The other day, I needed some rice for some leftovers I planned to have for lunch, so I stopped into Lawson (a convenience store), to pick up a musubi (rice ball).What I found was a sale of their musubi...
I picked up this musubi...hele katsu (pork filet cutlet), normally 139 yen (about US$1.39)....everything was 100 yen (about US$1).
A nice sized piece of pork filet, fried then doused with a sweet-salty tonkatsu (pork cutlet) sauce.
When I first came to Japan and saw "hele" (hay-lay) in Japanese (katakana) I was like WT? It isn't a word we learned in school. When I looked it up I realized it meant "filet".
Apparently the Kanto area (East Japan) calls it "hire" (he-lay) and the Kansai area calls it "hele" (hay-lay), both meaning "filet".
This musubi could definitely be a meal in itself.
Are those dialects in Japan?
ReplyDeleteLooks good and what a bargain even not on sale!
ReplyDeleteyes Mikuru, the pronounciation is different in East and Western Japan :)
ReplyDeleteI know, I think I may go back after the sale Debinhawaii :)
Take care you two.
Kat
Hi Kat - Now that looks like something I'd be eating all the time if I had a chance to....
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw the word hele, I immediately thought of the song Hele On to Kauai. How neat to be learning new things about the language even after all this time!
ReplyDeleteHi Kirk, this is some really good comfort food :)
ReplyDeleteRowena, when I typed it out, all I could think of was "home"...
Take care you two.
Kat