Japanese Appetizer (O-toushi/お通し): Carrot Salad & Onsen Tamago/Hot Spring Egg!

O-toushi/お通しis actually a bit difficult to translate.
In a Japanese (in Japan) izakaya it is an appetizer that is served with the first drink and that you pay for in general in lieu of a cover charge.
I have nothing against such a notion as it gives you a good idea of the chef’s skills!

Dragon has two specialties of her own.
One is a carrot salad she prepares with finly cut carrot, rice vinagr, sugar and a secret she wouldn’t tell me.
Serving it walnut and parsley it already makes for a colorful and healthy salad!

Her other specialty is onsen tamago/温泉玉子/eggs soft-boiled so as to preserve a soft yolk core.You do need high quality eggs, though, with a great yolk.
Once cooked and forcibly cooled down she peels the eggs and marinate them, hence the outside color.
The point is not to cut the eggs open but to “tear” them open carefully!

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