English Menu

Welcome to our restaurant, Fuku-shin. We have been a Fugu & Hamo specialty restaurant
since we started in 1959. Our policy has been we offer food & drinks which we judge only
the finest. And thanks to being patronized by so many guests,
we have been here untiltoday.
The name of us is Fuku-shin, not Fugu-shin. The reason why we don’t avoid the voiced
consonant is, because we follow the way that inhabitants/fishermen, who live in
Shimonoseki, the westernmost city of Honshu Island, pronounce. Fugu fishes we serve here
are from Shimonoseki, therefore we follow them to do so.
People in Shimonoseki call it FUKU. Why people in Shimonoseki avoid calling the fish
FUGU is its sound is inauspicious. Because one of the homophone word, FUGŪ（不遇）
means “misfortune” in Japanese language! On the contrary, a word without voiced
consonant FUKU（福） means “happiness” and people in Shimonoseki take that way.
Very fresh (in Japanese language, fresh = shin) fishes are only offered here and we are the
specialist of not Fugu but Fuku. So the name has come from these meanings.
Anyway, we would like you to have a good time here with us. Enjoy!

Choose from 3 courses of A, B or C.
Starter, Tessa (Fugu sashimi), rice porridge and dessert are all served and
they are completely the same amount and quality at any course you choose.
The difference between the course A, B and C is the
number of pieces of Fugumeat served.

(Reservation is required by the previous day)
Choose from 2 courses of “Regular” or “Small”.
The difference is only quantity. “Small” is
two thirds of “Regular”. Contents are completely the same

• Hamo “Regular” Course Meal ¥8,250- pp (Tax inc.)
• Hamo “Small” Course Meal¥5,500- pp (Tax inc.)

Starter (Hamo Chu-ru-rin)

Boiled Hamo meat on gelatin noodles served with soup of mixing ponzu (a seasoning made from citrus juice) with dashi (soup stock made from bonito & kelp).

Hamo Otoshi

Hamo meat (boiled, then soaked in iced water) served with plum sauce.
Hamo Shimo-Zukuri

Hamo sashimi with its skin (skin only seared very lightly, meat remains raw) Hamo Kushi Sumi-bi Yaki

Charcoal-grilled Hamo meat on a forked skewer served with condiment paste made from green pepper & yuzu (citrus junos) zest.

Hamo Tempura

Contains deep-fried Hamo meat, sweet pepper & soft yuba (beancurd skin) and served with special tempura sauce & salt.

Hamo Shabu-shabu

Contains raw Hamo meat, soft yuba (beancurd skin), Japanese honeywort & winter mushroom and served with ponzu, grated radish & chopped leek.

The way of eating is, first, raw Hamo meat is picked by chopsticks and soaked into the pot, then keep holding it and swing it twice or three times. When the meat becomes like a flower, it is time to pull up and dip in ponzu, grated radish & chopped leek and have it.

Rice porridge

After completing Shabu-shabu, rice is added to the Shabu-shabu pot and rice porridge is cooked with egg, chopped leek and laver. It is seasoned with salt & light soy source.

Dessert

Seasonal fruit

• á la carte

  Yu-biki (Teppi, boiled & Sliced Fugu’s skin)

  Small¥1,100-
  Medium¥2,200-
  Large¥3,300-

  Tessa (Fugu’s sashimi)

  ¥6,050-

  Sumi-bi Shio-yaki (6 pieces of charcoal-grilled Fugu)

  ¥6,600-

  Kara-age (6 pieces of fried Fugu)

  ¥6,600-

  Tecchiri (6 piece of boiled Fugu)

  ¥6,050-

  Option: Zosui (Rice porridge cooked in the Tecchiri pot)

  ¥990-

  Zosui (Rice porridge with Chinese cabbage & mushroom)

  ¥1,870-

• Beverages

  Hire-sake (hot sake with grilled Fugu fins) -The fins of the fish are dried out completely, baked, and served in hot sake

  ¥880-

  Sake [Ozeki] Served Heated or room temperature

  ¥770-

  Cold Sake [Ozeki Daiginjo]

  ¥1,100-

  Beer

  Asahi¥730-
  Kirin¥730-
  Ebisu¥730-

  Shochu (Distilled spirits)
  Select from Mugi (Barley) or Imo (Sweet potato)

  Served with water/hot water¥450-
  Served with ice ¥550-

  Umeshu (Plum wine, served with ice)

  ¥550-

  Oolong Tea

  ¥220-

Fugu (Pufferfish/Globefish/blowfish) is a whitefish and famous for a prized and healthy food. It contains high-protein, low-fat and rich in collagen. However,
Fugu, such good food, has poison (tetrodotoxin) like no rose without a thorn.
To handle Fugu’s poison is not easy because depending on the type of Fugu,
site of poison is different.
Which parts are poisonous in Fugu? See the example below.