It would have to be the biggest day of the year at the supermarket.
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| Sashimi |
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| Sashimi from a variety of fish |
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| Salmon and tuna sashim |
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| Crab meat - (perhaps fake crab meat) and flounder (I think) |
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| Frozen crab |
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| Sushi |
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| Prawns |
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| Local osechi (traditional new year ) food |
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| supermarket stacked with sushi trays |
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| Salmon eggs |
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| Sea cucumber |
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| scallos |
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| will check with hiro what this is |
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| nishin fish with kombu |
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| Kazunoko - cod eggs |
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| more kazunoko i think |
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| stingray |
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| prawns |
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| octopus |
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| hata hata - the local Akita fish |
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| Namako |
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| Meat trays for those who can't bear the thought of another year of cold osechi ryori. |
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| yakitori |
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| yakitori - chicken skin and cartelige etc |
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| fried chicken |
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| kakeage - massive price hike for New Year |
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| Fried prawns |
7 comments:
Err. Could I just have a triple serving of kurikinton, please? :D
I'll never cease to marvel at the amount of seafood consumed in Japan. Phew.
I'm not much a fan of that... it's too sweet. Kuromame, and egg and the nimono and ...
looking forward to shabu shabu the following day to put some heat into the body.
I am SO JEALOUS. I love these. I wanted to take pictures like this in the supermarket but I was with Sam and he thinks it's illegal or something. He always tells the same joke when there's that much seafood around -- the ocean called, it's running out of fish. Then I do mine where I pick up a package of frozen crab legs and he asks me if I have crab legs and I say, "No, that's just the way I walk."
Hiro thinks it's illegal too and pointedly kept his distance. He has mellowed a bit over the years, and I think the fact that it was on an ipad rather than with a camera made it seem fractionally less obtrusive and as such fractionally more tolerable.
We've bought premade osechi at the grocery store before, I'm pretty sure it was the 31st. There were hordes buying packages and bits and pieces. There were individual packs of things like the black beans and egg rolls, but also larger variety packs with a selection of various things.
None of which I enjoyed much... Far too sweet and salty! Sigh....
I am not sure that I saw any packs of kuromame, or the daikon carrot mix - or anything like a variety pack selection. Interesting. It's possible I didn't notice them, will be alert to it next year.
Hope you enjoyed the NY.
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