Originally Posted by
Sanosuke
Miso soup is my tradition whenever I have a Japanese meal.. always have it before the entree arrives.
Theres just no other way I'd have it. Except for maybe mjm's special mabodofu outings!
Oh I just remembered. When I had Miso soup at the Ueno station one year I put my long chopsticks in the bowl only to be nearly freightened when theres a prawn's eye and head bobbing out at the surface peering me in the eye as if to say "Don't eat me, I'm salty!" I just took it out as calmly as I could and continued to enjoy the miso soup minus the prawn heads... *laughs* Such a scary day that it was but I had the sushi bar as well!
Sanosuke!
That actually sounds rather good.
The stuff inside a prawn's head (and inside a lobster's, crab's and similar) is often called 'miso' also. But 'nou miso' apparantly has a wider meaning than just
this. What I'm learning now is that, in the 80s at least, when raw it was often topped with mullet.