Speaking of sardine dishes, I remember, sashimi, namerou, grilled, and iwashi mentai. That’s all. But Funakko (ふなっ子) in Higashi Funabashi area have a variety of sardine dishes. This wall have an atmosphere of port town 🙂
Otoshi and my drink. Otoshi is included in table charge. Most izakaya require table (300-700 yen) charge and serve small dish as otoshi. That day’s otoshi was boiled vegetables.
This is sardine yukkhoe. Roughly minced sardine and sauce like yukkhoe. I like it. Its sardines didn’t have much fat, so it was just good with sesame oil and yolk of quail’s egg.
And this is sadines namerou. Roughly minced sardine with green onion, miso and so on. It was served with plum vinegar and ginger. This is a local food of Chiba prefecture. But now it’s common way of eating sardine and horse mackerel. It’s my delight. But I didn’t need the vinegar. It’s enough great without vinegar.
Raw laver. This was the first time to eat laver as raw. I can’t forget its texture.
Sardine croquette. Whole sardine dressed with coating was fried deeply. It have potato having curry flavor in it. Truthfully speaking, it’s heavy for me because of potato. My stomach felt bloated with the potatoes 😛
Deep fried asari clam. They are sardine-centric restaurant, but they are proud of their asari clam. Asari clam is a specialty of this town, Funabashi.
Mehikari karaage. Mehikari is Chlorophthalmus borealis. Small fishes like smelt fish.
We found the word kakifurai on the menu. We couldn’t help ordering it. Kakifurai is deep fried oysters. We love it. It’s enough large and juicy.
Oh, we ate much deep fried foods. I forgot to take the picture, but we also ate soft roe tempura. And this is sardine sangayaki. Sangayaki is roasted namerou. Though it’s good, it’s well cooked.
The best way of eating sardine for me is iwashi mentai. Iwashi means sardine and mentai is mentaiko. Mentaiko is marinated cod roe with spicy sauce. Those pink things are mentaiko. Heaven.
Beef tendon with ponzu sauce. It’s not good. This say we’d better eat only seafoods there.
Last, we had minced sardine balls soup. The soup is simple wakame seaweed soup. I think it’s better if the soup have extract of seafood like konbu seaweed and so on. But those balls were good.
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