Goya champion

Mission, Goya champru (researched 13 Jul 2013)

As I told you before, Japan`s food culture is very much related to the seasons.

Today, I'll tell you "goya champru" that is one of the best dishes in the summer.

 Fortunately, my wife is a good cook, she told me how it's cooked at her kitchen.

INGREDIENTS,

1, goya (bitter melon), a word of "goya" is actually a dialect of Okinawa. "nigauri" is the word for it in standard Japanese.

This is how you prepare a goya. 1, get your self a spoon.

                                               2, scrape the seeds off the Goya.

2, tofu (bean curd)

3, garlic (We use marinated garlic) 

4, onion

5, carrot (finely chopped)

6, wonbok (Chinese cabbage)

7, pork

8, egg



9,bonito flakes

(We don't care about amount of each ingredient, we usually go generously.)

Seasonings

                      The green container sits in the mdle is infamous marinated garlic.
                      The stuff seriously kicks your ass.

1, pepper

2, fish sauce

3, kelp stock and bonito stock (convenience product)

(Use your common sense to season.)

COCKING

1, chopping the vegetables as you like.

2, stair fly chopped vegetable (since my wife doesn't like uncooked vegetable, she goes with vege first.)

                        She adds lots of garlic to make it filthy. You should do like wise.

3,  chopping pork to stair fly it till brown.

4, season with pepper

5, season with those two stocks

6, season with fish sauce

7, crush tofu and add to the pan

8, add egg to finish

All the cocking process is done with a pan or a wok. You are better to have a stove with turbo, you just gotta be rock'n roll at your kitchen to cock it.

TO SERVE.

1, get yourself a nice and big plate

2, top goya champru with bonito flakes

3, done

DRINKS.

Icy cold beer and a glass of shochyu liqour with ice (local liquor, distilled out of soba, wheat or sweet potato ) are the best to go with.

CONCLUSION.

Goya champru is a local dish of Okinawa. Their hot climate well suits punchy goya champru.

Farther more, the dish is highly nutritious, as well as cheep to cook.