A specialty of the Watari area of Miyagi Prefecture: “Hokkimeshi” is rice cooked with seasoned ingredients and topped with surf clams.
ほっき飯「”Hokki rice”(Hokki meshi)」surf clam
・A specialty bowl of rice from the Watari-cho area of Watari-gun, Miyagi Prefecture.
Hokkimeshi is a bowl of Cooked rice topped with plenty of surf clams.
One of the best parts of making surf clam rice is cooking rice in the broth from the surf clams.
Many households make this type of mixed rice, in which the broth from the surf clams is mixed into cooked rice.
The Watari Town area is one of the leading surf clam producing areas in Japan, and the season for surf clams is limited to December to April.
The surf clams from Watari Town live in sandy areas, so their meat is softer than those from other prefectures.
The surf clam producing area is in the southern part of Miyagi Prefecture, which is also a rice producing area, so it is thought that the culture of eating surf clam rice was born there.
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(Hokki meshi / Surf clam rice)
＜Professor Nishikawa Masazumi, Food Management Department, School of Food Industrial Sciences, Miyagi University＞
It is believed that surf Hokki meshi has been eaten since the Meiji period.
The surf clam producing area is in the southern part of Miyagi Prefecture, which is also a rice producing area, so it is thought that the culture of eating surf clam rice was born there.
However, after the Great East Japan Earthquake, surf clams could not be harvested for about three years.
Now they have made a considerable comeback.
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