funazushi
Sign in to savethumb|300px| Funazushi cut into bite-sized pieces and served on a dish, Maibara, Shiga. What appears white is lactic acid fermented rice. The orange color is the egg.
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thumb|300px| Funazushi cut into bite-sized pieces and served on a dish, Maibara, Shiga. What appears white is lactic acid fermented rice. The orange color is the egg.
Funazushi is a type of nare-zushi, an ancient Japanese type of sushi. It is a local dish of Shiga Prefecture (formerly Ōmi Province), where it has been made since ancient times using Lake Biwa's nigorobuna (Carassius auratus grandoculis) and other fish as the main ingredients.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “funazushi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.