Name: 国産馬肉のバーベキューを試食 (Tasting a Japanese Horse Meat Barbecue)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T09:56:21.000Z
Duration: 7 min 36 s
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So a few years ago there was a big scandal in Europe surrounding horse meat

程度の副詞

when it turned out nearly every meat based dish ever was secretly horse meat

in disguise and ever since then the reputation of horse meat has been

tarnished and even then it's not something we really eat anyway.

Meanwhile in Japan they eat horse meat raw and today we're going to go and try it and

see what it tastes like and unfortunately we are joined by Ryotaro for this trip.

Have you been drinking too much apple juice again?

But anyway I'm going to stuff you up with not only horse but beef and chicken.

And also I'm going to stuff you with garlic.

Today we're visiting two neighbouring towns with two

distinct culinary identities in the far northern region of Aomori.

Gonohe town has been famous for its horses for over a thousand years first as a town

that bred horses for samurai and more recently for its lean juicy cuts of horse.

But before we stuff ourselves with horses we're first dropping in to the

nearby town of Takko. Now Takko town might sound like an exciting upmarket

Mexican restaurant but in fact this rural town is actually Japan's biggest exporter of garlic.

On first glance while passing through Takko you wouldn't know

Well apart from the garlic street lights.

Oh and I guess there's the unique variation on Cola.

You can sense there's a real obsession with garlic in this town

just by looking at the cola which has garlic in it.

Garlic coca-cola; never had that so let's try it. This is my first drink of the day

this is my breakfast as well so you can definitely smell it.

There's a kind of spiciness  to the flavor and the coke that makes it actually quite nice.

Bloody hell who'd have thought garlic and coke actually works.

Since the taste of the garlic is quite mild

normally garlic is used as spices or flavoring

But here you actually can eat the whole thing and you'll actually like it.

One characteristic of Takkos garlic is its high sugar content which means you can

eat entire cloves without setting your mouth on fire.

here is one whole garlic - they grilled it.

How do I do it? So they actually give us a fork so I think we're just gonna dig it.

There is something I need to declare to the world.

Well you have to until we have a 4D video experience.

Again it's mild and stuff but it's really creamy I would say.

If I close my eyes and ate that again it's like eating a jacket potato that's

been mildly flavored with garlic. It has a very silky smooth kind of texture to it.

Take all your preconceptions about garlic and discard them

Okay this is the restaurant in Gonohe town that is famous for the horse meat.

What is their obsession with horses? How did it come about?

they've been eating this horse meat for the last 1,200 years, can you believe that?

So this is a horse meat and we call it "Sakura Niku" in Japanese

So "Basashi" raw horse meat is pretty common throughout Japan.

This isn't. This is actually pretty rare right? Like grilled bbq horse meat.

It's kind of a local specialty to this town so this is my first time to actually have horse meat

that's been grilled like on a barbecue so I don't really know what to expect.

Hmm the key word here is juicy. It's very juicy it tastes a lot like beef.

But unlike Japanese beef which is very fatty this is quite lean. It's juicier than beef

and it's slightly chewier than beef as well but it's a satisfying kind of sugary taste right?

That's really good and apparently it's lower in fat,

Stuffed full of garlic and horses Ryotaro's got one last local dish up his sleeve

to finish me off from nearby Hachinohe city.

I'm absolutely stuffed and yet we've got one more final round to go but I'm not gonna complain.

It's a kind of free-range chicken called shamrock chicken but it's

got the Royal Seal of Approval there are 60 brands of free-range chicken across

Japan and this is the only one that has the royal seal of approval the only one

If it's good for the Emperor it's good for me.

Not sure about that. You're not that Royal.

We'll rename the video to dining with Gollum.

I want that ring? I don't remember that line.

I think if there's one thing to take away from today it is

desert island and I had to take one animal with me that animal would be an

Aomori horse because not only would I be able to ride it around and not only

would it be able to carry my garlic coca-cola around for me but if shit hit