Asparagus Namban

A favourite Japanese dish of mine is chicken namban, a weird combination of West meets East - a tempura chicken in a sweet and sour soy marinade, with an egg salad served on top, a dish which apparently arrived in Japan with Portuguese traders. It occurred to me that this Japanese version of an egg salad would be great on top of asparagus; it is so addictive, and works better than a warm béchamel as the cold egg mixture and the piping hot asparagus complement one another. Get ready for some