I like "Unagi" that is eel. Unagi is the power food for many of Japanese. There is a little difference of cooking between western and eastern in Japan, but they are similar anyway. We usually like to have a grilled unagi with the sauce(so called "tare yaki") or just with salt(so called "shirayaki"). Here is the picture of "Una-juu" we have last week, that is the grilled unagi lapping over the rice. "Una" and "Juu" stands for "unagi" and "lapping over rice" respectively. At the supermarket, we can see grilled unagi imported from China. Those are cheep,but a kind of unsellable. Many of Japanese are nervous when any food imported from China because of their fear about the contamination in China. So they choose Japanese eel that is almost double price. I don't know the eel the unagi restaurant uses is from China or Japan, but we don't care almost. hahaha I guess most of the unagi restaurants don't h...
i reminded there are online TOKYO Gourmet Community I opened before. On orkut.com, there are 630 more members. TOKYO Gourmet / orkut.com http://www.orkut.com/Main#Community.aspx?cmm=11468 On facebook.com, there are some 100 members at this time. TOKYO Gourmet / facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27867490638 Interestingly, there are a lot of foreigners living in TOKYO, so you can easily enjoy to exchange information. Yes, getting better food is the common issue for all. So I believe all of members are willing to help strangers in TOKYO. Why not come and join us? Have fun!
Recently, it has beem a kind of warm, so that the flowers might almost be coaxed into showing signs of blooming. At the park in YOYOGI area, I could enjoy seeing Japanese apricot trees in bloom. It is really cute pink flower that is a kind of the sign of the spring coming. So it is earlier than SAKURA in bloom. The plum trees will be in bloom until early March. bigger map
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