Just returned from a much needed holiday on the Izu Peninsula, about two hours from Tokyo, located on Japan’s Pacific coast. It’s been years since I spent time by the seaside, which made the whole experience even more enjoyable.
We found a cheap, if slightly run down, minshuku (Japanese bed and breakfast) located on the beach, with a lovely view of the ocean and the soothing sounds of the waves washing on the shore at night. While the place was a little run down it did offer some amazing food - turns out the owner was some expert fish chef, who runs a restaurant which serves fugu (more on that in a minute). We’d signed up for breakfast and dinner and after the first meal on our first night realised that we’d probably made the right choice.
W hat ensued was a four day orgy of fish - as the woman cooked and sliced something like 15 different kinds of fish for our dinner and breakfast. From sushi and sashimi to grilled, cooked and boiled fish. The weirdest part was the breakfast. Since arriving here I’ve been hearing a lot about the wonderful properties and delicious aspects of a traditional Japanese breakfast, which generally consists of fish, rice and miso soup (and I would assume infinite variations using the same core ingredients depending on where you are). I can’t say that it has appealed to me so far, even if where I come from we do eat some weird things for breakfast in the eyes of some people (cooked meat and cheese for starters). Still rice and soup didn’t strike me as the most enticing breakfast ever… I couldn’t have been more wrong.
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