Hokkaido Day 3 Part 3: Lunch with the locals near Ishisaki Fisheries. The guy who cooked the crab here is also the same guy who did the demonstration to the kids (the day before at the cooking lesson) of how a full cod is cut up into different pieces to eat. He's apparently 73 years old. This was first time actually eating these types of seafood for me. Eating crab was particularly interesting -- it was the first time eating a whole crab for nearly everyone. The old ladies helped us with that. First you tear the body/head in half with your hands and eat the stuff in the head. Eating crab brain was interesting. It tasted like sea water and eggs. Then pick around the main body to push the flesh out. You use the head as your plate as you do this. Finally, you move on to the legs -- what most people are used to -- and pick out the flesh there. Gruesome? Messy? A bit. There was also onigiri and takuon (pickled daikon) along with the seafood. There are a few cats on the premises. It didn't come through the door even with the prompting of the owners, but we saw it looking in multiple times.