If you go back to Japan, I highly recommend trying it.  It is one of my favourite foods.  Horse meat has a nicer flavour than beef, and especially eaten raw it is amazing.  Unfortunately horse meat is quite rare where I live (Shizuoka prefecture), so I only usually get to eat it when I&#x27;m travelling.<p>I often wonder where the meat comes from though.  Do they use young horses, or old, for instance?  Also, the basashi I&#x27;ve had seems like it might be the tenderloin (it is very tender), so I wonder what happens to the rest of the animal.  I&#x27;d very happily use it in stews if I could get it.