Eye-catching regional sushi will get awesome-looking bento illustrations of video gaming’s martial arts masters.
Sushi will at all times seize the eye of Japanese meals followers, however kakinoha sushi is very eye-catching. A regional model of sushi significantly common in Nara Prefecture, kakinoha sushi is a sort of pressed sushi during which the items are wrapped in persimmon leaves (kakinoha in Japanese). Connoisseurs say that the tannins and aroma of the leaves transfers to the fish and closely vinegared rice wrapped inside, giving them an additional contact of flavorful complexity.
You’re not imagined to eat the leaf, so it additionally serves as an elegantly rustic container for the sushi inside. However now Izasa Nakatanihonpo, a maker of kakinoha sushi within the Nara city of Yoshino, is including one other degree of cool aesthetics to the dish with the discharge of Road Fighter kakinoha sushi bento boxed lunches.
Every Road Fighter Kakinoha Sushi set comes with seven items of sushi inside, two every of saba (mackerel), sake (salmon), and tai (sea bream), and certainly one of aji (horse mackerel).
A complete of 4 completely different designs are within the lineup, beginning with, naturally, Ryu, the general protagonist of online game developer Capcom’s landmark combating collection.
Since Nara is known for its herds of untamed deer that roam freely by Nara Park, the road fighters are accompanied by a number of of the animals on their bento field lid. Every bit of art work additionally has a seasonal motif, with Ryu representing spring as he sits beneath a cherry blossom tree evocative of his Road Fighter 6 stage.
Summer season belongs to E. Honda, taking within the sights of a fireworks pageant from a pleasure boat and proving he likes meals apart from chanko nabe scorching pot.
For autumn, Chun-Li sits beneath a chic conventional paper umbrella because the leaves change colours and fall…
…and for winter, down-on-his-luck Ken will get to deal with himself to a break at a heated and blanketed kotatsu desk, with a basket of mikan oranges for dessert and a few road fighter snowmen exterior.
Along with filling them up with different meals to reuse for boxed lunches, the containers additionally work properly as general-purpose storage containers when you’ve eaten the included batch of sushi, measuring 15 by 13.5 centimeters (5.9 by 5.3 centimeters).
And as an added bonus, every Road Fighter Kakinoha Sushi bento additionally comes with a publish card of its respective art work, which you’ll be able to both ship to a fellow fan or hold for your self and use like a mini poster.
The Road Fighter Kakinoha Sushi bento are on sale now for 1,680 yen (US$12) and could be bought right here by the Izasa Nakatanihonpo on-line store.
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