We saw that a lot of Unagi was being promoted in the supermarket on our way home.
When we came home Hiromi San prepared Unagi don for us.
Unagi don is steamed rice tooped with grilled eel served with a tasty sauce that tastes much like teriyaki.
Forgot to take photos but Unagi don looks like this.
土用の丑の日 ( day of the ox in midsummer ) signifies the start of summer, and Japanese normally eat eel on this day.
Eel is rich in vitamin B which helps combat summer heat exhaustion and loss of appetite it seems.
Firstly, you eat the Unadon just at it is, with the grilled eek and rice. Add a little more sauce if you like.
Next, for the second helping, you add some toppings such as the pickled radish and cucumber and also some nori seaweed. Otherwise you can just add same furikake ふりかけ on top, which is ready made dry toppings mostly containing sesame seed and nori.
Thirdly, you do as above, and this time you add dashi to your rice, eating it like ochazuke お茶漬け。
The other helpings after this you can do as you please.
