While passing through the Gongguan area, I came across a Japanese-style dining place that specializes in eel rice, where you even have to use a self-ordering machine outside to pay.

However, this is actually a Taiwanese take on Japanese cuisine. Fooday just happens to have this type of restaurant!

I ordered the grilled eel set meal (small), and the rice was plentiful. The eel sauce was rather sweet, and the texture was not soft enough; in fact, it was a bit bouncy. This seems to be a common interpretation of Taiwanese eel rice? There were small bones, but the main issue was that it wasn't hot enough.

My basic understanding of Japanese grilled eel is that it should be grilled at high temperatures until the meat is extremely tender, easily falling apart when picked up with chopsticks. Even if there are fine bones, they should be grilled to the point of being soft enough to swallow without getting stuck in your throat. Unfortunately, this dish did not meet those standards.

Dine-in customers can help themselves to warm tea, and the set meal also comes with apple vinegar and Taiwanese side dishes. The music playing in the restaurant was all Mandarin pop music.