Here is Akitsu city in Hiroshima.
I lived in Hiroshima until I got married,but I know the name this town and had not dropped in once.
My mother said, ''these days, the potato from this Akitsu is delicious, in the food floor of the department store, it is sold at reputation at "the splendid good price."''
There is a warehouse which stocks the just-harvested potatoes and they sell various potatoes on the opposite side street.
This potato's name is ''Maruaka'', a specialty of Akitsu.
I bought a lots of this potato, and cooked at the home, it was very very delicious!!!
The view from coastal.↑↑↑
There is the small islands and small bay in Setonaikai (Seto Inland Sea) that are visible to the other side.
Another local specialty of Akitsu is an oyster.
According to my mother again, also in Hiroshima, the oyster of this Akitsu is delicious and became famous now.
Hiroshima is a producing district of an oyster famous in Japan.
I was growing up with oyster in winter season when I was kid!
By the earthquake disaster on March 11, when the aquafarm of a northeastern oyster was destroyed, I heard the news that the aquaculture company of the oyster of Hiroshima offered various support.
Surely, also when the oyster bed in Brittany in France suffered damage, didn't the backer carry out from Hiroshima?
Also in the oyster place of production in such Hiroshima, here Akitsu is a place which can take a delicious oyster especially.
at the house of oyster trader,they are selling at retail oysters,we visited there.
Actually, here is not shop the contractor who cultivates an oyster and ships it.
Therefore, when buy it directly here, it turned out that it is extremely cheap.
Although the oyster was current price, the price of the big oyster with husks at this time was 90 yen(US$120) per piece.
This price is the cheapest in the local, I think.because If I buy an oyster at the Hamamatsu city in Shizuoka prefecture, probably it costs 300 yen per piece.
I bought 30 pieces!!!! It brought from the back beach and put into the box.
I wanted buy more but the oyster with husks should eat early,so 30 pieces are enough for our family.
In Japan, except the producing district of an oyster,is circulating shelled oysters.
Therefore, they seems to be busy with remove the husks of an oyster.
The oyster which turned and was used as the shelled is divided and sold for each size.
Japanese style cook with oyster, for example make it into deep-fried dishes, stir-fry it with vegetables,cook with pasta or it makes it into one-pot dishes.
I could feel having came back to Hiroshima when I ate delicious oysters soooo many!!!
