Culture of eating raw food in Japan

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Last Updated on 10/30/2021 by てんしょく飯

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Horse sashimi

Basashi is a Japanese dish in which horse meat is sliced ​​and eaten raw.

Horse sashimi is roughly divided into “Toro”, “Marbled”, and “Red meat”, and in addition to “Mane sashimi” and “Kone (mane fat)”, which are prized because the amount that can be obtained from each horse is small, the smell There are also “liver sashimi” and “mane sashimi” that have almost no sashimi.

The custom of eating raw horse meat in Japan exists in Kumamoto, Nagano, Yamanashi, and Shizuoka prefectures. Areas with a habit of eating horse meat have been a famous horse producing area since ancient times, and it is thought that a culture directly linked to horse production has taken root.

Chicken sashimi

Torisashi is the name for chicken sashimi.

Eat sliced ​​raw chicken or gizzards in soy sauce with condiments such as garlic, ginger, and yuzu pepper, or with seasonings such as sesame oil with salt.

In Kagoshima prefecture, chicken torisashi can be eaten as a “tataki” with the skin on the surface. In order to prevent food poisoning, Kagoshima Prefecture has established its own strict hygiene standard “sanitary standard for raw poultry meat” by using special cutting boards and kitchen knives and cleaning and disinfecting equipment with warm water. Those cooked at facilities that have cleared it are sold at stores.

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