ALN...love sashimi.. yes or no.....this kind from here.
never say he will never know,
such kind of sashimi also got...no more Woodland.liao..haha.
I was a little at lost about how to categorize this, should it
be strange or savory or both? In the end, what’s strange to me may
not be strange to the Japanese people because to them horse meat
sashimi is a delicacy. Horse meat is not strange to many culture in
the world. Places like France, Belgium, Quebec, Poland, Kazakhstan
eat horse meat too.
This delicacy of horse meat is called called sakura (桜) or
sakuraniku (桜肉, sakura means cherry blossom, niku means meat)
because of the meat’s pink colour. It is very chewy and can be
served raw as very chewy sashimi in thin slices dipped in soy
sauce, often with ginger and onions added. In this case, it is
called basashi (Japanese: 馬刺し). Fat, typically from the neck, is
also found as basashi, though it is white, not pink. Horse meat is
also sometimes found on menus for yakiniku (a type of barbecue),
where it is called baniku (lit., horse meat) or bagushi (lit.,
skewered horse); thin slices of raw horse meat are sometimes served
wrapped in a shiso leaf.
Kumamoto and Matsumoto city are famous for basashi, and it is
common in the Tohoku region as
well.
Perhaps I WILL name this as strange as there is also a dessert
made from horse meat called Basashi ice cream. I’m at lost for
words for a few second after reading that line, but I recovered
quickly when i thought about other ice cream flavors such as
natto in the
market as well. The company that makes it is known for its unusual
ice cream flavours, many of which have limited popularity.
Source: wikipedia
