also: ドジョウじる
loach soup
A traditional Japanese soup made with pond loaches (どじょう). Often associated with countryside cuisine and sometimes cooked in a miso or soy-based broth.
In winter, my grandmother would make loach soup for us.
The local specialty of this area is loach soup.
Standard kanji-kana mixed spelling; the most common written form.
Katakana spelling for どじょう, often used in menus or for emphasis.
Full kanji spelling using rare characters; mostly seen in traditional or literary contexts.
Compound of どじょう (loach) + 汁 (soup). The word どじょう itself is of uncertain origin, possibly from mimetic or dialectal roots.