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Thursday, April 21, 2005

Basashi: Horse Sashimi

I didn`t know it existed either.

I was pretty taken aback when I first encountered it in a Japanese oden restaurant in Kagoshima, Kyushu.

Raw horse meat. Frozen stiff. The image of the survivors` main nourishment in the movie `Alive` came to my mind. I wondered how my conscience could survive this...

But apparently, my conscience had long degenerated so there weren`t any ethics to consider about.

Besides, my host family highly recommended it so it would be rude to reject their warm kindness (they treated me to chicken sashimi when I first arrived in Kagoshima).

And it would prove to be my downfall.

I fell in love with it.

雪降りの馬刺し

`Snow-descending horse sashimi`

It`s strange how frozen food can still be a culinary miracle. The horse sashimi I ate was chilled till hard and sliced into 5mm thickness.

They called it 雪降りの馬刺し or `snow-descending horse sashimi` (now this really associated with ` Alive` -_-""" )

It`s eaten with thinly sliced white radish and soysauce that`s flavoured with minced garlic and shallot.

I understood why they named it as such when I savoured the dish. It did have an uncanny feeling of snow melting in the mouth.

Absolutely fantastic feeling. And delicious too.

I supposed the marbled fats assisted in creating the sensation of melting ice.

To say the least, when I saw that horse sashimi was available in a menu after I returned to Tokyo, I immediately ordered it.

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Carol blogged @ 7:41 PM

3 Comments:

(O_O)!! surely u hv SOME idea how grosse that sounds, much less looks and tastes...urgh...Jau

By Anonymous, at 8:25 AM

n i guess there are just SOME animals i refuse to eat after all...and horse probably falls under that category...haha...dun ask me why...i simply won't...Jau

By Anonymous, at 8:26 AM

oh... wat a pity coz it was good!

By Carol, at 8:55 PM

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