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The story
A photo of a meal posted on social media by Hello! Project member Sato Ma-chan became a hot topic on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. The seafood was piled so high it looked ready to spill out of the bowl, sparking a debate over whether it was actually a seafood rice bowl or a seafood hot pot. Using clues from the photo, posters in the thread tracked it down to a shop inside Kanazawa Station, even nailing the menu item’s name and price. It’s believed to have been a meal eaten before heading back to Tokyo after an event appearance in Ishikawa, and the thread also touched on her travel itinerary and her fondness for the prefecture.
What people said
The seafood rice bowl and "metta-jiru" soup from the Rinto branch of Uogashi Shokudo at Kanazawa Station
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A big, bursting "Sea of Japan" seafood bowl, 3,200 yen, I think?
The ID squad is amazing.
That nodoguro (blackthroat seaperch) looks delicious.
Isn't this from Sunday night, right after the event ended? She stayed overnight in Kanazawa because she had a live local TV appearance on Monday.
The "she was still there" guy — still there.
Seafood bowls overflowing out of the bowl is a pretty common thing at Kanazawa restaurants.
poor thing.
She'd been saying for a while that she wanted to do an event in Ishikawa, so this was basically a dream come true for her.
Takamatsu was just tacked onto the Music Station schedule, but Ishikawa is somewhere she'd been saying for years she wanted to do a release event.
She's probably scarfing it down fast so she can jump on the bullet train.
maybe I'll just ask mom to make it.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Hello! Project members often post about eating local specialties on social media after regional events, and this photo looks to be one more example. What split the thread was whether it showed a “rice bowl” or a “hot pot” — in Kanazawa, seafood rice bowls are sometimes served alongside “metta-jiru,” a clear soup made with fish bones and fish balls, and because of the camera angle, the soup bowl and the rice bowl appeared to overlap in the photo, making them hard to tell apart. 5ch has a culture of “identification squads” who use backgrounds and signage in photos to pin down locations, and this time they managed to identify both the restaurant’s name and its location. The 3,200 yen price that came up isn’t especially steep for a tourist-oriented seafood rice bowl sold inside a train station.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “Is what Sato Ma-chan is eating a seafood rice bowl or a seafood hot pot?“.
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