Basashi (raw horse meat)

[uygurlar]

It is interesting because Mongolian people sometimes eat their horse meat raw too. Did Japanese people learn this tradition from Koreans? Koreans don't eat raw horse meat, but they eat a beef steak tartare kind of dish.

 

[Iron Chef]

I've had this before. Not my cup of tea per se, but it wasn't as bad as I had thought initially.

 

[howabe]

The French are known to eat it aren't they... Personally, I don't really see anything strange in it... it's just meat, probably quite similar to beef I'd imagine...
I suppose the only reason why most civilisations don't eat it is because they found horses much more useful for riding/pulling stuff than for eating...

 

[JaPaN_RoX]

French may eat some, not that much actually, and not raw


And nowadays, i think none really cares about hom a horse can pull stuff in industrialized countries.

 

[howabe]

Yes lol... I meant in the past... and they became accustomed to using them for other purposes than food, and that tradition has stuck till today...

 

[lexico]

Questions Exchange

It is interesting because Mongolian people sometimes eat their horse meat raw too.

Are you talking about the historical Mogols? The dried horse meat fillet carried under the saddle? Or is there a modern practice?

Did Japanese people learn this tradition from Koreans?

Can you tell me what it is called in Japanese?

Koreans don't eat raw horse meat, but they eat a beef steak tartare kind of dish.

Modern Koreans do not eat horse meat, raw or cooked. But since there is an expression, "to eat a whole horse and complain about its stench" to derride at a whiner, Koreans must have eaten horses in the past. But since I know so little about this interesting custom, I do not know if the horse meat was raw.

the word for raw: /SAENG/ from Chinese ﾂ青ｶ, or /NAL/ for raw
the word for horse meat: /MAL-KOGI/, MAL for horse, KOGI for meat.
the horse is also /MOL/ according to the Cheju dialect

Question: Do(did) Uyghurs eat horse meat? Do(did) any people speaking Turkish or a related language eat horse meat? I so what is(was) it called?

Salamharba! Guleh, guleh!
(Is that Turkish or Uyghur? )

 

[GookanGohan]

Hmmm I dunno if they eat it raw do they? Is that sanitary ☝ I know last time I went to Japan my friends there told me about some horse resturaunt or something like that...I was like --->