卵焼き”しょっぱい””甘い”の食べ比べ
🇬🇧 English translation follows the Japanese text below.
最近、朝活を始めたらしいよ！健康的だねぇ😊 投稿 by K君
卵焼き”しょっぱい””甘い”の食べ比べ
今回はそんな”卵焼き”を シェアハウス HQ神戸のメンバー3人で作ってみました。
前日の夜までに参加者を募って、7時半のキッチンに集まる「朝活部」
これは、”朝活部”というイベントで、前日の夜までに参加したい人を募り、決められた時間(7:30ごろ)に共用部のキッチンに集まって、みんなで朝ごはんを作ると言う取り組みです。
出汁か醤油か、砂糖か。出身地で割れた卵焼きの味付け
しかし、いざ卵焼きを作ろうと言う段になって、味付けに困ってしまいました。私は兵庫出身なので、卵焼きには出汁か醤油を入れたいのですが、長野と福岡の二人は共に、卵焼きには砂糖が欠かせないと言うのです。
「甘くないのは卵焼きじゃない」とか「しょっぱいのは出汁巻き卵」とか言うご当地発言が飛び交う様は、日本全国から人が集まっているハウスならではの一コマだと思います。
卵を６つ使って”甘い”と”しょっぱい”を食べ比べる
結局は、卵を６つ使って”甘い”と”しょっぱい”を食べ比べてみることになりました。こういう、日常と非日常を同時に味わうようなことを、人は”趣”と呼んだりするのかも知れません。
旅先の宿でテレビを付ける時、通勤列車の窓から桜並木を眺める時、異国の地で友人と邂逅する時、ふと湧き起こる、えも言われぬ感情。それは、とても自然で、大切なものです。
このハウスは、そんな”趣”で満ちています。いつもの食卓に、見知らぬ品が並ぶこともあれば、一人暮らしを謳歌しながら、実家の味を楽しむことだって出来るからです。
次の朝活部では、みんなの故郷の味を聞いてみたい
今度の朝活部では、みんなが思う故郷の味について聞いてみようと思います。もちろん、海外の方も居られるので、まだ見ぬ”朝ごはん”が楽しめるかもしれません。生活のシェアとは、食文化の共有でもあるのです。
もっと読む
朝活部の舞台になったキッチンや、ハウスでの暮らしについては、こちらもどうぞ。
It looks like people have started a morning routine club lately! So healthy 😊 Posted by K-kun
Salty vs. sweet tamagoyaki taste test
This time, three members of The Headquarters Kobe share house got together to make “tamagoyaki” (Japanese rolled omelette).
“Morning Club”: sign up the night before, meet in the kitchen at 7:30
This all happened during an event called “Morning Club,” where anyone who wants to join signs up by the night before, and at a set time (around 7:30) everyone gathers in the shared kitchen to cook breakfast together.
Dashi and soy sauce, or sugar? A seasoning split by hometown
But when it actually came time to make the tamagoyaki, we ran into a seasoning dilemma. I’m from Hyogo, so I wanted to season the eggs with dashi or soy sauce, while the other two, from Nagano and Fukuoka, both insisted that sugar is essential in tamagoyaki.
Comments like “it’s not tamagoyaki if it’s not sweet” or “the salty kind is just dashimaki tamago” flew back and forth, each rooted in someone’s hometown way of doing things — a scene that could only happen in a house where people from all over Japan live together.
Six eggs, two versions: comparing “sweet” and “salty” side by side
In the end, we used six eggs and made both a “sweet” version and a “salty” version to compare. Moments like this, where you savor the everyday and the extraordinary at the same time, might be exactly what people mean by “flavor.”
Turning on the TV in a hotel room while traveling. Watching the cherry blossoms go by from a commuter train window. Running into a friend by chance in a foreign country. These moments stir up a feeling that’s hard to put into words. But it’s a very natural, very precious kind of feeling.
This house is full of that same “flavor.” Sometimes unfamiliar dishes show up at the everyday dinner table, and other times you get to enjoy the taste of home while still living out your independent, one-person-household life.
Next time, asking everyone about the taste of home
At the next Morning Club, I’d like to ask everyone about the taste of home they grew up with. Since there are members from overseas too, we might get to discover some brand-new kinds of “breakfast.” Sharing a life together also means sharing a food culture.
Read more
More about the kitchen where Morning Club happens, and about life in the house.
- Shared spaces — the kitchen and dining room where Morning Club gathers
- Resident interviews — voices of people who actually lived here
- Rooms and rent — room types and costs
- Viewings and enquiries — if you’d like to come and see it