Sushi breakfasts for tourists who flock to Tsukiji will be a thing of the past as the citys seafood paradise shiftsThe thousands of wholesalers who sustain Tsukiji fish market running day and night have been at work for several hours when it starts filling up with weekend shoppers and tourists interested to sample the final Tokyo culinary experience – a sushi breakfast.
Long lines form outside restaurants as traders whizz past on small trucks laden with boxes of every type of seafood imaginable: huge slabs of tuna,hunks of whale bacon, octopuses, and scallops and sea squirts. whether it lives in the sea and is edible,there is every chance it can be found among the hundreds of stalls at the world’s biggest fish market and the sprawling nerve centre of a multimillion-dollar commercial operation. Related: Japan urges overworked employees to take Monday mornings off Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com