w00kie's ramblings » food http://w00kie.com making compressors in Japan Sat, 28 Aug 2010 07:47:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Hiroshima-ben senbei http://w00kie.com/2008/03/23/hiroshima-ben-senbei/ http://w00kie.com/2008/03/23/hiroshima-ben-senbei/#comments Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:48:08 +0000 w00kie http://w00kie.com/2008/03/23/hiroshima-ben-senbei/ 2 weeks ago I went to Hiroshima for the weekend with my girlfriend. We had dinner (and innumerable drinks) with a friend of hers on Saturday night in the 本通 area at what must be the restaurant with the most perfect レバー焼き鳥 I've ever tasted.

Anyways, I received as omiyage the following which made me laugh a lot:

hiroshima-ben senbei

It's a set of senbei rice-crackers inscribed with examples of 広島弁, the local Hiroshima dialect. Whenever we're in Hiroshima, my girlfriend reverts to her roots and drops the Tokyo accent she acquired, especially when she's with her high-school friends. I'm usually totally lost...

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鮎塩焼き - ayu shio yaki

They are little fresh-water fish, stuck on a skewer, dipped in salt and fried around a fire. You eat the whole thing, except the head, bones and scales included.

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