Grilled eel is the best. Just clap some salt onto it, maybe a bit of sesame oil too for the aroma, and just GRILL :grillman: BABY.
It's just addicting when it develops that outer shell of crunchiness and rich oiliness, it'd put it s my close second favorite zeefood, number one being grilled/pan-fried norwegian mackerel.
Unagi sushi. But i don't order it anymore bc apparently the eels are endangered. : (
Unadon is one of my favorite Japanese foods. The great thing for me about Japan was that even their chain restaurants might have it and it would still be pretty damny good.
Unadon (鰻丼, an abbreviation for unagi donburi, "eel bowl") is a dish originating in Japan. It consists of a donburi type large bowl filled with steamed white rice, and topped with fillets of eel (unagi) grilled in a style known as kabayaki, similar to teriyaki. The fillets are glazed with a sweetened soy-based sauce, called tare and caramelized, preferably over charcoal fire.
The fillets are not flayed, and the grayish skin side is placed faced down. Sufficient tare sauce is poured over so that some of it seeps through the rice underneath. By convention, pulverized dried berries of sanshō (called Japanese pepper, although botanically unrelated) are sprinkled on top as seasoning.
I haven't had it in ~15 years. Where I live if unadon is available - it's surely insanely expensive plus it probably isn't even that good. I'm going to google for it anyway though.
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I just noticed the typo - I'm leaving it. It's like I created a katakana word by mistake: damnygood.
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I googled.
A restaurant with a 4.2 at Google Reviews has it for $14. But can it really be anything but just okay? 難しい。
Muzukashī: difficult, hard, etc.
Oh, man. Sometimes I wish I lived in a big city. This is really one of those times.
You'll laugh at this. I found a Japanese place that my friend said is "just okay" but they have unadon. Guess how much it is.
Answer
~$39.
She never had the unadon so I don't even know if it's any good. It might not be. Japanese restaurants here often have some best dishes like gyoza which are hard to screw up. But other things on the menu are not that good.
Maybe the serving size is really big
I hadn't even thought of that. But where I live the norm is portions are smaller than the American norm.
You gonna give it a shot at some point?
If it was a something like a one star restaurant - most likely. I'd make it a present to myself even though it's a crazy price. I've walked by the restaurant and looked inside. It's nothing special judging from the interior. I don't give a crap about that put most people do.
If my hunch is right and the the unadon is just okay - I'll never have it. This 39 buck meal is a reminder to me that the restaurant is close enough to downtown that it surely gets some tourist business. And as I said - tourists tend to be total morons with money to burn.
I really have no idea (just assumptions) about how the rich eat here. Maybe they think the restaurant is "folksy" or whatever. If I ever see a ~100 grand SUV the size of an APC parked near the restaurant - maybe the driver is getting the 39 dollarbowl for takeout. The rich are total morons with money to burn too.
Many locals have been squeezed to death by high rents and high prices so reasonably priced good food is a real rarity. We're a tourist town and I have a theory most tourists are unable to think when they are on vacation. I just hate spending $7 a half-assed serviceable burrito. But I suspect the tourists chow down on it thinking it's real and wonderful local cuisine. There are Japanese/Asian places but dine-in and take-out food will likely be pathetic unless I spend a ridiculous amount of money.
I hope in about a decade when I retire I can move to a place that's more suited to my lifestyle. I hate to cook and I'd get take out if I could.
Only ever had unagi sushi, and it's one of my favorites. There's this place that does $1 sushi mondays and back before the pandemic I used to go every week and just spend like $30 on sushi.
love eel on sushi tho i think u should censor meat dishes in this comm
