Tamago....raw? :D

[pixyteri]

I want to try tamago kake gohan. :) Has anyone ever tried it? (Basically, hot steamed rice mixed with raw egg!) I think I'm going to...I mean, I've had food poisoning before, and salmonella is a very slim chance if you properly handle the eggs

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[nighstar]

dunno if you read my lj, but of course i have! but only in Japan... i don't know if i trust American or Australian eggs enough to eat them raw... in Japan there were eggs that were specifically labeled as being suitable for eating raw so i dont know if American etc eggs are handled/processed the same....

but goodluck! if it works out well for you maybe i'll try Australian eggs raw. :)

[pixyteri]

Hmmm...I may see if Japanese restaurants have it, but I don't know because Japanese restaurants in America would have to use American egg, right?

I really want to try it, however! I love eggs AND rice!

[m_miu]

I've eaten a ridiculous amount of raw foods since I've arrived in Japan! Seems pretty common here? Everything has been delicious though so I would say go ahead and try it!!

[pixyteri]

True but that's in Japan, their raw foods are probably much fresher. ^.^;

[yami_no_cosmos]

When I was younger me and my dad drank raw eggs to get extra protein when we trained soccer.
I was never ill. ^^

But then I live in Sweden I do not know if our eggs are better. xD
I only shop eggs that are from 'chickens that have been living outside'.

[pixyteri]

Hmmm I see O_o; It's hard to say with USA eggs, I mean on the chickens and their health, lol!

[faeriemuriel]

I'm in the US, and I've eaten this dish before! It was delicious, actually. My friend cooks a lot of Asian-type foods (and she lives really close to the Asian mega-mart in Atlanta, so it's all cheap and awesome). We were staying over and she woke us up for breakfast, and she put some stuff in front of us. It was a base of deliciously hot brown rice. She'd cracked the egg right onto the top of it, but it'd gone off to the side--the whites were barely cooking from the heat of the rice. Then she sprinkled some salty-sour furikake (rice seasoning, this kind had had some sort of plant in it she was familiar with but I wasn't) all over and stuck in a cold, left-over chicken meatball from the night before. I usually can't eat breakfast because my tummy gets upset, but I ate a bunch of this! I was a little squeamish to go right at the egg, but I mixed it in with a bite of rice and it actually made a really good texture.

[pixyteri]

Sounds delicious! Mine would be similar, except for simple steamed rice, the raw egg mixed in, and mixed with a little soy sauce for flavor.

It's not the squeamish that makes me worry, it's the OMG salmonella. Hm...what sort-of eggs did she use?

[faeriemuriel]

They were plain-old chicken eggs. She always has certain fresh foods in her house, and she makes sure they get eaten quickly. One of my chicken-raising friends said that most eggs are good for eating raw for about a week, then you should cook them.

[amelia_seyroon]

This reminds me of the 'Egg Song'. =D

[pixyteri]

Which is that? :D

[amelia_seyroon]