Dietary supplementation in summer!
Eat grilled Eel rice at ”eel’s day”
Japanese’s ”eel’s day” is at 7/25 or 7/24. Why all Japanese eat Eel rice at today?
The old fairy tale said because the selling volume of eels at summer is very low,someone selling eel to ask a genius named “平賀源內”, he wrote down some words on paper: ” today, 土用丑の日, eel’s day” he created the rule of eat Eel rice at every year’s 7/25 or 7/24, but in simply it’s a marketing selling way to let everyone buy eels at hot summer!
In difficult summer,people will be loss of appetite, at these time can eat Eel rice to recover the appetite, smells tasty and full of nutritions.
You should try to eat Eel rice at eel’s day at this year,try Eel rice to dietary supplementation,will make you increased strength.
What’s the difference between UNADON and UNAGI JYU?
The answer is amount of eel is different. The quality of the eel is different. Eating at the same shop and trying to compare, I can understand the difference.
If you arrange them in order from the lesser to least-ranked one, they will be Unadon(average) → Unopened (average) → Unadon (top) → UPPER (top). The price also increased in this order.
UNA DON’s sauce will be mixed with rice(called MABUSIまぶし). In the other hand, UNAGI JYU will be separate the sauce from rice and the most special thing is they will be put in a luxury box.
It is more common to “put sauce on rice”.
“Covering rice with sauce” is a method unique to Ise.
うなぎ重 UNAGI JYU(with box)
picture from: lineblog.me
Japan’s summer are wonderful and brilliant, what do you want to do the events above?
There are two shops recommended in Japan:
①Kabuto (かぶと)
Access:Leave the Ikebukuro station west exit and go to the theater street in the direction of Kawagoe Kaido towards the post office.
Turn left at the first road and immediately on your right.
Distance Ikebukuro 464 feets
Address:東京都豐島區池袋 2-53-2
phone number: 03-3983-8608 (+81-3-3983-8608)
Open on:MON to FRI (not open on SAT and SUN and holidays)
うなぎ定食 UNAGI TEISYOKU(Eel rice set)
picture from:tabelog.com
website:http://osietesite.com/gourmet/tokyo/wasyoku/tesyoku/kabuto
②活鰻の店 つぐみ庵
Access:JR Komagome Station East Exit a 7-minute walk
478 m from Komagome station
Address:東京都北区中里1-29-1
phone number:03-3823-4591 (only reservation)
Open on:12:00～14:00 17:00～20:00 (not open on MON )
うな丼 UNA DON (Eel rice with bowl)
picture from:tabelog.com
You can also enjoy these events below:
Festivals and fireworks:
Sumidagawa Fireworks Festival 2016:
picture from:japanbook
It is difficult to travel in Japan during summer and not find yourself caught up in a matsuri (festival) of some sort. In cities and towns across the country, floats are paraded, people get kitted out in their colourful yukata (cotton kimono), food stalls cram the streets, fireworks explode, and the beer and sake flows.
Among the summer big-hitters are Kyoto’s famous Gion Matsuri, which runs for the whole month of July; and Osaka’s Tenjin Matsuri, on 24 and 25 July. In Northern Honshū there are unusual feats of strength – from 3 to 6 August people balance long bamboo poles strung with lanterns on their heads and shoulders for the Akita Kantō Matsuri. On Miyajima there is a centuries-old ceremony of traditional music in boats for Kangen-sai on 1 August. And on the island of Sado-ga-shima from 21 to 23 August, the Kodō Drummers wow music lovers at the Earth Celebration.
refer to:lonelyplanet
Taste of summer
Everyone should eat ice cream at hot summer! Because at summer we usually feel hot and annoying. Especially in Japan from fast food store and convenience store sweet food shops even at ramen shops will have ice. Here will offer you a famous ice shop at Tokyo called ” ひみつ堂” Japan’s ice istutile made 7/25 as “cakikouri day” everyone will eat cakikouri at this day.
They use natural ingredient to make surprise flavor “cakikouri”
picture from：andscene
This famous “ひみつ堂” you can eat ice cream at here hole year, it have high reviews 3.7 points at Japan’s gourmet site.It taste like candy floss.Look as this strawberry ice cream! it full of the ingredients, sauce will drop down, you might eat hole the ice cream and lick the plate.But we wants to remind you, this famous ice cream is not easy to get, you must have patience to wait in line,although have to wait in line it’s definitely worthy to try!
「ひみつ堂」
・Address：3-11-18 Yanaka, Taito-ku, Tokyo
・Open time：MON~FRI 10:00～18:00╱SAT&SUN 10:00～20:00
・Not open on：Monday （October～May will be Tudesday）
・Access：JR “Nippori Station” walking in 5 minutes
・website:http://himitsudo.com/