Japan. One of them, there is soy sauce for Sashimi. It is a little rich and cling Sashimi well. When we eat Sashimi, we mix soy sauce with a little bit Wasabi. Wasabi is Japanese spice. It is very very spicy. If you mistake amount of Wasabi, you can speak nothing for a while. But fresh Wasabi is nice smell. It delete fishy smell and refresh oily. It also has antibacterial effect. 

Wasabi

    If you come to Japan, you can eat it at Japanese restaurants. But it is more familier to eat it at home than at restaurants for Japanese. Sashimi is usual food. So we can buy it at every supermarkets. It is selled like this. The plated some kinds fish is called "Moriawase: 盛合せ."

     

    When we want to eat only one kind of fish, we can also buy a block as below at supermarkets. This shape is called “Saku:柵.” There are some kinds of Saku, yellowtail, salmon and skipjack and so on. 

This is tuna:Maguro.

    It is OK to cut and eat it as Sashimi. But it is also delicious to soak slicing Sashimi with special sauce for about 15 minutes and put it on the rice. Special sauce is mainly made soy sauce, Sake for cooking and Mirin. I like to add it a few drops sesame oil. 

I love this style of eating.

Soy sauce, Sake for cooking, Mirin

I think raw fish goes well with Japanese Sake.  Sake has cool one and  hot one. I like cool Sake. Cups and bottles for Sake are also beautiful. I am happy when I eat Japanese meals and drink Sake with a beautiful cup.

When you come to Japan, please try them!