🍱 Sanma no popoyaki

Iwaki City has seven beaches, called "Iwaki Nanahama," and there are many fishing ports around them. A wide variety of fish and shellfish are landed throughout the year, but saury is especially popular in the fall. Many local dishes are prepared using saury, including mirin-boshi (dried fish with mirin broth), grilled fish, and nanbanzuke (pickled saury), but the most commonly eaten dish is "po-po yaki" (grilled saury with pork belly). The most commonly eaten dish is "Po-Po-Yaki," in which saury is minced, rolled up like a hamburger steak, and grilled. It is said that this dish got its name from the fact that when saury is grilled over charcoal, the oil from the saury causes the fire to blaze up into a roaring roar.