Eel

It is very hot these days in Japan. Japanese people are tired to be in hot. Many people of them eat eel in summer. Especially they eat eel on the day of the ox in midsummer. There two types of the way how they eat eel. One is “Unaju” which is served broiled eel over rice in a lacquered box. The other is “Unadon” which is a bowl of eel and rice. Generally the price of “Unaju” is higher than “Unadon”. Recently Japanese eels are defined as one of endangered species. So the prices of both “Unaju” and “Unadon” are amazingly high. I seldom eat “Unaju” and “Unadon” these a couple of years.