fresh fish

We visit a “harbor” in Saitama where we eat an enormous bowl of fresh sashimi over rice

Who says you can’t get good seafood in a landlocked prefecture?

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How you know your fish is too fresh: when it comes with a warning “may come back to life” 【Pics】

“So, uh, can we just talk about this?”

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Great Tasting Sashimi Dishes For Very Reasonable Prices—in Ginza Nonetheless!

Assorted Sashimi Plate

Itamae Baru, a Japanese food restaurant in Tokyo’s ritzy Ginza district, offers dishes to get excited over!  Why? You can’t find steamed abalone for 500 yen ($6.25 US) or uni pasta with generous amounts of sea urchin for 780 yen ($9.75 US) this tasty anywhere else in the city!

Itame Bare is one of these wonderful up and rising  restaurants where young itamae, or sushi chefs, create Japanese dishes for astonishing low prices! 

We went to Baru for a taste of this amazing fare. Read More