Knowing how I love natto, friends arranged for me to eat the real thing.
It comes wrapped in straw, like this. Open up the straw bundle (which is held together by a piece of string I didn’t photograph, so intent was I on unpuzzling the package) and out pops a dollop of natto.
It was really, really good and lacked the smell that some find so offensive from packaged natto.
That looks disgusting. Mind you Natto and Cottage Cheese is quite nice.
I’ve tried natto in both pre-packaged and ’straw bundle’ forms. It tasted like … ‘chemicals’ is the best way I can describe it. It tasted like the smell of Pine-Sol.
I still want to try it with hot dogs, though.
Wow. Y’all are creative.
I’m telling you, though. Natto ice cream is still the way to go.
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I hope you got this in Mito, home of Natto
Mind you Natto and Cottage Cheese is quite nice.
Cool, riki. . . I thought I was the only fan of natto and cottage cheese, which I like to spread on toast as I commented on here.
I love natto but never had a chance to try the “straw bundle” form. I don’t think you can find some of this down here in Brazil.
Do anyone else eat it mixed with raw eggs on top of gohan in a bowl?
A friend got this for me and I do seem to recall he said it came from Ibaraki-ken. I’ve never eaten natto with egg. Wow. The toast thing sounds interesting. First soba sandwiches, and now natto on toast . . .
I’ve tried natto in almost every way, shape and form and yet, to my own embarassment, haven’t yet had the pleasure of the original.
Natto is great with eggs, mixed in curry and on top of Hiroshima okonomiyaki. I second natto on toast. Yum!
Wow, cool. Hadn’t seen it in its natural state before.
@ Edward
Yeah we have a natto restaurant in Fukuoka. Someone told me it’s the only one in Japan. Not sure if that’s true or not. Anyway that’s one of the dishes they served natto and cottage cheese salad. It was quite good. I was pretty drunk before I got there, so don’t remember much else
I’m thinking that I’ve got to try natto on a bagel.