Did You Eat Eel Yet?

Yesterday, I took a lunch in "Yoshinoya".
Yoshinoya is the most famous "GYU-DON" restaurant chain in Japan.
What's about gyu-don?
"Gyu" means beef. And "don" is short for "donburi" that is a Japanese style bawl.
Gyu-don is a dish that boiled many slices of beef with flavored broth on rice in donburi.



But my target was not gyu-don, that was "UNA-DON"!
"Una" is short for "unagi". And Unagi means eel. In japan, eels are usually ate as "KABAYAKI".
Kabayaki is a dish that broiled eels with secret sauce. That sauce called "TARE". Tare has very complex taste; sweet, a little bitter and a just little pungent.
Una-don, as well as gyu-don, is a dish that broiled some pieces of kabayaki on rice with tare n donburi.
　


By the way, why did I eat unadon?
In Japan, there is a custom that eat the eel in July. We say it "DOYOU NO USHI NO HI".
It is the old wisdom that eating eels as high nourishing foodstuff makes us healthy　before summer.

Let's eat una-don, and keep your health!


「もう、うなぎは食べましたか？」

昨日、“吉野家”でお昼ご飯を食べた。
吉野家は日本で一番有名な牛丼のチェーン店だ。
牛丼って何でしょう？
“牛”は牛肉のことで。そして、“どん”は日本風のボウルの“どんぶり”を省略したものだよ。
牛丼は、どんぶりにつがれたご飯に、煮たスライス肉を味付けした煮汁と一緒に盛った料理なんだ。

でも、僕の目的は牛丼じゃなかく、うな丼だった！
“うな”は“うなぎ”を省略した言い方だ。日本では、うなぎはだいたい“蒲焼”で食べられる。
蒲焼は秘密のソースで直火で焼いたうなぎ料理のことだよ。そのソースは“タレ”と呼ばれてる。タレは甘くて、少し苦くて、そしてほんの少しピリっとした、とても複雑な味わいがある。
牛丼と同じく、うな丼はどんぶりにつがれたご飯に、蒲焼を盛った料理だ。

ところで、何で牛丼を食べたか？
日本では、7月にうなぎを食べる風習がある。“土用の丑の日”って言うんだ。
夏を前に、栄養のあるうなぎを食べることによって元気を維持できるっていう、昔の知恵なんだ。

うな丼を食べて、健康でいましょう！

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