Although horse meat can be common for Westerners, raw ones that can be eaten just like that might not be so! This time we went to look for the famous horse meat in Kumamoto!
Like I said in my last blog, I was staying in a public bath/ sauna place so we are actually inside the shopping street!
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There is one horse meat restaurant that is very catchy when you walked passed it, so we decided to go there after we met up with the 2 new joiners of this graduation trip! It's called Kumamoto Baniku Yokocho (meaning Horse meat in one of the side streets)
As we are eating quite late, we didn't order too much (but still bbq is quite heavy for night snacks)
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| Raw Horse meat that can be eaten just like that. |
We weren't really sure whether we will like it, so we ordered the smallest size!
Basashi (Raw Horse meat) is quite expensive to eat: For 1 person = 1200 yen. 2 persons: 2400yen etc. (please visit the website menu here http://kumamotobaniku.com/menu.php)
I must say it's tougher than raw beef and taste quite raw in the sense that you know you are eating horse? It's not too hard to chew but you have to make an effort. It doesn't have a strong taste by itself so adding sauce is definitely a good choice.
But if you ask me to choose, I will definitely choose the bbq horse meat over this. Or I will choose raw fish instead.
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| Horse meat f or bbq for 2persons |
As we didn't know which part of the horse will taste the best, we ordered the "Total Horse Meat Combination" set. (though if you are expert on eating this, you can order parts separately)
This set combination price is: - 1 person: 1600 yen; 2 persons 3200 yen, 3 persons 4800 yen; 4 persons 6400 yen (all excluded tax). We ordered a 2 persons one.
We were sitting on the seats where you have to take off your socks and sit on the wooden floor. ^^
The horse meat tasted delicious! After it's bbqed, it tasted completely different from the raw ones. It's tender and easy to eat and it tastes kind of like beef!!
The oil made it super meaty and I will definitely go and retry!
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| Horse meat croquette 550yen |
Croquette is one of my favourite Japanese food and I was sooooo excited to see a croquette that is made specially of horse meat!!
Like all other croquette, it tasted delicious! But you can't really taste the horse meat though.(shame) But still, if you also like harsh brown or fried sweet potato/ potato, you will definitely like it!!
Homepage of this restaurant: http://kumamotobaniku.com/shop.php
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