Hello!
I have a passion for namari. (Katsuo namaribushi / なまり節). Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like I can get it here in the UK and I forgot to bring it back with me from my Japan trip this year.
Does anyone know how I can successfully get it shipped to me in London UK? Either from a Japanese online retailer or by requesting through a UK market?
Thank you so much in advance!
by Bunlover94
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Not 100% sure if it’s the same thing (not too confident with the intricacies of Japanese food) but if it’s the same fish as katsuobushi/bonito flakes, I had success ordering some from Japan using eBay.
Marumitsu Seafood Namari-bushi.
This is a type of processed bonito (skipjack tuna) from Makurazaki, Kagoshima Prefecture.
You might have to make it! You can make it with bonito, which I think is more common in Europe than katsuo (bonito is not katsuo, though it’s usually translated that way, but they’re similar). [This](https://tennenseikatsu.jp/_ct/17340246) is a simplified recipe (in Japanese, you can use machine translation), and [this](https://www.kobayashi-foods.co.jp/washoku-no-umami/namaribushi) is a more complex but authentic recipe.