A restaurant chef in Shiga Prefecture has developed a cheesecake using an ingredient from funazushi, one of Japan’s pungent traditional sushi types known as narezushi, in an effort to draw more attention to the western region’s local cuisine.
Funazushi uses rice with nigorobuna crucian carp or other fish caught in Shiga Prefecture's Lake Biwa, the country's largest freshwater lake. As the fish and rice are fermented with salt, it has a strong smell.
Girasole, a restaurant in the city of Hikone, has been serving the funazushi-derived Basque-style cheesecake since April 2021.
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