I cooked "Goya Chanpuru" for dinner.
It is okinawa food. Okinawa is one of Japanese prefectures, and it is in south Japan.
"Goya" is bitter melon. "Chanpuru" means 'mixed with vegetables and tofu' in okinawa dialect.
Ingredient
goya---1 piece
pork---100g
tofu---1 piece(350g) Today I used 2 pieces
egg---2 pieces
goya chanpuru's sauce---1 pack
All of them you can get at a super market.
Let's start cooking it!
1. cut goya in half and clear goya's seed and contents with spoon. Then slice 2~3 centimeters in thickness.
Put them on plate, add salt and wait for 10 minutes.
2.cut tofu in small size, cut pork, dissolve eggs
3.fry tofu until its surface is burned. Then put them on other plate.
4.fry pork and goya well and add tofu and goya chanpuru's sauce.
5.add egg and mix them.
6. finish!!
It was easy to cook this. However, goya is difficult to remove its bitterness.
My mother said "I can't eat this piece of goya alone because it is too bitter, but goya is delicious when I eat with tofu." Actually,tofu's taste is soft, so it matches goya.
Goya chanpuru was eaten only in okinawa before, but now all Japanese know and eat this dish. This is because it appeared on TV a lot of times.
Okinawa people love it, and they often eat it. Maybe this dish is easy to cook and they are easy to get goya, so it is loved by okinawa people.
It might be difficult to buy goya at stores except okinawa and I didn't know what goya is before goya chanpuru came on TV. Now goya is accepted by a lot of people in spite of that bitterness.
According to a reserch, goya has effect of treating diabetes.
goya is healthy food, so I would like to eat it periodically.
Oh! The day of May 8 is Goya day because "Go" means five and "Ya" means eight in Japanese.
Let's eat bitter melon on that day!!!
