In some areas Ise ebi is put on Kagami-mochi (a round rice-cake offered to a deity) as a decoration for celebration, and it is also used as one of the shinsen (food and alcohol offerings to the deities).
地方によっては正月の鏡餅の上に載せるなど、祝い事の飾りつけのほか、神饌としても用いられている。