Japanese Eggs

[Mike Salovesh]

Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    The eggs I saw in Japan looked like eggs to me.  Eggs is eggs.

Japanese: TAMAGO, egg/eggs.

Sure, they look like eggs -- but there's at least one Japanese use of
eggs that you probably found unfamiliar.

If you are about to dine on sukiyaki, you may be provided a raw egg.
You're supposed to crack it open into a small bowl and beat it with your
hashi (chopsticks to us gaijin) when the sukiyaki is almost ready to
serve.  You then take a bit of beef from the pan of sukiyaki and dip it
into the egg bowl.  A thin coating of egg adheres to and is carmelized
by the hot meat.  The resulting flavor is food for the gods.

-- mike salovesh                    <salovesh at niu.edu>
PEACE !!!

With my birthday coming up this week, I counted back the years to my
time in Japan.  I left Japan a little over 47 years ago.  I remember it
like it was yesterday.

My big problem is that I can't remember yesterday like it was yesterday.