Today I take a walk through the traditional food market in Japan called Tanga Market. Unfortunately, I went on the only day of the week in which it is closed. Although the shops were closed, it has a unique atmosphere about it. I will definitely go here again and hope you enjoy this walk.
Tanga Ichiba, offers a rare opportunity to visit a traditional Japanese market and experience the sounds, sights, smells, and tastes of a Japan that is fast disappearing.
History:
Tanga Market runs alongside a tributary of the Murasaki River, and its origin is believed to be when boats moored here and sold goods directly from the boats about 100 years ago.
Then as now fresh vegetables and fruit were sold to local people. If you are wanting to pick up some fresh fruit, it's a great place to find cheap and fresh produce not wrapped in layers and layers of plastic like most supermarkets nowadays.
There are several butchers in the market where you can buy meats that are hard to find in most supermarket meat departments, but by far the product most available in the market is seafood.
Seafood:
There are about 20 stalls and shops offering a wide variety of fresh fish in all shapes and sizes, including a couple that specialize in whale meat. The whaling fleet that conducts "research" in the waters of the Antarctic is based in nearby Shimonoseki. A dazzling array of shellfish is also on offer as well as mentaiko, a spicy roe, and fugu, the poisonous blowfish.
If you want to pick up some cooked or prepared food then once again you have plenty of delicious options. Some stalls sell fresh, hand-made bento (Japanese box lunch), at others you can pick up karage (Japanese style fried chicken), kamaboko ( a type of paste or sausage made from various types of fish), egg-rolls, kurokke (croquettes with various fillings), or even ice-cream made from goats milk, but by far the most well known local specialty is nukamisodaki.
Nukamisodaki:
With a distinctive aroma and apparently quite delicious, nukamisodaki is fish, usually sardine, pilchard, or mackerel, pickled in fermented rice bran and miso. It is a Kitakyushu delicacy and even has its own mascot, Nukamura-kun, who travels the country promoting it.
Restaurants:
Finally, there are numerous eateries in the market, most offering extremely good value meals from fresh ingredients, and most so small as to fit the description "hole in the wall". Obviously there are seafood restaurants, a couple of noodle places, sushi, even a Jingusikan joint ( barbecued mutton, named after Genghis Khan), but the signature eatery in Tanga Market is Daigakudo.
Daigakudo:
With an interior that reflects the retro Show-era of the rest of the market, Daigakudo is operated by students and offers a variety of cheap meals including soup for 100 yen, but the most famous is the donburi where you buy a simple bowl of rice, starting at 100 yen, and then take it out of the restaurant and wander the market buying different items to put on top.
Activity at the market starts fairly early and some stalls are open for people to pick up their lunch on the way to work, and some places stay open till quite late, but the busiest times are from 10 am to 5 pm.
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