@@DarkQueenHelba - You gotta love Marie and her literal Japanese way of saying “beefsteak”. I’m not kidding, just look at her wiki page about her saying “fsteak” for a reason.😂🥩
One of the lines from the original game that still haunts me was "even though all that time & effort, you still can't see the rice" or something similar to it; which is accurately shown here, even with 7 people
And to top it off completing the challenge is literally pointless unless you’re on PlayStation or something for the “trophies/achievements” but even then it’s pointless…supposedly you can save….do the challenge for trophy and reload or something But it makes your meal “free” and then increases a bunch of stats that you had to max out to complete it in the first place? What’s the point!? It’s a waste of your free time for literally no reason I heard that all books at least gives you an accessory for reading them all (aside from trophies/achievements on compatible systems)
We actually have something really similar here in Finland. Instead of beef we use thinly sliced reindeer, and fry it with the onions, some black pepper, allspice, butter and a bit of water for the broth. Serve that over mashed potatoes with some lingonberry jam and pickles and you've made "poronkäristys" ("fried reindeer").
Alvin: "I've decided to interpret the recipe (beef bowl) similar to dishes like gyudon" Beef bowl: literally a word-for-word English translation of the Japanese word gyudon.
Reminds of how here in Brazil we have Hot Dog and Cachorro Quenten, with the later being a literal translation. But Cachorro Quente as much more content, would say enough to be a full meal on its own
“It takes Understanding to accept it as a whole! Knowledge to set the proper pace! Courage to attack the mountain of meat and Dedication to keep on eating! All these skills are needed to finish off the MEGA BEEF BOWL!” Quote from Yu Narukami
That is... one way to do make gyudon... haha. I am so happy that my video helped you Alvin! It looks delicious but definitely share with some friends ... maybe you can raise your confidant level with them if you share?
I felt slightly emotionally Hurt when he used White onions instead of Red ones, but aside from that it does seem pretty accurate to how it's usually made.
My favorite part is how at the end he talks about how nothing is better than the feeling of feeding friends and loved ones. That is LITERALLY Persona morales
You sharing the Mega Beef Bowl with your friends makes me think it could make a fun group meal at a restaurant, just a giant beef bowl for 3-4 people to share.
For Vegan dashi, substitute the fish ingredients with sun dried Daikon. I also add just a bit of mushroom based oyster sauce for dishes with richer broths. Being allergic to seafood sucks, but at least there is a reasonable work-around for hotpot and ramen.
What an unexpected episode. Brings me back to the times when I would try my darndest optimizing each day maxing all attribute and SL... Now that I think about it, I still have the game on Vita.
I just noticed that the backing music that plays during that scene in the anime is the same one that plays when you unlock a new Social Link in the game. Yu has “formed a bond of understanding” with the beef bowl.
Seeing that the Mega Beef Bowl still lives to this day makes me so happy ^ ^ It cracked me up so much how the game rationalized the stats required to take the bowl on. The bowl inspires me to increases these stats in myself, and thus, inspires me to become a better person XDD
Fun Fact as a chef: Alvin actually mistook the egg part. It's not a sunny egg like though. It's an onsen egg that was Sous Vide till is cooked but the eggwhite is still runny.
Gyudon can be topped with eggs in many different ways, including raw egg, onsen tamago, sunny side up, soft/medium boiled, or lightly scrambled egg cooked at the last minute with the beef. It's perfectly legit to have a fried egg on top.
Not even a minute after I clicked on this channel to watch an "Anime with Alvin" episode I missed, I'm greeted by this. I feel all my social stats increasing just by watching this.
@@Landis963 both actually. In the game/anime it’s commonly shown on the side, and atlas released an official Leblanc curry recipe containing coffee when they released persona 5 strikers. I’ve actually made the Leblanc curry from this recipe card and it was one of the best thing I have ever eaten, highly recommend
"Water up to the first indentation on the pointer finger" Somewhere out there, Uncle Roger is nodding approvingly. But not too approvingly, he wouldn't want you to get confused and think he's proud of you or something.
