Chirashi zushi/散らし寿司 means “decoration sushi” in Japanese!
It is a free form of sushi very popular at homes!
We received this magnificent crab directly from Hokkaido!
Its name, Hanasakgani/花咲蟹 means “Flower Blooming Crab”!
This is probably due tp its many spikes!
We received pre-boiled although the original color is almost the same!
The Dragon had a hard time to prepare it as the shell is hard. I did propose to help her but she refused!
This crab can be found only in the North Pacicific around Hokkaido, The Behring Sea and the Sakhalin.
It does not have a specila English name and goes by the Latin name of Paralithodes brevipes.
It is considered as one of the top three crabs (at least in Hokkaido) with the Kegani/Horsehair Crab and the Tarabagani/Red King CRab! It is expensive but we recived it as an End of the Year present!
The meat out of its shell!
The Dragon prepared a chirashi sushi served in the traditional round wood bowl for 4 of us, but we couldn’t finish and had more for the next breakfast!
The Dragon first prepare the sushi rice inside the wooden bowl.
She had mixed the rice with some golden sesame seeds before adding roughly shredded hanaski crab meat and chopped fresh mizuna herbs.
As this is the New Year, she also added plenty of ikura/salmon re!
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This looks wonderful. It definitely looks like something I would really enjoy eating. I just love crab meat!
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Mind you this was a present!
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I understand. We have a local grocery chain that frequent carries cooked Dungeness crabs, cooked. One is enough which is good because it is a little pricey but I’m not much of a beef eater so sometimes, we splurge. I’ll try this with one of those.
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Actually we received this crab plus another and extravagant prawns as personal thanks because the Dragon makes enormous orders of them all year round on behalf of her boss who gives them out as end of the year presents to his clients!
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