Japan Exotic Cuisine

Japan Exotic Cuisine

1. SHIRAKO ( fISH SPERM)

After reading that individuals in Japan eat fish sperm from male fishes as a popular dish at pubs, I found it disgusting to be eating sperm from a fish or any sperm. I personally find it hard to put my head around eating sperm, however this may be because of cultural differences and the environment where I grew up.

2. BASAHI (RED HORSE MEAT)

Like raw salmon which can be serve in sushi restaurants in Calgary, individuals in Japan eat raw horse meat as an option as well. I find this to be an interesting cuisine since we eat numerous of animals and some animals and seafood raw or rare. This therefore does not seem  odd to me that people would eat horse. However, eating raw horse meat would be a challenge for me, if I had the chance to experience it.

3. FUGU(POISONOUS FISH)

This dish is a dangerous dish, since it contains poisonous skins and organs, where only license chefs can prepare and cook this dish as it kills a couple of people every year. Eating this dish is highly dangerous, but I assume individuals take the risk because of it being a delicious dish. I believe that even though the chef may be license in preparing and cooking the dish, chefs could make a mistake, therefore resulting in the deaths of people in Japan every year.

4. KUJIRA AND IJURA

This fourth cuisine is whales and dolphins where individuals can prepare these in any sort of way they decide. I believe that because of whales and dolphins being a cuisine in Japan, whales and dolphins will become extinct because of the amount of people who eat this. I personally do not like eating seafood, therefore I most likely won’t ever try experience eating one and don’t have the heart to eat whales and dolphins.

5. SHRIOUO(dancing icefish)

I believe that Japanese people find it natural to be eating these certain kind of unique dishes since they most likely grew up eating these dishes on a regular basis. Cultural differences and assumptions would cause me to be afraid to challenge myself to try these exotic dishes. I would assume the worse of these cuisine before actually experiencing them. My mind would make the assumption that it would taste bad because of the sight and knowing what kind of ingredients are used to make these exotic cuisines.