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title: The Numazu special: nigiri and gunkan sushi
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# The Numazu special: nigiri and gunkan sushi

Cook the local flavors once more　/　Numazu, Shizuoka

Numazu Port is where the fish of Suruga Bay come ashore, with a street of restaurants serving seafood fresh off the boats. With tuna and white fish from the market and Numazu's famous raw whitebait, I put together a Numazu dinner. My first nigiri was not a complete success, but it was great fun and delicious.

## Ingredients

- Sushi rice
- Tuna
- White fish with the skin left on
- Chopped tuna and green onion (negitoro)
- Raw whitebait
- Nori seaweed

## How I made it

1. Press the rice into pieces and top them with white fish and tuna
2. Wrap rice in nori to make gunkan and fill them with negitoro
3. Spoon raw whitebait onto the remaining gunkan

## This moment in the journey: The Numazu special: a good-mood dinner

I carried the plate around the counter, and the Numazu special was ready: nigiri of white fish and tuna, gunkan of negitoro and raw whitebait. The crab miso soup is on the house.

I poured a glass of Ryoma 1865, a non-alcoholic beer, and raised it to the night in Numazu. My first attempt at nigiri was not a complete success, but it was great fun, and delicious.

I bit into the whitebait gunkan and picked apart the grilled horse mackerel with my chopsticks. Numazu, the town of Mt. Fuji and seafood: you get twice the fun at the same time.

![Setting the plate of sushi on the counter](https://karigurashijourney.com/img/numazu-sushi/s90-1200.jpg)
- Sources: https://numazukanko.jp/feature/numazukou-tanoshimikata/top
- Sources: https://www.mlit.go.jp/kankocho/cruise/jp/detail/096/index.html
- Sources: https://www.mapple.net/article/26222/
- Sources: https://tabelog.com/matome/21813/

Read this scene in the full journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/numazu-sushi/