Annually Misawa will hold the Surf Clam Festival in March, its actually a type of clam only available in Misawa and only release for sale (either available supermarkets or restaurants) during winter season (From December to end March). I don't find it particularly tasty or at least to the extend I have to eat before the surf clam season end. However S and my friend loved it. Yuka took me to the festival (never went even though I had stayed more than 3 years in Misawa) and we even went before it started because she had researched and found free tasting of surf clams while stocks last. Pretty shocked to see the long queue even half hour before the festival started. There were 2 queues, 1 for free tasting of surf clams and another was to buy surf clams in bulk (very cheap compared buying in supermarket). The queue to buy surf clams was much longer than our queue, guess mostly locals.
The festival was quite small scaled with most of stalls selling various surf clam products, we finished touring and eating within half hour. It was delicious and I brought some for S since he was working that day. He was quite envious that I could go and told me I "must" buy something for him lol.
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| The grilled surf clams tasted so good! Best I ever eaten so far, |
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| All types of surf clams products: bento, onigiri (rice ball), korokke and even chowder soup! |
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| Many buying the donuts |
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| The actual image of surf clams |
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