🍱 Sangayaki

In the area around the Boso Peninsula, horse mackerel, sardines, and Pacific saury catches have been abundant since ancient times."Namero" was the most convenient way for fishermen to prepare dishes from fresh fish on their unstable boats, as they only need to finely chop them together with miso. It turned out that the dish was so delicious that people couldn't help licking their plate clean, leading to "the name namero", which means to lick. When fishermen went to work in the mountains, they would carry "namero "in abalone shells and cook it by steaming or grilling it in their mountain huts. In the old Chiba dialect, the word for "house" is pronounced as "ga" in some cases. So, this dish came to be called" Sangayaki" (where san means mountain, ga means house or hut, and yaki means grill).