Kaki furai is a signature dish of Japan; we have verified places to eat it in Hiroshima. Hiroshima oysters crumbed in panko and deep-fried until the coating cracks and the oyster inside is still barely set, served with shredded cabbage and tartare sauce. Start with where to eat Kaki furai in Hiroshima.
Kaki furai · Hiroshima
Hiroshima oysters crumbed in panko and deep-fried until the coating cracks and the oyster inside is still barely set, served with shredded cabbage and tartare sauce.
Fried oysters are a yoshoku dish, part of the Western-influenced cooking that entered Japan from the late nineteenth century, and Hiroshima adopted them wholesale because the raw material was on its doorstep. In the prefecture they are a winter staple rather than a novelty, sold in oyster restaurants, kaki-goya sheds and ordinary teishoku counters between roughly October and March. The local convention is a coarse panko crust and a very short fry, so the oyster keeps its liquor rather than shrinking into the coating.
Where to eat in Hiroshima:
- Kakibune Kanawa
- Kaki Goya Fukuromachi Umihei Shoten
Where to eat Kaki furai in Hiroshima: the editor picks