6 Aug 2022 4:40 pm
Did not visit Tokyo !
Only Osaka, Hyogo and Kyoto !
For the sole purpose of eating good food !
All of them about 1 1/2 drive away from where we live !
Okay . . . Osaka is a huge "city" and took a little longer to reach our target restaurant.
But in Hyogo and Kyoto we did not need to go through the metropolitan area.
Our target restaurants were in the countryside .
But it was worth it . . . this I can tell you !
Wait for the pictures !
Poor ayu fish . . . first they're impaled alive . . . and then they breathe their last on charcoal !
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For some reason I can't understand . . . Japanese eat EVERYTHING of an ayu fish . . . stomach, head, fins . . . EVERYTHING !
I could not bring myself to do that.
Head . . . stomach . . . fins . . . not for me !
The stomach tastes so bitter !
And their **** too !
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In one restaurant where I requested to at least remove their stomach . . . one of the other customers got so angry and shouted at me : if you don't want to eat their stomach . . . don't eat ayu !
In front of everybody !
That so unusual for a Japanese to go so "ogi-ogi-warui" in front of everyone else !
Afterward the restaurant owner profusely offered his excuses for such bad behavior !
He looked like he was about to perform "seppuku" !
Geez !