Nankotsu

I don't think I could find cartilages tasty. I consider cartilages as something that is not meant to be eaten.

Looks awesome. Never really thought anybody paid any attention to that part of chicken...

My family calls it "soft-bone" :D

Does it taste crunchy overall? I think my mom likes to make it in different style where she fries it first and then cook it in a stew type thing, it becomes jelly like when she's done ^^;

You'd be surprised at what things that just by deep-frying can be made edible or even tasty. But then again, its really just the grease and the spices you are tasting.

What part of the chicken is cartilage? Is it wing tips, feet or what?

Love it, used to have it lots back in Hong Kong ^^. There is none in the UK though (unless you go to some Oriental place), sometimes I really miss living in Hong Kong because of the lovely food they have there ><.

This is the first I've heard of anyone eating it, and I just couldn't eat that part. Scary.

that looks really really good, but reading "cartilage" makes me lose my appetite.

Argh. I personally can't stand these. I don't know what it is...but the cartilage slipping about between my teeth just...*shudder*...

I'll pick Rin instead :p

Is the texture simillar to that of beef cartilage?

I remember when i first ate it, i tooke the bone and SNAP! - "WTF there's jelly inside?!?!"

i used to eat some tiny pieces of cartilage in the chicken tikka. spicy and crunchy. haven't tasted fried cartilages though.

Cartilage! That makes me think of ears and noses.
Look's surprisingly yummy though ^_^

Ohhh those things are delicious! And not only chickens have it. They are really really yummy~

We have it here in asian restaurants but never particularly enjoyed it.

Yummy =p

looks delicious !!

Me Chicken person... Gimme Tori Kara Age! :3

good source of calcium? ;P

i only started having them at izakaya, and izakaya over here have them too but not such good quality
goes really bad tasting when it gets cold

we do have this Danny, indeed very delicious plus its super awesome crunchy~~~~

It was the same for me. I used to have impression that cartilage is one of the thing that you should not eat. It changed after having some yummy nankotsu.

I still can't be bothered to eat nankotsu. It doesn't feel like food to me. I might stick one of these in my mouth (the outside is tasty) but still throw the nankotsu out when I'm done.

Cartilage is part of a group of foods that taste OK but are gross because of the texture, together with Tako, Surume Ika and (in a totally different way) Nattou.

Delicious.

Chicken Chips is the best but watch your health!!! Chicken chips is like pork chips. I taste good. Once you eat it, your hook! Try it.

I've always eaten the cartilage. Childhood teachings are hard to lose. Cartilage has been touted to be nutritional in some way. ^^;;

Never tried nankotsu though. x)

i don't if its the same but where i'm from we have something called "chuleta" which fits the image and description, although a little bit larger. I think it can be made from chicken or pork... We also put some lemon to it and it tastes great! aaa now i want some XD

Mmm never eaten chick cartilage, don't think I will anytime soon either.

O__O I don't really like the idea of eating cartilages, but who knows? I might just be converted. They look like wedges :D

Ugh, not these...*curses gap in teeth*

I love the cartilage whether it's done in this way or just normal soy sauce chicken I'll chew on the cruncy bits and swallow them all. Too bad it can't help to regenerate the cartilage within us cos I sure need some from the wear and tear...

I think the Japanese restaurant here also serve this dish~~~~

It taste great! LOL

Never heard of this dish before O.O Don't think I'd like it though.

I love nankotsu! It's always the first thing I order at an izakaya, great snack while drinking and yeah, never had it before till I went to Japan.

Deep fry anything and I bet it will taste good, mother in-laws are the exception though.

Hmmm, sounds like fried fish fins and fish bones one can find in Chinese restaurants. This sounds like it might taste better???

I had it with my host family at a yakitori restaurant. I had no idea what I was eating until afterward, but it didn't bother me and it was still delicious.

It's ok, but not my first choice.

been eating animal cartilages, except fish, ever since I was a lad. My parents are really into animal organs n such, though its not healthy for the body they don't really care. Never tried fried cartilages though.

Yep, we barbecue it around here.

"deep dried chicken cartilage"? You meant deep fried right? hehe

I think eating chicken cartilage is a cultural thing. I learned as a kid not to eat it and toss it away like fat and bones and other things you don't eat from your meat. My boyfriend, who's vietnamese, was taught from his mum to eat it as a kid and loves it. He also loves chicken feet. My parents never fed me chicken feet, I did not know it was edible until he told me... so it's pretty much a cultural thing. I did try cartilage after he told me "eat it, it's good!!" but it takes some getting used to. It's not bad, it's very crunchy!!!

Never really went out of my way to eat chicken cartlidge before. But in Thailand, their chicken curry had lots of cartlidge, cracked bones, and bone marrow. As gross as that sounds, it was sooo good.

Well never had it, but I'd like to try it...

I don't really like the taste of chicken cartilage. I would always try to avoid eating them as I would always imagine myself chewing on a crunchy bone. Munch munch...

not sure if the cartlidge would be very nutritious haha :P

Anything is edible! Some things just make you sick. But i'd Nankotsu, or even regular deep fried chicken.

I remember when I first went to karaoke, and the TA ordered that, noone knew what it was, but it tasted good, kinda spicy. Later he told us, noone really freaked out, just surprised.

I think that's the best stuff you can get from a chicken, next to the skin that is. I'm used to eating that a lot.

I think I will stick to eating the meat of my chickens and not it's cartilage...that sounds kind of nasty to me. @_@ Although, it would be worth a try at least once.

Talk about exotic foods, why dont all of you try eating a boiled chicken egg - which the chick is almost complete in the egg yet you boiled it alive inside the shell and then eat it hehehe!!!

Cartilage...originally crunchy...
Now deep-fried...even MORE crunchy!

