{"id":331,"date":"2022-07-24T01:17:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T01:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=331"},"modified":"2022-07-24T01:17:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T01:17:26","slug":"national-unagi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2022\/07\/24\/national-unagi-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National Unagi Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Yesterday in Japan was Unagi Day, July 23rd. Unagi is broiled freshwater eel with sweet kabayaki (BBQ) sauce and if that sounds gross to you, you don’t know what’s good. It doesn’t even really taste like fish, but it’s soft and delicous. It’s said that eating unagi gives you energy for summer or something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typically, stores sell it pre-cooked with it marinated in the kabayaki sauce. My father-in-law in Nagano Prefecture knows where to order the unagi fresh and uncooked. He barbecues it in his backyard himself and he mailed some to us and it arrived yesterday morning. My only gripe is that for some reason, despite the proper cooking method shown on TV constantly, he does not apply the kaybayaki sauce to it while cooking. So the stuff he makes is not so soft and definitely does not have that melt-in-your-mouth property to it. He also sent us some hybrid peppers he grows which are a cross between green pepper and hot pepper. I think originally it was accidentally cross-pollinated and since then he’s just raised them like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The high yesterday was only 29 degrees, so it was a nice day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday in Japan was Unagi Day, July 23rd. Unagi is broiled freshwater eel with sweet kabayaki (BBQ) sauce and if that sounds gross to you, you don’t know what’s good. It doesn’t even really taste like fish, but it’s soft and delicous. It’s said that eating unagi gives you energy for summer or something. Typically, … <\/p>\n

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