The first time I encountered that dish, while staying in a youth hostel during my first visit to Japan, I have to admit I gagged a bit, but I grew to really love it. I forgot to say that a dash of soy sauce is added to the scrambled raw egg and natto, and the dish is good with that condiment of bits of dried seaweed, egg and other items sprinkled over the bowl of rice, or those thin strips of nori seaweed. Also, the heat of the rice half cooks the egg, so it’s really not like eating a raw egg. When I lived in Vancouver I could easily get any Japanese food I wanted, including natto, at a Japanese supermarket that was walking distance from my home.

Thanks for stopping by, Perry! I hope you can find some natto where you live. That’s pretty hard-core, eating it with raw egg over rice.