Isekai Izakaya "Nobu" - Vol. 20 Ch. 123 - Look Out, Here He Comes!

[d_a_renoir]

That takikomi gohan looks so good. It's not fried rice, right? If I order it outside of Japan but in a Japanese restaurant, is the name also takikomi gohan, just like how oyakodon is still using the same name?

Takikomi gohan is when there's ingredients cooked together with the raw rice in one pot/rice cooker (like fish or meat or mushrooms and vegeetables). Usually it's also flavoured with dashi or soy sauce. It should still be called that in restaurants, or just in case try "gomoku gohan".
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There is no specific standard for what ingredients should be included, so people can easily make this at home. One of the simplest recipes I saw online just needs soy sauce, mirin, chicken, and some vegetables or mushrooms to go in the rice. Mirin, soy sauce, and dashi should be purchaseable in Asian markets, and you can even forego the dashi. Just use teriyaki sauce diluted in the water to make the rice.

 

[starartx]

Oh I’m sobbing this was such a good chapter TTTT this manga really makes such good characters and incorporates them well into the story

 

[sunshinelemons]

That takikomi gohan looks so good. It's not fried rice, right? If I order it outside of Japan but in a Japanese restaurant, is the name also takikomi gohan, just like how oyakodon is still using the same name?

Here's Cooking with Dog's recipe for takikomi gohan 😊

 

[FLuffyMofu]

darn my eye now have water

 

[SoundSoul]

The "Fish island" description is not an exaggeration. In Mark Kurlansky's book Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, the fisheries around North America were described in this way, with cod so abundant that one need only lower a basked into the waters to pull it up filled with fish. The water itself could hardly be seen for all the fish that were swimming in it.

We think of the deep sea as a kind of desert concealing its life beneath a veil of water, but that is an image of recent centuries. The untouched ocean was teeming with life. Historical descriptions of New England say that lobsters used to wash up into giant piles on shore after a storm. The past century or so have established in our minds a normal image of an ocean of scarcity, where nets have to be cast deeply to haul up fish, and ships have to roam across leagues to encounter whales. But the times before human exploitation had the seas filled with life to an unimaginable extent. Vast herds of whales instead of the scattered pods we see now are the remnant of a devastated population surviving after a holocaust. Migrations of fish that you could practically walk on.

This reminds me of a feeling I'd get ever since I watched some screensaver footage of a TV in a bait and tackle shop. It was vintage footage of fisherman from what I'd assume is the early 1900s, and they were tuna fishing. But instead of the sparse catch that I have first hand experience with, where you catch each fish individually and sometimes can watch whole schools pass under the boat without coaxing a single bite, in the footage, these fishermen were lined up on a plank that was practically dipping in the water, and they were HAULING tuna over their shoulders. I wasn't fishing with a rod in the traditional sense. They had rods sure, but those rods caught a tuna the moment it hit the water, they would spend the next 5 seconds making huge efforts to bring the big fish out of the water and to the boat behind them, before casting again.
As physically demanding as it is, I still lament that such an activity is just impossible, even if laws allowed it, simply because the fish stock of the oceans is not longer as abundant.

 

[DanYHKim]

As physically demanding as it is, I still lament that such an activity is just impossible, even if laws allowed it, simply because the fish stock of the oceans is not longer as abundant.

Yes. It's like another world. When I first read about the abundance of the Passenger Pigeon in America, I could not imagine it. A bird that was so numerous that its flocks blotted out the sun. By the 20th century, the world was greatly depleted, and we are now fighting over the remnants.