| Eel is a famous food of Japan. In Japan, eel is | | | | roast. When the skin of eel starts to be crispy, |
| usually called as unagi. This is generally used as a | | | | spread the spices on it, and so on until its meat |
| side dish to serve with rice or served as sushi. | | | | would be ripe. Then, you can cut and serve it with |
| In Japan, you can find unagi in almost every | | | | its complements. |
| restaurant. It is also sold in plastic package. You | | | | This food is usually eaten with kimo soup, |
| do not need to be doubt about its taste because | | | | completed with the slice of onion leaves, wasabi, |
| this food has usually been flavored with a kind of | | | | seaweed crackers, salty ketchup, and warm and |
| ketchup, so its taste is delicious. Indeed, this unagi | | | | smooth rice. It is also completed with green tea, |
| contains high fat and protein, so its taste is | | | | the special drink from Japan. |
| deliciously oily and salty. | | | | Kimo soup itself is made from the eel liver. The |
| Because of the popularity of this food and | | | | liver is separated from the eel when its bowels |
| Japanese who cares so much about food quality, | | | | are cleaned. The size of its liver is very small, but |
| the difference of one unagi and others is from | | | | it does influence the taste of this food. |
| the cookery of its chef to cook it. | | | | You do not need to worry about the taste of its |
| To taste the delicacy of this food, you can visit | | | | liver because it is not bitter, but delicious and very |
| one of restaurants in Nagoya, Japan. You can | | | | smooth in your tongue. Its texture is almost |
| choose any unagi you want. If you want have a | | | | same as the texture of chicken liver. Its putrid |
| lunch with hitsumabushi or roasted unagi, you can | | | | taste is even nothing. You just feel the warmth |
| visit a special restaurant that serves it in Shirako | | | | of soup. |
| Sakae Shop, Nagoya Shi Nakanu, 3-15-33, Nagoya. | | | | Remember that there is a certain way to have a |
| If you want to find other restaurants, it is also | | | | meal with this food. In this case, there are three |
| possible for you. It is not that difficult to find the | | | | ways that give you three different sensations. |
| restaurant that serves this food. Just see at the | | | | Firstly, you can have a meal with rice mixed with |
| display window of restaurant. You can see the | | | | unagi directly. By this way, you can maintain the |
| imitation of this food there. | | | | origin taste of this food. |
| Like other typical foods, its price in a small size | | | | Secondly, you can add eel in one of available |
| bowl is 1.600 yen, in average size bowl is 2.250 | | | | spices like onion leaf, seaweed, or wasabi. By this |
| yen, and in big size bowl is 3.500 yen. The | | | | way, you can taste it differently because the |
| expensive price is because of its chosen eel, and | | | | aroma and hot wasabi taste add the sensation of |
| it is cooked on the spot. | | | | its taste. |
| In addition, the owner of restaurant sometimes | | | | Thirdly, you can mix all available spices in a bowl |
| gets special eels into Nagoya from Shizuoka. The | | | | of unagi mixed with rice. The taste is so rich |
| age of eels is also limited about two years | | | | because its smooth and delicious eel is mixed with |
| because if their age is more than two years, their | | | | hot spices and crispy seaweed. |
| meat is tough, and if their meat is too small, it is | | | | This food is usually served with all complement |
| not delicious to eat. | | | | spices in a tray, completed with unagi and kimo |
| To make hitsumabushi, unagi that is cleaned is | | | | soup. By this way, you can choose by yourself |
| roasted. Its cooking spices are simple. Just flavor | | | | the way you want to have a meal with this food. |
| it with Japanese ketchup, mirin, sugar, and sake. In | | | | However, most customers generally like the third |
| this case, sake is the key for this food because it | | | | way. |
| adds aroma of this food and omits putrid taste. | | | | In conclusion, with different ways to cook, eel can |
| In cooking hitsumabushi, unagi is roasted fast | | | | be a delicious food, especially for you who are |
| because its meat will be tough if it is too long to | | | | food lovers. |