Have you ever heard "HITSUMABUSHI"?You know Japanese people like eels, though some foreigners say "yuck".
And HITSUMABUSHI is one way to eat eels, and it is one of the typical specialties of NAGOYA in AICHI.The "real" HITSUMABUSHI is
My husband went to NAGOYA on business the other day, and he bought HITSUMABUSHI-kits at a souvenir shop.
"Real" HITSUMABUSHI has enough eels, but the eel in this kid is a little. So we bought eels at a supermarket.
In Japan eels are expensive. Especially domestic eels are really expensive. So we bought domestic eels, and imported eels, though I know even the snig (baby eels?) of domestic eels are imported. But actually their taste and texture are different. Domestic eels are soft and thin, imported eels are hard , fishy--or rivery (I made this word, they smell like river) and wild.
Anyway w
e enjoyed eels themselves at first for dinner.
e enjoyed eels themselves at first for dinner.AND--- we got full.
So this morning we made a point to eat HITSUMABUSHI, though we ate out eels we bought for HITSUMABUSHI at supermarket.
We ate them lots of SHISO leaves I picked up from the garden this early morning instead of lots of eels, though there are some cut eels in them.
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