{"id":4102,"date":"2017-08-23T23:58:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T03:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/?p=4102"},"modified":"2017-08-24T16:58:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T20:58:06","slug":"an-ika-squid-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/2017\/08\/23\/an-ika-squid-town\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ika (Squid) Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Washoku<\/p>\n<p>The time has finally arrived to tell you all about the tastiest part of my study abroad adventure&#8211;Food! Being from Hawaii, I grew up eating many of the popular foods in Japan. That being said, nothing compares to the amazing food I was able to eat in Japan. Though I would love nothing more than to explicitly explain each dish I ate, for both of our sakes I will focus on the best and the most unique parts of Japanese cuisine.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bebeloveokazu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Sukiyaki-1a.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sukiyaki (http:\/\/bebeloveokazu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Sukiyaki-1a.jpg)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By far, my favorite food is a fairly famous Japanese dish that goes by the name sukiyaki. Sukiyaki is a popular communal dish where we sit around a hot pot to braise beef, tofu, clear noodles and various spices. A delicious and simple dish, Sukiyaki&#8217;s sweet and salty taste will satiate your taste bud every time. Though it is easy to find a Sukiyaki restaurant, in my experience the style made within a home is easily more tasty.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4115 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_6464-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_6464-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_6464-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_6464.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next food, a Hakodate specialty, may be the most interesting food I have tried. This food is so unique even many well travelled Japanese people have never heard of it. Its name, is Ikameshi. Ika(squid) Meshi (cooked rice) is a dish made by cutting the legs off of a squid and stuffing it with cooked rice. From there, it is then braised in a shoyu broth and then cut into slices. Though this wasn&#8217;t the most appetizing or tasty food I have ever had, it is definitely representative of Hakodate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4116\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_6532-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_6532-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_6532-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_6532-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lastly, this last food needs no real explanation. Hakodate being a squid fishing town, there was no way I could leave before I had this famous Hakodate dish. Ika Sashimi. A delicious plate of fresh squid, this delicious food is served with the squid&#8217;s legs still wiggling. Truly an amazing food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washoku The time has finally arrived to tell you all about the tastiest part of my study abroad adventure&#8211;Food! Being from Hawaii, I grew up eating many of the popular foods in Japan. That being said, nothing compares to the amazing food I was able to eat in Japan. Though I would love nothing more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/2017\/08\/23\/an-ika-squid-town\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Ika (Squid) Town<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4120,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions\/4120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}