Isekai Izakaya "Gen" - Vol. 6 Ch. 36 - Sukiyaki with Raw Egg & Rice

[welcome2atlantis]

Wait, not just garlic but all kinds of onions, too?
Oh noooo, our cats... those gluttons...

 

[tuges]

Mom's gonna have insomnia if the fox ever finds out about Iron Chef

 

[d_a_renoir]

Quick question: Is there a typo on page 19 where it says "He's a divine messenger..."
because in chapter 11, it introduces Fox sama saying "a strange customer appearing as a young girl". Is this a typo or is Fox sama a guy who just transforms into a girl for that chapter?

Japanese language often do not use distinguishable gendered pronouns (he/she), so the translator probably either didn't know or forgot. The fox's human form in that little panel isn't overly clear if it's male or female.

 

[DanYHKim]

I've always liked the raw egg dip for sukiyaki. I'm in the U.S. and have eaten raw eggs on rice since childhood with no problems. I have come to believe that most egg contamination news refers to eggs used in factory settings as an ingredient. Machines will crack and mix thousands of eggs at a time, and so a single badly contaminated egg will taint an entire production run of cookie dough or whatever.

But when I crack single eggs into a small bowl, add rice, sesame oil, and soy sauce, it's a different matter. I would notice if an egg is truly bad.

That said, it is known that significant amounts of bacteria can grow inside an egg before the egg shows signs of contamination. The flavor is not affected very much, while the bacterial load may still be enough to cause disease in someone who eats it raw. So you are taking your chances when doing such things.

 

[DanYHKim]

Sukiyaki is a sweet hotpot. It's good!

In my family we had it with spinach instead of Chinese cabbage. Mom also added kamaboko fish cake slices and bean sprouts. Maybe it's a Korean variant.

 

[DanYHKim]

Doesn't boiling lean meat basically dry it out?

The "grain" you see on the meat when mom brings it in shows it to be very heavily marbled in this case. That stuff must cost a fortune.

 

[DanYHKim]

So, divine messengers (at least this one) should not eat onions. Glad the author addressed this pressing issue.

That's funny because when the fox showed herself previously and ordered a "Kid's meal", she insisted that she would be OK with food that would normally be toxic to canines (chocolate, grapes, onions, and a few others). But maybe the onions didn't agree with her after all.

EDIT: OK, this is directly addressed later in the chapter, where the fox admits that the onions caused a stomach ache.

 

[DanYHKim]

Wait, not just garlic but all kinds of onions, too?
Oh noooo, our cats... those gluttons...

Sadly, alliums contain a compound that damages their red blood cells, reducing the ability to carry oxygen. In extreme cases, transfusion is necessary (according to Purina-UK website)

 

[DanYHKim]

Hahaha!
Nanami is using a Lamy Safari fountain pen, with its characteristic oval window.

 

[HaikenEdge]

The "grain" you see on the meat when mom brings it in shows it to be very heavily marbled in this case. That stuff must cost a fortune.

I was going by the translation, where the TL used the phase "lean meat" several times.

 

[miyako19]

It's a bit weird that they offer to the god after they have eaten half way, maybe it's different in Japan. Usually, offer to the gods first, then offer to the ancestors, then let the eldest members take the first bite, finally everyone digs in. Anyway, it's just old tradition, not everyone may follow nowadays.

I am Vietnamese. This kind of old tradition is only practiced in countryside. Young people don't follow it.
And in Japan, it is different. They don't have such complicated tradition. They also don't have an altar for ancestors. They only have altars for deceased immediate family members.

 

[miyako19]

I've always liked the raw egg dip for sukiyaki. I'm in the U.S. and have eaten raw eggs on rice since childhood with no problems. I have come to believe that most egg contamination news refers to eggs used in factory settings as an ingredient. Machines will crack and mix thousands of eggs at a time, and so a single badly contaminated egg will taint an entire production run of cookie dough or whatever.

But when I crack single eggs into a small bowl, add rice, sesame oil, and soy sauce, it's a different matter. I would notice if an egg is truly bad.

That said, it is known that significant amounts of bacteria can grow inside an egg before the egg shows signs of contamination. The flavor is not affected very much, while the bacterial load may still be enough to cause disease in someone who eats it raw. So you are taking your chances when doing such things.

You mist be lucky or the store you bought them from follow a different process.
I am in the US, too, but the everytime I eat store-bought eggs, they gave a stomachache. Eggs in the US aren't safe to eat because of the cleaning procedures. They scrubbed the eggs cleaned but as the same time, they scrubbed away the protective layer on the eggshell that prevents bacteria to infiltrate the eggs.
There are a few stores that guarantee their eggs are safe to eat raw and Japanese restaurants here use those sources.