Japanese love their eggs.
Every farm region has their own special chicken breed and eggs, each farmer has a special feed. For us consumers, it is the thickness of the yolk that gets us terribly excited. You see, Japanese hardly eat their eggs without the yolk. It is the orange central that symbolises an egg.
Japanese love their egg yolks creamy and runny. There are so many ways eggs make their appearance at the dinner table but all of them have one common characteristics; yolks are never dry and hard.
So what does a fresh egg look like? Raw yolks with a elastic feel, and whites which seems more congeal than runny.
Can one measure the nutrition level by looking at the deepness of the color of the yolk? No, that would be a biased measure as the deepness of the color of the yolk really depends on what is included in the chicken feed.
Brown eggs and white eggs taste different? Brown eggs comes from brown chickens and white eggs from white chickens. Again, nutrition values should not be judged upon color of the shell.
The first egg dish every japanese would have experienced as a child would be o-ta-meshi (raw egg on rice). It calls for a bowl of steaming hot white rice, a fresh (preferably just laid) egg and some lite soya sauce. Crack the egg over the rice, splash in your desired amount of soya sauce, mix it all up and you have a highly nutritious dish that will satisfy any growing child's needs.
But over the years, the japanese diet changed drastically. Children ate hamburgers, fries, cheese, many would not touch anything else that do not resembles a McDonald burger meal. A study has shown that o-tameshi is virtually unknown to the younger generation.
What a touching sight for me to see a bunch of teenagers getting together to share how they ate o-tameshi as toddlers. One broke the yolk without stirring much, one stirred with gusto, another used salt instead of soya sauce, yet another dispensed of the white totally. Pot after pot of cooked rice disappears as they compared one egg from another.
It was a party like any in the neighborhood, only with a specific theme that may never surfaced easily again.
Every farm region has their own special chicken breed and eggs, each farmer has a special feed. For us consumers, it is the thickness of the yolk that gets us terribly excited. You see, Japanese hardly eat their eggs without the yolk. It is the orange central that symbolises an egg.
Japanese love their egg yolks creamy and runny. There are so many ways eggs make their appearance at the dinner table but all of them have one common characteristics; yolks are never dry and hard.
So what does a fresh egg look like? Raw yolks with a elastic feel, and whites which seems more congeal than runny.
Can one measure the nutrition level by looking at the deepness of the color of the yolk? No, that would be a biased measure as the deepness of the color of the yolk really depends on what is included in the chicken feed.
Brown eggs and white eggs taste different? Brown eggs comes from brown chickens and white eggs from white chickens. Again, nutrition values should not be judged upon color of the shell.
The first egg dish every japanese would have experienced as a child would be o-ta-meshi (raw egg on rice). It calls for a bowl of steaming hot white rice, a fresh (preferably just laid) egg and some lite soya sauce. Crack the egg over the rice, splash in your desired amount of soya sauce, mix it all up and you have a highly nutritious dish that will satisfy any growing child's needs.
But over the years, the japanese diet changed drastically. Children ate hamburgers, fries, cheese, many would not touch anything else that do not resembles a McDonald burger meal. A study has shown that o-tameshi is virtually unknown to the younger generation.
What a touching sight for me to see a bunch of teenagers getting together to share how they ate o-tameshi as toddlers. One broke the yolk without stirring much, one stirred with gusto, another used salt instead of soya sauce, yet another dispensed of the white totally. Pot after pot of cooked rice disappears as they compared one egg from another.
It was a party like any in the neighborhood, only with a specific theme that may never surfaced easily again.
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