{"id":73,"date":"2009-04-22T23:55:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T03:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=73"},"modified":"2018-07-27T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T17:42:09","slug":"%e9%83%b7%e5%9c%9f%e6%96%99%e7%90%86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/%e9%83%b7%e5%9c%9f%e6%96%99%e7%90%86\/","title":{"rendered":"(\u90f7\u571f\u6599\u7406)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for the monthly dose of Kyoodo Ryoori (<strong>\u90f7\u571f\u6599\u7406<\/strong>). If you don&#8217;t know what that is, look back at some old posts and it&#8217;ll be clear as day and night. Today we&#8217;re going to take a walk on the wild side to Nagano (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u9577\u91ce\u5e02<\/strong><\/span>). Nagano (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u9577\u91ce\u5e02<\/strong><\/span>) is located in central Japan. It&#8217;s the city that hosted the 1998 winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The special cuisine that we&#8217;re going to take a look at is basashi (<strong>\u99ac\u523a\u3057<\/strong>). Basashi (<strong>\u99ac\u523a\u3057<\/strong>) is horse meat. It&#8217;s sometimes nicknamed as sakuraniku (<strong>\u685c\u8089<\/strong>). Sakura (<strong>\u685c<\/strong>) flowers are pinkish, and so is horse meat. Hence, sakuraniku (<strong>\u685c\u8089<\/strong>) means sakura meat or pink\/red meat. The common assumption people make about why people eat horse meat stems around the issue of poverty. It&#8217;s assumed that only poor people would eat horse meat because they can&#8217;t afford beef or chicken. In reality, horse meat is more expensive than beef or chicken. It&#8217;s actually only middle class\/rich people that afford such meat. In Japan, it&#8217;s not uncommon to find restaurants that serve horse meat. You certaintly don&#8217;t have to go to Nagano to get it, but that&#8217;s what Nagano is known for.<\/p>\n<p>Basashi (<strong>\u99ac\u523a\u3057<\/strong>) can be served raw. The meat is\u00a0thinly sliced and dipped into\u00a0some soy sauce, ginger, onions\u00a0and sake (<strong>\u3055\u3051<\/strong>) mix. There&#8217;s also baniku (<strong>\u3070\u3044\u306b\u304f<\/strong>) which is a horse barbecue. The meat is marinated and grilled on a burner. Sometimes the meat is consumed with a shiso (<strong>\u3057\u305d<\/strong>) leaf.\u00a0A shiso (<strong>\u3057\u305d<\/strong>) leaf is a edible green leaf with jagged edges. Shiso (<strong>\u3057\u305d<\/strong>) tastes like mint. The meat (and sometimes rice) is placed within the leaf and\u00a0consumed like a\u00a0leaf wrap.\u00a0Then there&#8217;s also bagushi (<strong>\u3070\u3050\u3057<\/strong>), which is skewered horse meat on a stick.<\/p>\n<p>The last thing I want to add is that you should keep an open mind about basashi (<strong>\u3070\u3055\u3057<\/strong>). You may find it revolting to eat horses, but think about some of the foods in your own culture and how some cultures might find that particular cuisine despicable. It&#8217;s all relative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for the monthly dose of Kyoodo Ryoori (\u90f7\u571f\u6599\u7406). If you don&#8217;t know what that is, look back at some old posts and it&#8217;ll be clear as day and night. Today we&#8217;re going to take a walk on the wild side to Nagano (\u9577\u91ce\u5e02). Nagano (\u9577\u91ce\u5e02) is located in central Japan. 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