Otsumami
 

How do you call these kind of foods which

1) eat it during drinking alcohol
2) not sweet, rather salty or spicy
3) not for children

We call them TSUMAMI, O-TSUMAMI or SAKE NO SAKANA.

Here is an example "dried seaweed chip with sesame".

what's that??

kind of seaweed? or dry chilly?

It's dried seaweed (WAKAME) with sesame as described.

Be careful! It's very hard and sometimes hurts your mouth at inside.

eh... beer food?

like... i forgot the japanese name...
but i think it was skate wings?

Oh, do you mean EI-HIRE (Fin of Stingray)?

And you call such kind of stuff as beer food. I see. Thank you.

ししゃも
 

ししゃも; Shishamo (sometimes with roe)

Dried by the sunlight for preservation,

Grilled on fire,



Then served.



Once I introduced this shishamo to a girl from US. She said "it seems to be screaming... May I remove its head?". We allowed her to remove the head but she could not enjoy it.

歌舞伎揚げ
 

歌舞伎揚げ:kabukiage

Fried rice cake



Package (pack in pack)



Once my college from Australia loved this fried rice cake saying "I have never eaten such tasty stuff!".

柿ピー
 

柿ピー: 柿の種 with ピーナッツ; seeds of parsimmon with peanuts

"seeds of parsimmon" is not real seeds. they are rice cake coated by soy sauce.



In small package.



Every time I visited Germany, local people loved these packs very much because of its spicy taste.

Those all do seem really good, I may just have to try them out^^

えだまめ
 

枝豆：えだまめ; Soybeans with shell boiled in salt water



You can pop the beans up from the shell

And so do I:)

I guess not so difficult to find good Japanese snacks in Sydney, but Cairns is another story.

We have a few shops but very small and limited in selection.

I'd rather my son eat these instead of extra salty and oily Australian potato chips.

I had some green beans "Eta mume" (spelling) today at the Sushi train shop.

For dinner I had Agedashi Tofu, Ebi Fry, and special white fish of the day:)

Your photos are making me hungry, and missing Japan:ywave:

ほっけ
 

：ホッケ：ほっけ：Pleurogrammus azonus、Arabesque greenling

Grilled



I like this very much.

イカ
 

イカ：いか; squid

grilled.



ゲソ：げそ;Geso

The legs are also served as GESO.

かわえび
 

川海老：かわえび;kawa-ebi;rever shrimp

fried

やきとり
 

焼き鳥：やきとり;Yaki-tori; grilled chicken

ねぎま：negima; Chicken and green onion.

Very standard Yakitori



はつ：heart of chicken

I don't really like this....



レバ：れば；liver



ぼんじり;bonjiri:Tail of chicken

This is my recommendation. Only one piece can be taken from one chicken.
Tasty!



軟骨：なんこつ;nankotsu;soft bone of chicken

I'm sorry making you miss Japan.

So much for today!

あんきも
 

アン肝：あんきも；AN-KIMO;アンコウの肝;Liver of an angler who lives deep in the sea.

Boild or steamed and then Served.

It tastes like "foie gras". I like AN-KIMO much better.

I also enjoyed eating this..
it is very spicy at times and a good snack when I'm watching movies..
:vsign:

いか
 

烏賊：イカ;ika; squid

We eat squid as sashimi (raw) in Japan.

Also ika-no-maruyaki (grilled squid) is tasty with ginger.



Ika-no-Shiokara (fermented Squid) would be hard for foreign people.



Ika-no-kunsei (smoked squid) or ika-kun is my favorite.



Surume or Saki-ika(torn dried squid) is cheap and easy to keep at bottle side.



This is the squid just after dried (surume).

i personally prefer eihirei or ikura >.>''

Ive eaten squid but only the hood. Ive never had the tentacles. I assut they are almost the same as octopus.
I saw somthing where people were eating live octopus!O_o that sounds crazylol

Once I experienced live octopus on fire in Korea. I don't know what name they call the food because it was kind of party. the octopus was on the vegetable on a pan as shown below.



During the octopus suffer in the heat, a waitress came to cut his legs with scissors. I could not eat him because he gazed me.

Simple OTSUMAMI:

Cucumber with SHIO-KOMBU(salted kelp)



They speak in KYUSHU Dialect.