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| Dried fish hanging out the front of the restaurant. |
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| Ghoulish... a lamp made out of fish skin... though in reality it's no different from a leather lounge.. There's something about light shining through part of a carcase that I find disconcerting ... |
Friday, 3 August 2012
A fish restaurant in Koenji
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A lamp made of fish skin? Ye gods and little fishes, even The Hero wouldn't want that around!
Identifying fish. Oh dear. Let's see. There's iwana, which is a trout, but then there's a landlocked version that's called a something (nan dake?) salmon. Then there'a a yamame that's ...
Sea chicken. Let's just eat sea chicken. Much easier. :D
Fish are like cars!
I love that comment! And I agree. I've been asked to translate types of fish at dinner parties and ALWAYA have to rely on my electronic dictionary or Wikipedia on my phone. Most of the time even when I succeed in finding an English translation the person just states at me blankly... I guess it is a case of the Inuit and their words for snow?
PS - my verification word was "thisUSA"... Say wha?!?
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I hear you Sarah... like ayu = sweetfish... It's a bit gobo really - just let it be...(Maybe coming from Canada burdock root has a meaning, but not here :) )
I know more fish names in Japanese but few I can correlate with English - this is coming from a country where fish and chips is exactly that - FISH who cares what sort - probably shark but who's asking and chips - hot.
The lamp took my back to my high school text books of Nazi concentration camps...
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