Aji fry

Aji: small horse mackerel is inexpensive but tasty fish that people eat often in Japan but it's widely available in Singapore as well.  I made deep fried dish; "Aji fry".

Though I need to fillet the fish the other way around, I needed to open so called "back of the fish" in stead of stomach side.  Because there is a stretch of fin on the top side of fish it needs to be removed in order to eat the whole fish.

There are certain ways to filet the fish in Japanese cuisine and it needed to follow the exact way of doing it to eat the fish with no stress.

「アジフライ」シンガポールでも鯵は安く手に入るが、小ぶりなものばかり。久しぶりにアジフライを作ったが、開き方を間違えた。きれいに開いて背びれもとったが、背開きにしなければ、背びれの下の骨が口にあたる。

ただ、尻びれの内側にも骨はあるので、結局は三枚おろしにした方が一番食べやすいかもしれない。