Like a lot of folks out there, we at World Eats are trying hard to get more soy into our diets. But we also like to be good to our taste buds. That’s why we were so thrilled to stumble upon edamame (eh-dah-mom-may), the addictively delicious soy bean appetizer served at most fine Japanese restaurants around the city and eaten like freshly shelled peas. These lightly boiled pods of soy beans come to the table cold and often sprinkled with course sea salt or tamari soy. Popping the sweet, nutty beans out of the pod and into one’s mouth becomes an art, one that’s a delight to practice as you gobble up dozens of the dime-size nubbins in the process. You can order edamame appetizers at Akai Hana Japanese Restaurant (3243 Lake St., Wilmette; 847-251-0384) for $3.50, Nohana Japanese restaurant (3136 N. Broadway; 773-528-1902) for $2.75, and at Hatsuhana (160 E. Ontario St.; 312-280-8287) for $5. But if you prefer to perfect your edamame eating at home, you can buy bags of frozen soy beans at Asian stores (imported to our soy heartland from China, oddly enough) for $1.99, boil them up and eat them like popcorn while watching your favorite Akira Kurosawa film.
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Thanks in japanese:
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