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Katsu ika odori-don (活いか踊り丼, dancing squid rice bowl) is a Japanese dish consisting of a fresh squid atop either rice or noodles. Upon pouring soy sauce on the squid, it squirms ("dances") as the muscles react to the sodium in the sauce, in a similar manner to how frog legs twitch when being seasoned. [1]
Ikayaki, or grilled squid. Ikayaki (いか焼き, イカ焼き, or 烏賊焼) is a popular fast food in Japan.In much of Japan, the term refers to simple grilled squid topped with soy sauce; the portion of squid served may be the whole body (minus entrails), rings cut from the body, or one or more tentacles, depending on the size. [1]
For starters, "sushi" comes from a Japanese word that means "sour rice." In Japan, it's very simple and doesn't contain too many fancy ingredients beyond the fish, but Western-style sushi can have ...
At port towns where the caught squid are brought ashore, the freshly caught squid are semi-translucent, [2] have excellent texture, and are "marvelously sweet, especially the morning-caught squid shipped alive". [2] In Japan, the abundantly caught surume ika or Japanese flying squid, available from early summer onwards, is used to make this dish.
The ito-zukuri cut (literally 'thread slice'), is the style in which the fish is cut into fine strips, less than 2 mm (1 ⁄ 16 in) in diameter. The fish typically cut with the ito-zukuri style include garfish and squid; [12] [13] squid dish prepared in ito-zukuri is also called ika sōmen and is dipped in dashi or men-tsuyu like eating sōmen ...
Maki-zushi (巻き寿司, rolled sushi) consists of rice and other ingredients rolled together with a sheet of nori. [4] [2] [3] Chu maki (中巻き, medium roll) is a medium-sized rolled maki sushi usually containing several ingredients [2] Futo maki (太巻き, large or fat roll) is a thick rolled maki sushi containing multiple ingredients [4 ...
What's placed inside is called “gu,” or filling. A perennial favorite is umeboshi, or salted plum. A perennial favorite is umeboshi, or salted plum. Or perhaps mentaiko, which is hot, spicy roe.
Odorigui (踊り食い, literally "dancing eating") is a mode of seafood consumption in Japanese cuisine. Odorigui refers to the consumption of live seafood while it is still moving, or the consumption of moving animal parts. [1] Animals usually consumed in odorigui style include octopus, squids, ice gobies, and other similar