The ginger helps remove the oil and any unpleasant smell. Shoga also improves the appetite. This pork dish is typical Japanese home cooking. It is usually accompanied by rice and miso soup. In the picture you see sauteed *moyashi, but shredded cabbage is also often used. This is the second most popular Japanese pork dish after *tonkatsu.
The recipe for shogayaki occurs already in the early Taisho period, but only became popular thanks to delivery menus of restaurants in the immediate postwar years because it can be prepared very quickly. After that, it was also added to catered lunch boxes and quickly became a menu for eating out as well as for home cooking.
Shogayaki is usually eaten hot, but can also be enjoyed cold as an addition to bento boxes.
Photo own work.
Japanese Food Dictionary