Yummy~~

i always eat any piece of chicken down to the bone. Cartilage is no exception, fried or not. XD

Never heard of it but it looks good. Hopefully it's not really cartilage though, is it? O_o

Never heard of it. Then again, if it was in Chinese I couldn't read it anyway.

the first time i'v heard of this

I don't know what that part is but it looks DELICIOUS! I also wouldn't mind eating it because...well, I'm Chinese :D

おいしいてすね

delish~ <3

When I was in Taiwan, we used to eat this kind of stuff all the time, fried and prepared other ways. (pork intestine hot pot, etc).

Looks deliciouso ^^

Haven't tried it but then again I always steered away from eating cartilage in any dish. Probably also influenced by the fact I avoid any dishes and preparations that come with meat still on the bone.

I love it a lot...and I am missing it a lot...T_T

I like cartilage be it chiken, beef, or pork. Anyone here ever try sizzling spicy Pigs ear mixed with pig brain, a dash of tabasco, and a raw egg on top, now thats food heaven.

I usually give the cartilage to my dog; I'm not really fond of it.

looks delicious

Hmmm I wanna try it! It looks so crispy. I love the lemon squeeze on fish as well, no doubt it makes this cartilage that much better

I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee this fooooooooooooooooodddddddddddd, yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!

I also really like this food. Most of this type of chicken is sold in frozen packs like chicken nuggets in my area, and I used to cook em for my lunch or snack. This food really goes well with rice.

"Is Nankotsu a typical dish in your neck of the woods?"

Here in the Philippines, several popular street foods are made by grilling skewered chicken and pig parts. I'm not talking about grilling up the meat, I'm talking barbecued bits-n-kibbles.

Just off the top of my-now-very-hungry-head, we have:

Chicken - heads, feet, blood (allowed to clot into blocks), intestines, butts (after cleaning), giblets

Pork - ears (chopped into slivers), snout, intestines again. The ears and face also form the basis of a favorite food to eat with beer and liquor.

I think I've eaten nankotsu, only it didn't come deep-fried.

cartilage?? as in the soft bone part??!! They sell them separately as a dish at Japan?? yum!! another reason to go there... >v<

Never had it as a separate dish, but one of my favorite part of chicken... I'm the type who left very little, i even chew the bones occasionally...^^

I have never heard of this in the USA. This is not to say that it isn't here but even if it is, it probably doesn't look as good. I love crunchy foods and I really love fried chicken.

wow,they accually take out that soft part and serve it like a crunchy appetizer?.......thats friggin awsome.....i always fish out that part out of the bowl every time i serve myself a piece of chicken

Probably the closest thing the Western world has to this is KFC. Which is of course disgusting. This looks very tasty though!

I had this for the first time in Tokyo a few months ago. Gotta say, it was a very novel experience :P

Well, up until now I had never heard of Nankotsu, but it sounds fantastic! I will have to scold my wife and friends for never ordering it during any of our visits to izakayas. I really need to study harder, I guess, so I can read everything on the menus! Next time I go to Japan (some time later this year I hope) I will definitely try it.

Mmmmmmm sounds...interesting :S. I don't think I'd be able to stomach that personaly. Depends on how it tastes

我超愛吃軟骨！ I love it!

Deep fried is not really that healthy...so i avoid it the best i can...

I've had my fair share of weird foods (from stir-fried intestine to coagulated chicken blood) >_<

I get my Nankotsu fix from Sakae Sushi...

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sure want to try some..
my place doesn't have this kind of dish..

I had some, and... well, I couldn't decide if it was edible or not ^^; luckily there are plenty of other Japanese dishes that I like!

Chinese people eat cartilage regularly, but I've never had chicken cartilage.
But damn that looks good fried.

Cartalidge? No thank you... Its consistancy is more like grissle right? Just.... no...

I haven't seen a local dish like that. But I naturally eat cartilages: chicken, cow. It's not about the taste but the feeling or may be the sound of cracking them. I guess, dogs have the same pleasure when they have a big bone to chew. =P

=/ Hungry~~~

Typical. bashing before even trying... ***sigh***

Looks ok.

"neck of the woods" you say? This translates as "el cuello de la madera" in spanish...

Rin is delighted because she just took all your desert when you weren't looking. It would be the first thing I would grab after all too.

Lol, I always give that part to my dog, we tend to not give him bones but rather the cartilage including the end parts of a drumstick.

I only eat a bit when I buy fried chicken at KFC and there's some on the chicken piece, otherwise I throw most of it in the bin.

Everything tastes good when its deep fried

Tried once before at one of the restuarant in Shibuya. It tasted as good as what I had back in my country.

sigh, tried looking for raw chicken cartilage at fairprice, a supermarket at singapore... can't find any... T.T

Anyone know where to get raw nankotsu at Singapore?? I'd love to try cooking it myself...

i don't think that cartilages are tasty at all

if you only eat the cartilages sure not taste good
thats why they deep fried it with mixture of flour and water(just like the fish and chip)

Looks yummy fried +_+ Not fried = bleh for sure x_x

Eat very little meat and but would have ago at it once. Still sounds strange eating cartilage.

Also had my first taste of chicken cartilage in Japan. Don't prefer it as much as I do chicken hearts however :P

looks like something you can eat here in the streets of the Philippines~
our street foods are unique and food is very cheap too^^

I will to eat that too! Deep fried with salt is Great!!

Once again, mmm. Yum.

I thought cartilage was not edible, as it's hard as hell to friggin' chew that lol.

We have that here in canada too but doesn't look anywhere near as good as the ones in ur photo mMMMMMM ^^ i wan some!!! hehe

I'm hungry XD

ewhhh, not a chicken cartilage fan. and luckily the local kfc doesn't dish it up. they serve rabbit instead.