Miso-Glazed Eggplant
$11 play money
Eggplant grilled soft under a sweet miso glaze. On the ChowChow Feast menu it costs $11 in play money, which puts it in the Snack tier ($1 to $14). It is one of the small, cheap things that make an order feel real.
No payment, no address, no delivery. This is a game.
Key facts
- Cuisine
- Japanese
- Menu section
- Japanese
- Price tier
- Snack ($1 to $14)
- Play-money price
- $11
- Main ingredients
- eggplant, sweet miso
- How it is served
- Two eggplant halves scored and glazed with browned miso, sprinkled with sesame
History, tradition and origin
Miso is a paste of soybeans fermented with salt and a grain mould, used in Japan for well over a thousand years. Miso soup is part of the traditional breakfast and of most set meals. Marinating fish in sweet white miso before grilling is an old Kyoto way of preserving it, and brushing miso on grilled eggplant is a summer dish.
Food economy and industry
Miso is made by large brewers and by small regional makers whose pastes range from pale and sweet to dark and strong. Fermentation takes from a few weeks to several years. Most soybeans used are imported, mainly from North America. Interest in fermented foods has helped miso exports grow steadily.
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