is a type of

nabemono ''Nabemono'' (鍋物, なべ物, ''nabe'' "cooking pot" + ''mono'' "thing"), or simply ''nabe'', is a variety of Japanese hot pot dishes, also known as one-pot dishes and "things in a pot". Description Nabemono are stews and soups containin ...

made with

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meat and

mizuna , ''kyouna (京菜)'', Japanese mustard greens, or spider mustard, Mark Bittman is a cultivar of '' Brassica rapa'' var. ''niposinica''. Description and use Possessing dark green, serrated leaves, mizuna is described as having, when raw, a "pi ...

. It is mainly found in the

Kansai The or the lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū. The region includes the prefectures of Nara, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo and Shiga, often also Mie, sometimes Fukui, Tokushima and Tottori. The metropoli ...

region, mostly in the

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metropolitan area. The name "harihari" is onomatopoeic and refers to the sound of chewing mizuna. The dish is most often made with fat meat, called . When whaling was popular in Japan,

whale meat Whale meat, broadly speaking, may include all cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises) and all parts of the animal: muscle (meat), organs (offal), skin (muktuk), and fat (blubber). There is relatively little demand for whale meat, compared to far ...

was cheap and easy to get, and the dish was eaten by the masses. Once commercial whaling ended, whale meat became more difficult to obtain, so pork or duck were frequently substituted in for whale.

Variations

There are variations of hari-hari nabe based on region and ingredient availability. If

aburaage is a Japanese food product made from tofu. Thin slices of tofu are deep-fried, and the product can then be split open to form pouches. is often used to wrap , and it is added to miso soup. It is also added to udon noodle dishes, which are ca ...

is used in place of whale meat, it is called . Some restaurants use

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in place of whale. Other variations include the addition of mushrooms or tofu.

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Variations

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