Crab Delicacy at "Kani Doraku" -かに道楽-

I had a chance to enjoy "Crab" delicacy while I was back in Tokyo last time.
Crab is also considered as winter delicacies, like "Fugu" -blowfish-.

Their signature dish is "Kani suki" -crab hot pot, Eye-catching moving crab on the wall


"Kani Doraku" is a very famous restaurant, specialized in crab. In 50 years of history, the company built over 40 restaurants all over the Japan.

There are many specialized restaurants in Japan. Specialized in sushi, tempura, skewered grill, soba noodles, grilled eel, pork cutlet, etc... Not like Japanese restaurants outside of Japan.
Usually, sushi restaurants in Japan don't sell skewered grill, or tempura restaurants don't sell pork cutlet...

Crabs everywhere! chop sticks, ash tray, stone ornament, cushion, painting...

Poached snow crab with vinegar, crab sashimi with wasabi and soy sauce 

Deep fried crab meat croquette, steamed rice with crab served with savory broth for "Chazuke"

 

Signature "Kani Suki" -crab hot pot, Crab shaped pot & carrot!!

 You can enjoy the hot pot first and rice soup after

Cup with crab logo for shells, Lantern with letters of "Doraku"-diversion-, Entrance of the restaurant

Blowfish "Fugu" -河豚-

Blowfish (or Pufferfish) is known as poisonous fish. It's liver, skin, eyes (and some other parts) are highly toxic. But, it is also known as one of the winter delicacies in Japan.

Live "Fugu" in a fish tank in front of the restaurant (left),
"Hire sake" -dried blowfish fins in a cup of hot sake- warms you up in winter time (right) 

Because of it's deadly poison, Fugu is also called "Teppo" in Japanese, means a gun -if you are hit, you will be dead-.
It needs to be carefully prepared by licensed chefs. In Japan, almost every year, we see one or two (or even more!) cases on the headlines say "a man who prepared and ate fugu by himself died from fugu poisoning..."

Poached "Fugu" skins with chopped onions in ponzu -citrus- sauce (left),
"Tessa" -thinly sliced fugu sashimi with ponzu sauce(right)

Fugu, specially "Torafugu", is considered to be luxurious food.
It was not common, ordinary people's food till farming technologies and delivery system (fish tank car) got improved in past few decades.




Deep fried fugu meat, Charcoal grilled marinated fugu meat in special soy sauce

"Tecchiri" (or "Fugu-chiri") -fugu hot pot, and "zosui" -rice soup- at the end of the hot pot