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You can get raw horse meat at many restsurants in Japan. It's fairly common. In fact here's a search for places using the term 馬刺 [basashi] (馬=horse, 刺=from sa

You can get raw horse meat at many restsurants in Japan. It's fairly common. In fact here's a search for places using the term 馬刺 [basashi] (馬=horse, 刺=from sashimi Lots of places come up specializing in it http://s.tabelog.com/smartphone/restaurant_list/list/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&sa=&sk=%E9%A6%AC%E5%88%BA&SrtT=trend&svd=20160208&svt=1900&svps=2&area_datatype=&area_id=&keyword_datatype=&keyword_id=&tid=&ifr=true http://s.tabelog.com/smartphone/restaurant_list/list/?utf8=%...

melted 11y ago
Yeah, I was kind of taken aback by raw horse meat sushi in a conveyor belt sushi place in Kyoto. Couldn't work up the courage to try it.
- mikekchar 11y ago
  If you go back to Japan, I highly recommend trying it. It is one of my favourite foods. Horse meat has a nicer flavour than beef, and especially eaten raw it is amazing. Unfortunately horse meat is quite rare where I live (Shizuoka prefecture), so I only usually get to eat it when I'm travelling. I often wonder where the meat comes from though. Do they use young horses, or old, for instance? Also, the basashi I've had seems like it might be the tenderloin (it is very tender), so I wonder what happens to the rest of the animal. I'd very happily use it in stews if I could get it.
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contingencies 11y ago
In China the most popular is donkey meat, or 驴肉 (lvrou, pronounced lew-row*). For those who don't study characters, the left-hand part of 驴 is 马 ( horse), which is the simplified form of the traditional character 馬 which is what the Japanese are still using, and has a reconstructed proto Sino-Caucasian root.[0] It's all over China but more popular perhaps in the north, Shandong and northern Jiangsu in the east to Xinjiang in the west. Of course part of this culinary capacity descends from earlier nomadic and steppe peoples. You can also try Mongol horse milk alcohol, which is now available right across China in bottled form. I think it's fair to say that in the past, most people ate most meat, as long as it was fresh and there were no local taboos. I haven't read any studies but for bacterial reasons I suppose that raw consumption correlates with cold climates. 0. http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fdata%2fsinocauc%2fsccet&text_number=+665&root=config http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basen...
- cr1895 11y ago
  Speaking of which: http://luckypeach.com/atlas/northern-courtyard-restaurant/ http://luckypeach.com/atlas/northern-courtyard-restaurant/ Chinese donkey meat sandwich. Looks pretty tasty.
Riod 11y ago
Oh yes. Best sashimi I've had was horse sashimi in Asakusa. This family has been running this restaurant since the late 1800s. http://www.luxeat.com/blog/miyako-sushi-3-michelin-quality-minus-3-michelin-stars/ http://www.luxeat.com/blog/miyako-sushi-3-michelin-quality-m...

melted 11y ago

Yeah, I was kind of taken aback by raw horse meat sushi in a conveyor belt sushi place in Kyoto. Couldn't work up the courage to try it.

mikekchar 11y ago
If you go back to Japan, I highly recommend trying it. It is one of my favourite foods. Horse meat has a nicer flavour than beef, and especially eaten raw it is amazing. Unfortunately horse meat is quite rare where I live (Shizuoka prefecture), so I only usually get to eat it when I'm travelling. I often wonder where the meat comes from though. Do they use young horses, or old, for instance? Also, the basashi I've had seems like it might be the tenderloin (it is very tender), so I wonder what happens to the rest of the animal. I'd very happily use it in stews if I could get it.
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contingencies 11y ago

In China the most popular is donkey meat, or 驴肉 (lvrou, pronounced lew-row*). For those who don't study characters, the left-hand part of 驴 is 马 ( horse), which is the simplified form of the traditional character 馬 which is what the Japanese are still using, and has a reconstructed proto Sino-Caucasian root.[0] It's all over China but more popular perhaps in the north, Shandong and northern Jiangsu in the east to Xinjiang in the west. Of course part of this culinary capacity descends from earlier nomadic and steppe peoples. You can also try Mongol horse milk alcohol, which is now available right across China in bottled form. I think it's fair to say that in the past, most people ate most meat, as long as it was fresh and there were no local taboos. I haven't read any studies but for bacterial reasons I suppose that raw consumption correlates with cold climates. 0. http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fdata%2fsinocauc%2fsccet&text_number=+665&root=config http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basen...

cr1895 11y ago
Speaking of which: http://luckypeach.com/atlas/northern-courtyard-restaurant/ http://luckypeach.com/atlas/northern-courtyard-restaurant/ Chinese donkey meat sandwich. Looks pretty tasty.

Riod 11y ago

Oh yes. Best sashimi I've had was horse sashimi in Asakusa. This family has been running this restaurant since the late 1800s. http://www.luxeat.com/blog/miyako-sushi-3-michelin-quality-minus-3-michelin-stars/ http://www.luxeat.com/blog/miyako-sushi-3-michelin-quality-m...