Friday 3 August 2012

A fish restaurant in Koenji

Dried fish hanging out the front of the restaurant.
Yesterday wandering the streets of Koenji with a classmate I came across what was unmistakably a restaurant specializing in fish.  According to Hiro the one on the left looks like a hirame, the one on the right a suzuki (sea bass) and he was less committal on the middle fish.  Fish are a bit like planes and cars to me - I can tell a tri plane from a biplane but that's about the extent of it... I still confuse Honda and Hyundai's Hs...
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 ...
 
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4 comments:

Rurousha said...

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

SomedaysSarah said...

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?

SomedaysSarah said...

PS - my verification word was "thisUSA"... Say wha?!?

Cecilia said...

:)
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...