Gunkan Series 1

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Gunkan or “Mothership” in Japanese is a typically Japanese way of serving ingredients which would be difficult to serve on top of a nigiri.
They are usually made by wrapping a piece of “nori”/dry seaweed around a ball of rice/shari with plenty of space left on top to fill.
Some people do not appreciate the “nori”, but it could be replaced with very thin strips of daikon, cucumber, zucchuni and so on.

Here are some samples of “gunkan” I have eaten over the years:

Ikura/Salmon roe Kani Salada/Crab salad Kanitsume/Crab pincers

Kobashira/Round Clam round twin muscles Mizuna/A Japanese thin leaf vegetable + quail egg Negitoro/finely chopped tuna and thin leeks

Shirako/Whiting-male cod sperm sacs Takuan/Pickled Japanese daikon + cucumber

I hope to introduce more in the near future!