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title: Ichiba Meshi Amatsubo
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journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/kanazawa/
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# Ichiba Meshi Amatsubo

Places we stopped along the way　/　Kanazawa, Ishikawa

Run by Amatsubo, a long-established izakaya founded in 1964, it serves seafood bowls and local dishes such as Kanazawa oden. I ordered a seafood bowl with sweet shrimp, salmon roe and flaked crab, and Kanazawa oden of daikon, kurumafu and akamaki. A sign out front showed its membership in the Kanazawa Oden 50-Year Club of long-standing shops.

38-1 Shimotsutsumicho, Kanazawa, Ishikawa

## This moment in the journey: Kanazawa oden and a local seafood bowl

A shopping street, I think, lets you feel the air of a town on your skin. At a steaming oden stall, the menu also offered grilled oysters and scallops in butter.

For lunch I wanted to enjoy Kanazawa's specialties, so I went into Ichiba Meshi Amatsubo, a restaurant in a corner of the market, and ordered Kanazawa oden and a seafood bowl. The oden came with daikon steeped in broth, kurumafu wheat-gluten rings and akamaki fish cake with its red-and-white swirl. Using local Kanazawa ingredients, and being eaten all year round: those, I was told, are the definitions of Kanazawa oden.

The seafood bowl was made with local fish too: sweet shrimp, salmon roe, flaked crab and white fish on shiso leaves. I drizzled soy sauce over it and poured non-alcoholic beer into a blue cut-glass cup. I felt welcomed by all these dishes made from local ingredients. Thank you, god of fortune.

![A seafood bowl of sweet shrimp, salmon roe and white fish, with miso soup](https://karigurashijourney.com/img/kanazawa/s55-1200.jpg)
- Sources: https://www.mapple.net/original/496027/
- Sources: https://retty.me/restaurant/100001235256/

Read this scene in the full journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/kanazawa/