April 22, 2013
Binita's April web post!
Binita here!
Having been in Japan for two weeks now, I think I'm more or less settled down. The rhythm of school life isn't entirely a foreign one, but some of the food sure is!
I seem to have arrived just in time for the firefly squid season, and my host family entertained Chase and I with their own stories of catching some of these. They're usually deep-sea inhabitants, but they come up in great masses for their spawning season, which is the perfect time to haul in a nice big catch. Bewildered as I was to be eating the squid just as it was, I was reassured that firefly squid is unusual even to the average Japanese.
More information on the firefly squid can be found here!
Cheers!