Meat, mackerel and other foods are being increasingly promoted as substitutes for « kabayaki, » or grilled, eels ahead of the midsummer Day of the Ox in Japan.
Meat, mackerel and other foods are being increasingly promoted as substitutes for « kabayaki, » or grilled, eels ahead of the midsummer Day of the Ox in Japan.
In the country, nutritious grilled eels have traditionally been eaten on the Day of Ox. There are two such days this summer–next Friday and Aug. 1. Supermarkets and department stores are increasingly curbing sales of eel products on the back of a continued decline in catches of baby Japanese eels for farming and concerns about the extinction of the species.
