How to handle the fish menu !

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Sorry for the page heavy in cause of many photos.
You can get the rythmical Hashi manner for fish menu !

Today's theme is boilded fish "KINKI"(red bream)
sweet soy sauce taste.
In Hokkaido (northan part of Japan), we call "MENME".
It is one of the most suited for boiled fish menu.
Almost entrails have been removed bofore cooking.
But, full body/whole fish menu it is.
There are too many small bones. A bony fish . Hi ! Bony ~.
It's good enough target to enjoy Hashi manner .
Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha, Hey,Hey,Hey.
Do not escape before charanging. Here we go !

Let's consider a plan of this operation.
The fundamental principles are as follows. How to eat it elegantly and tasty !

  1. Understand the pleasure of silence
  2. Do not pick it up. Fit softly, Slide off (disassemble) and scoop up.
  3. Scoop up by large portion, not only the meat but also bone.
  4. Even, love the fish bone.


There are some bones in green circles.
Then, Hashi operation procedure is as arrows.
  • ‡@Remove the "Kama"(near the gills of fish)
  • ‡AFit and insert the Hashi along with the side lines , and then silide off the meat portion.
  • ‡BInsert the Hashi under the back bone and lift it up softly to remove.
  • ‡CAround fins area are very much bony. Insert the hashi under the fins softly to remove them.
  • ‡DHead area , , , , Mu,Mu,Mu, incredible extreamly wonderfull tasty part .

................Shall we go ?





Let's start !


What a wonderful world ~ . ‡@&‡A are well done.
I will show you removed "Kama"part later , again.
Look there ! In the all pictures, there are no cramping and picking action.
Fit the Hashi, Slide off, Scoop up, disassemble the large potion.


So, upper side meats are tasted well and moved into your stomach.
From now on, next step to remove the bones in the middle and at the fins area.



Shall we go !


Lift it up with finger assistance, taking hold the lower meat, the bone is disassembled, , ,
Throughout to the end , disassembling as middle bone set.
Around fins area also, bones can be removed by the same way.

At the head area, you can be the treasure hunter.
Do not throw away.
The cheek meat also, open, up side down, scoop it out , , , look there !

See followings.


What a wonderfull world ~ ~
Until now, you lost your heart to "Kinki " don't you ?
The rich gelatin under the cheek, , , , Chew the bone. Chew,chew , ,



The "Kama" area disassembled ‡@, it is one of the most tasty area of all kinds of fish.
Fantastic taste ! You will be a cat.
Please be carefull , , , , , inside of here , , , ,

Now, coming. Look it !
This is a prize for your good job !
"Tai-bone"(Looks like bream fish)
The center of this bone is very much fragile.
If you can get complete shape, it means "you are lucky ! Today".
A kind of fortune cookies in the fish menu. Can you imagne ?

Something nice , today ??




Full fill some hot water and wait a minute.
Steer the soup. It's a fish bone soup.
How about you ?
You get the good appetite for Japanese fish menu, now !, don't you ?







Next step is "Hiya-yakko" (Tofu menu). Would you like to try ? 




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