Grilled Eel

Whenever you eat freshwater creatures, you always have to watch out for parasites.

The same goes for freshwater shrimp and crabs, not just fish.

So eating them raw is absolutely out of the question; they have to be cooked thoroughly all the way through.

Parasites are vulnerable to heat, so boiling or grilling them thoroughly keeps them from doing much harm to humans.

I placed the limp eel on a flat rock.

First, I had to clean it.

The method was similar to when I cleaned the octopus last time.

If I sprinkled salt over the eel’s body and scrubbed it hard, the slippery mucus came right off.

Yerin, who had been watching beside me, gazed at the bamboo tube and spoke regretfully.

“Rils. We’ve used up all the salt now… I made it after suffering under the blazing sun.”...