7-October-2022(Fri)

チャップ丼

今回のこの日こんなもの食べましたは、北海道・滝川市の名物料理「チャップ丼」です。

札幌と旭川の中間に位置する滝川市。ＪＲ滝川駅にほど近い栄町3丁目で1953年から営業する老舗食堂の高田屋さんのメニューです。

ご飯の上に刻み海苔、その上に甘辛く炒め煮にした豚肉の薄切りをたっぷりのせた丼物です。

元々は御店主が高校生の時に作った弁当が原型とか。まぁ、豚丼の一種なんでしょうが、豚背ロース(ポークチャップ)を使っているのでチャップ丼と命名したそうです。

豚丼より肉が薄くて味が濃く、ご飯と肉の間に海苔を撒いているのが特徴でしょうか。何となく弁当だった頃の姿を想像できますね。

実にガテン系な料理なんですが、滝川に就学・就労している男性なら一度は食べたことがあるんじゃないでしょうか。

Today's dinner is Hokkaido's Takikawa City specialty "Chap-don".

Takikawa city is located between Sapporo and Asahikawa. This is the menu of the long-established restaurant "Takadaya", which has been operating since 1953 in Sakaemachi 3-chome, which is close to JR Takikawa Station.

A bowl of rice topped with thinly sliced seaweed and plenty of thinly sliced pork stir-fried in a salty-sweet sauce.

Originally, the prototype was the bento that the owner made when he was in high school. By the way, it is a type of pork bowl, but it is said that it was named chap-don because pork back loin (pork chap) is used.

The meat is thinner and more flavorful than the pork bowl, and is characterized by a seaweed topping between the rice and the meat. You can imagine what it looked like when it was a bento box.

If you are a man studying or working in Takikawa, I think you have eaten it once.