Popular food eaten at taverns, Hokke is cut open and dried, and naturally contains plenty of oil tha
Hokkaido’s hokke commands an overwhelming portion of the Japanese market. During World War II and for some time after, when the distribution technique had not been perfected, people thought hokke had an undesirable flavour. In it’s natural habitat it eats herring’s eggs, and as a result was treated as a pest and became very unpopular. Nowadays though, the delectably soft and crumbly oily fish is recognized as a ‘Flavour of Hokkaido’, with dried hokke and deep fried hokke as standard menu items at taverns throughout Japan.
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