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| Big Chicken Cutlets Bento |
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| Okra and Enoki Mushroom Okaka sauce |
The bento is 498 yen, but I had to eat some more rice to match the large chicken katsu. Enoki mushrooms are small white mushrooms with long necks/stalks.
Okaka, a.k.a.
katsuobushi, is dried, fermented, and smoked skipjack tuna. I've previously referred to this simply as dried fish flakes. They're also used to top
okonomiyaki,
takoyaki, and even
yakisoba.
Okaka ae is translated by Google as Okaka sauce, but I think it is not referring to the
okaka as the sauce; i.e. the whole thing is like an Okaka sauce. There are other types of
okaka ae, like one made primarily using cabbage (i.e.
kyabetsu no okaka ae), and so on. I didn't do it that way, but I guess I should have topped my rice (or my chicken?) with this, treating it as like a sauce.
Also,
okaka ae is written as おかか和え where the
a is the same as the
wa (和) in
wagyuu (the expensive beef famously from Kobe) and
wafuu (our/Japanese style). I don't know why yet. Do you guys know?
Anyway, guess why I had to have all of this for dinner... Well, it's because I just had that very light "cheap" pizza for lunch. :D
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