also: うなぎちゃづけ
broiled eel on rice with green tea poured over
A dish of grilled eel over rice with hot green tea or dashi poured on top, a variation of chazuke.
See also: 茶漬け
I tried Nagoya's famous unagi chazuke for the first time.
Unagi chazuke is eaten by pouring tea over it for a light finish.
ひつまぶし is another Nagoya eel dish where eel is chopped and mixed with rice, often eaten in multiple ways including with broth; 鰻茶漬け is specifically the chazuke style.
Standard kanji spelling using 鰻 (eel) and 茶漬け (chazuke).
Abbreviated spelling without the final け; less common but still seen.
Mixed kana-kanji spelling; うなぎ is often written in kana.
Contracted kana spelling using うな instead of うなぎ; colloquial or abbreviated.
Compound of 鰻 (unagi, 'eel') and 茶漬け (chazuke, 'rice with tea poured over').