Japanese restaurants are famous for their appealing dish models designed to attract customers.
Want a proof? Take this! Just impossible to resist! 
For reference: this fish is called guji or amadai. Here’s its description in Japanese Wikipedia. And the restaurant was in Kyoto on Nishinotoin Street. Bon apetit!
If you go to Okinawa from Honshu, chances are you will arrive just for lunch, like I did. There seems to be no better place to get introduced to local cuisine than Makishi market in Naha, just 20 minutes from the airport.
Feeling dizzy with all those glittering colors I chose something different for my first lunch.
It’s not unusual to see a television reportage when Japanese people visiting aquarium, asked for their impression say おいしい (tasty). This time an aquarium itself advertises this way. Fortunately they mention ちょっとグロテスク (a bit grotesque) in the subtitle, probably not to make you disappointed if you keft hungry.
Edit: My distinction between what you admire visually and what you taste got blurred after visting the fish market in Naha, Okinawa.
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えどまえ・東南アジア産・ちょっとグロテスク・おいしい？魚介類たちを紹介します。 |
In Japanese “aquarium” as a tank and aquarium as a public venue are referred to with different words. The tank is called either 水槽 or アクアリウム, while the venue is generally called 水族館 (a museum of “water family”). However different venues might be called. Osaka Aquarium is called for example 海遊館 (a hall of marine entertainment).