As anyone who has taken the patrick.com Japan Food Tour can attest, fried things on sticks are an integral part of Japanese cuisine.
This cusine, known as kushiage (literally, fried things on sticks) or kushikatsu (fried pork cutlet on a stick), comes from the Kansai area of Japan and is artery-cloggingly good. But, then again, I guess almost anything skewered, dipped in egg batter, rolled in bread crumbs and deep fried tastes delicious.
Having been left to my own devices for dinner, I went out for kushiage this evening. It’s far more fun with friends, I must say, but I still enjoyed the meal.
The place that I went to, kushinobo, is a chain that has outlets all around Japan. The chef cooks up various fried things on sticks for you, you eat them and then stuff the sticks into the mouth of a ceramic fish.
I took a picture of my fish after I was done eating. This was a fairly lackluster performance. Typically the fish gets emptied once and still ends up looking like this.
