Fish Market near Japanese Ocean
Posted December 30th, 2008 in Food, Japan No Comments »Today I went to Tsuruga city in Fukui Pref. The purpose was to buy some crabs from this famous fish market 🙂
(BTW Tsuruga city is located next to Obama city = was unofficially supporting Barack Obama during U.S. Presidental election because of the similarities in names.)
There were so many people inside… many seafood too :p I saw a huge octopus (approx 50m x 1.5m), lots of crabs, lots and lots of dried cuttlefishes… One of the them looked like a face; is that the face of cuttlefish?? :p (for more photoes, click here )
As there were hundreds of crabs to choose from and all of them looked nice & fresh, we just grabed 2 huge crabs which were arranged on the ice near us. Costed 5000 yen each.
Then we decided to have lunch at a kaiten sushi restaurant inside of the market. Everything was so delish and fresh, I ate so much :p My favorite was tsubu-gai (shellfish) and aburi-salmon (seared salmon). Yum!
Then we headed to home. I love the view from the car… Lots of mountains and lots of rice field… (country side!)
At night, we cooked crab steam boat (kani nabe) 🙂 Steam boat is the king of Japanese winter food! Lots of veggies… so healthy 🙂 The juice from the crabs and veggies were soooooo delicious and tasty, I didn’t need to season it much. Just water and drops of ponzu. That’s it!
Ate a lot again…
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