fish

I just got back from the fish market in Tokyo. Whoa. Biggest fish market in Asia. It gets going at five in the morning and runs until ten – we left at six. It was nothing short of remarkable. So many fish! I didn’t really realize how big tuna are. They had huge knives to cut through the tuna and the other big fish (I saw whale, it looked like meat) and the fish were stuffed with ice. The tuna meat was so beautiful.
Grossest thing: the eels with their heads partially cut (lots of fish were like this) and floating in their own blood – coupled with the eel that we saw it’s head get stabbed and stripped of skin. That was disgusting.

The market was crazy busy: carts flying everywhere willing to run you over, fish being cut, buckets and buckets of dead + alive fish (I saw an alive octopus and the biggest crab I have ever seen – three feet from one side to another).

Wearing flip flops was probably not the best choice (they were throwing fish guts+blood all over the ground, but there were lots of hoses running to wash it away) and we got some laughs at our feet.

On the street side of the market there were tiny restaurants with people lined up outside waiting to eat fresh sushi.

One of the coolest things I’ve done here.