Taiyaki is a small fish-shaped cake filled with beans, custard, or whatever else. Tai means sea bream, and yaki means cook. This giant taiyaki isn't a breaded dessert. It's a huge amount of salt covering an actual sea bream.
Here it is before being baked.
And here's the real fish inside. It tastes like salty fish. You can play a fun game I've named, "Try not to eat a mouthful of salt." It's really difficult, and your blood pressure gets higher the more you lose.
