Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Gaining Insights into What It’s Like to Eat Horse in Japan !!!”.
Hey everyone, thanks for checking in for another exciting episode of your favorite YouTube series, we’ll be starting this year off with a bang with yet another amazing Japan, themed list so funny story. I was trying to search cute horses on the internet, but mistakenly, I rode cut horses instead of cute trust. Me it’s the worst mistake. I’Ve made this year so far anyway, traumatic images aside. The mistake actually got me thinking about some of the weirder Japanese foods. That would probably disturb some non-japanese Foodies. These meals are controversial because of the questionable ethics behind how they’re made and how much of a cultural shock they represent to foreigners when they’re served on the table.
I want to make it clear that I strongly disagree with comments. Calling people disgusting for eating certain things in some places people eat different things, that’s not disgusting. It’S just the way it is meow could be a lot more open-minded. However, I’m not gon na lie.
The idea of eating a horse does make me uncomfortable, but at the same time I’m adventurous and open-minded too, and there’s no actual logical reason why people don’t eat horse. You’Ve probably heard the expression I’m so hungry. I could eat a horse. Well.
That may have been the case in the UK after they accidentally ate horsemead during the infamous horse meat scandal. Pretty sure they didn’t complain about the taste until they found out what it was. I think it’s disgusting, because if I’m going into a supermarket and I’m thinking I’m buying beef, I’m really aren’t buying boost me. It’S as a matter of fact eating horse meat was quite common in numerous Asian, South American and European cultures.
In the prehistoric era, horses provided much needed protein for survival and pretty much every ancient culture has a Meal made from horse meat. I mean from Kyushu in southern Japan to Delicacies in Mexico, Switzerland, Indonesia and even Uzbekistan in Italy. Horse meat has always been a super common thing.
Both raw and cooked. Many people grew up eating horse meat on a regular basis in Germany and it’s delicious food for them too. But let’s go back to Japan from the 6th Century up until the 1860s and was prohibited to eat any four-legged animals in Japan as a result of the popularity of the Buddhist belief in reincarnation. This meant that the tasty looking coward deer you wanted to eat for dinner may have been their reincarnated soul of your ancestors or someone beloved to you. So generally, the ancient people were hesitant to eat them. In addition to this, there was also the pretty hefty punishment of a hundred days of fasting administered to anyone caught roasting, the Flesh of a cow or horse. So yeah, it’s no wonder nobody ate them by the 1960s.
However, the Advent of motorized vehicles removed the dependence on horses and the result was that they suddenly started looking really good as an item on the menu in Japan. This raw horse meat is called Sakura niku. It is a low-fat tender meat with a slightly sweet flavor when served as Sashimi. It is cut into small slices and served with a sauce made of soy, onions and ginger, despite it being eaten raw there’s a very low incidence of foodborne illness in Japan, and I chalk it up to the high quality of the food components and the rigorous preparation Process the best places to try freshly prepared horse meat in Japan would be the tohoku Oita, Nagano and Kumamoto regions, as well as at the Izakaya bars.
Horsemead is the most popular dish in Kumamoto, and the demand for this delicacy in Japan can get so high that more than 300 horses were shipped from Winnipeg and Canada to Japan in 2016.. According to the Canadian food inspection agency, some of the most popular horse dishes you may want to try include basashi, yakinuku and Sakura. Nabe. Japanese basashi belongs to the Sashimi group of dishes and, as you know, this means that it served raw in thin slices flavor-wise.
It has a slightly sweet, flavor and, depending on the maturity, its color can range from pink to dark red Masashi, also known as Sakura niku, which translates to Cherry meat because of its pink color is lean juicy and tastes a bit like lean and slightly chewier beef. Yakiniku is a kind of horse meat barbecue, that’s popular all across Japan. It is super tasty and popular, although it is more popular with beef than horse. It’S typically listed on the menu as bakushi horse, skewers or banuku horse meat.
Sakura nabe nabe in Japanese refers to Hot Pot dishes, and this hot pot dish has horse meat as its main component. This dish is prepared in a similar manner to sukiyaki, in that the meat is cooked at your table in a simmering pot of Dashi, shoyu and mirin, which complement the natural sweetness of the horse meat. However, you slice it and bias aside. Horse meat has been scientifically proven to be low-fat protein, rich and high in calories. It is also a rich source of iron and ultimately better for your heart than some other more traditional sources of meat.
So if you’re adventurous, then why not give it a try, see you in the next episode .