Chinmi

Summary

Chinmi (珍味) is a Japanese term meaning literally "rare taste", but more appropriately "delicacy". They are local cuisines that have fallen out of popularity or those cuisines that are peculiar to a certain area. Many involve pickled seafood.[1][2]

Chinmi: Salt-pickled mullet roe (karasumi)

List of chinmi edit

Hokkaidō area edit

  • Hizunamasu
  • Ikanankotsu – Cooked soft bones of squid
  • Kankai – Dried Komai fish. It may be eaten as is, or broiled and eaten with a sauce made by mixing mayonnaise and soy sauce and sprinkles of red pepper powder.
  • Kirikomi
  • Matsumaezuke
  • Mefun
  • Saketoba – A smoked salmon
  • Tachikama
  • Uni

Tōhoku area edit

  • Awabi no Kimo – Ground internal organs of abalone
  • Donpiko – The heart of a salmon. As only one can be taken from a fish, it is very rare.
  • Hoyasea pineapple
  • Momijizuke – Shreds of fresh salmons and Ikura pickled together
  • Tonburi – A speciality of Akita prefecture. The dried seeds of the hosagi plant.

Kanto area edit

  • Ankimo – Either fresh or steamed liver of an Anko fish
  • Kusaya – Dried and pickled fish of Izu islands

Chūbu area edit

  • Fugu no Ranso no Nukazuke – detoxed blowfish ovary in rice-bran
  • Hebo
  • Ika no Maruboshi
  • Inago no Tsukudani
  • Konowata
  • Kuchiko
  • Kurozukuri
  • Zazamushi

Kinki area edit

Chūgoku area edit

  • Hiroshimana

Shikoku area edit

Kyūshū area edit

Okinawa area edit

  • Tofuyo
  • Umibudo – A type of edible seaweed with tiny seeds that hang from its stems

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Things you need to know about Japanese Chinmi". 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Japan's Most Challenging Food". 4 June 2016.