🍱 Hikitoshi

This is a typical local dish of Iki, a remote island in Nagasaki Prefecture. In the past, when Iki farmers had guests over for the Bon Festival, New Year's Day, and festivals, they would cook a nabe dish from the tasty chickens they kept at home, and entertain them by pulling them through to a tatami room in the back of the house. This is said to be the origin of the current nabe dish "hikitoshi," and the name is said to have come from the "hikimichi" of those days. In the Iki dialect, "huremae" means "to serve," so hittoshi is sometimes called "huremae ryori" (horemae cuisine).