Let's go out to Iwaki and eat marlins! Unique menus are also appearing more and more! [Fukushima Prefecture]

Hazukii
2017.04.13
Last updated: 2022.02.18

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1 By the way, what is "marlin"?
2 Japanese and Western food as well as sweets! ? This is Iwaki's new marlin!
3 Stay healthy with marlin! It actually contains some amazing ingredients!
- 3.1 Onahama Gourmet Hotel <Information>

Off the coast of Iwaki is a ``sea of tides'' where warm and cold currents meet. It is world famous as a marlin fishing ground. There is also a record that Japan's largest marlin was landed here.

By the way, what is "marlin"?

It is a large, high-speed migratory fish, and there are swordfish, marlins, and black marlins inhabiting the waters of Japan. This is a huge fish that can reach a total length of 1m, and a large species can reach a total length of 4m.

Of course, it is edible and is a familiar fish in Iwaki.

Japanese and Western food as well as sweets! ? This is Iwaki's new marlin!

In Iwaki, a town revitalization project centered around marlin has begun, and you can enjoy dishes using marlin at restaurants in the city, but if you're looking to do some sightseeing as well, head to Onahama first.

Restaurants such as Onahama Gourmet Hotel (although it is called a hotel, it is a complex with restaurants and souvenir shops), Iwakira La Miu, and Aquamarine Fukushima have swordfish inside their Chinese steamed buns. You can enjoy unique marlin menus such as ``Kajikiman'', which is a steamed meat bun, ``Marlin Sauce Katsudon'', ``Marlin Miso Katsudon'', and ``Onahama Marlin Gyoza'', which are topped with a surprisingly large swordfish cutlet.

Among them, the one you should try
is the ``Marlin Menchi'', a minced meat cutlet made with plenty of swordfish meat. You can take out a piece of freshly fried swordfish from the marlin restaurant inside the Onahama Gourmet Hotel.

When you bite into the hot pork cutlet, the inside of the fragrant batter is fluffy and moist. There's no fishy smell, and the flavor of the marlin and the faint sweetness of the onion are combined, making it delicious! It has a strong flavor so you can just leave it as is, or when you pour it in sauce and eat it with cabbage or rice, it's also irresistible.

This makes sense that he was selected as the National Sea-class Gourmet Championship.

And this is the "Swordfish de Pudding" that began on sale at Onahama Gourmet Hotel in April 2017.
This is an original sweet made with marlin, developed by the Marlin Gourmet Executive Committee over five years.

When you hear about sweets made with fish, you may imagine something fishy, but that's just a prejudice.
It has a rich flavor with custard cream in the pudding and caramel-flavored dough, and the dough also uses rice flour from Iwaki Raiki, a Koshihikari rice brand from Iwaki, and is kneaded with swordfish bone meal, so it's a great source of calcium. is.
The price is 200 yen (excluding tax). It can be stored at room temperature, making it perfect as a souvenir.

Stay healthy with marlin! It actually contains some amazing ingredients!

Marlin is low in calories and high in protein, making it very healthy. Also suitable for diet. What's more, it is rich in an ingredient called "imida peptide" that can be expected to have a fatigue recovery effect.

When you visit Iwaki, be sure to enjoy plenty of delicious swordfish!