“It takes understanding to accept it as a whole, knowledge to set the proper pace, courage to attack the mountain of meat, and dedication to keep on eating. All these skills are needed to finish the MEGA BEEF BOWL!” - Yu Narukami.
Man this is amazing! Fitting for Alvin too since i know he loves to make big portion foods quite often! Thx you for trying to replicate Mega Beef Bowl ;)
I like the idea that everyone in the babies universe makes *everything* from scratch, they make their clothes, build their apartment, produce their own shows
Such an iconic challenge to take on. This might as well be a huge party dish for how much it takes to whittle down even a tiny bit of it! Clearing this in the game is such a rush.
6:20 "... and the comfort of the rice..." You meant the comfort you have knowing that the rice is down there somewhere? Because you certainly didn't taste any.
It’s the 25th Anniversary of Persona, man. I just wish that there would be a time where Persona 4 Golden or even Persona 3 FES would be remade with Persona 5 Royal/Catherine Full Body’s engine.😭💙⭐️🌹 The beef bowl here looks monstrous but delicious, thoooooo. Even Chie would approve.😋🥩👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼
P4G is a wonderful gem on PC, played it through 4 times ànd working on 5. (Yes, I have a problem.) I just wish P3:FES or another version of P3 would either re- release on more platforms or get a remake.
Gyudon is one of my favorites! Every time I visit Japan, I have to go eat it at least a few times. There's not a place I know of in my area to go and get it, so having this recipe warms my heart!
I think the official recipe that was posted by PlayStation Japan on Twitter calls for a raw egg yolk rather than a cooked sunny side up egg. But your version looks to be accurate to the look of it in the anime adaptation. That said, I actually suggested this a few days ago thanks to the recent tweet mentioned earlier with the recipe, talk about perfect timing (thanks for using the English dub, by the way). And since we’re on the topic of Persona, I hope you tackle Sojiro Sakura & Ren Amamiya/Joker’s curry from Persona 5 (Royal) as well as Ren/Joker’s recipes from Persona 5 Strikers at some point.
Japan has much safer food handling standards so it's much less risky to eat raw egg. I don't think I ever could anywhere, but I definitely wouldn't try it with commercially available eggs in the US.
@@internalizedhappyness9774 ;___; I don't make enough cash to get all that meat lol that be like a whole weeks worth of food. I do make myself beef bowls tho just smaller scale ;)
Between Anime w/ Alvin, Basics, Botched, Pruebalo, The Fundakendalls and of course Binging, the culinary universe is really coming together!! Definitely one of the BEST channels on youtube.
Love this! Go to Yoshinoya’s in Japan and you can get a RAW egg on top. Usually you also adorn with red ginger (benishoga 紅生姜), and chili (shichimi 七味).
Episode idea: Curry of life from Naruto. Every Sunday I always end up cooking chicken curry and rice for my family (one of my boys dubbed it the curry of life even though it probably is far from spicy enough for the title 🤣) and it always a hit. I would love to see it brought to life and maybe try to make it myself since I am kind of cheating and using curry roux blocks 😁
I made this a year ago and I'm still working my way through the meat mountain
Hey chef! Love your content!
@@hilotakenaka thanks! I appreciate you.
cool
Portal to the meat dimension.
Dear diary...
Yosuke: “I don’t think any of us actually ordered this.”
Chie: *Sweats nervously*
Thats just the meat sweats.
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeef...
Fsteak!
@@DarkQueenHelba "Excellent job, Chie."
@@DarkQueenHelba - You gotta love Marie and her literal Japanese way of saying “beefsteak”. I’m not kidding, just look at her wiki page about her saying “fsteak” for a reason.😂🥩
Alvin's not only improving all his stats at once, but also probably improving a lot of social links in this one episode
Yea, easily the best pickup the Babish Universe has gotten yet.
He has to get his courage to max and progress the Andrew Rhea social link before he can appear in a mainline binging with babish episode
🎶
🎶
If only he could improve his skill and make it worth watching him. This channel has gone so far down in quality I'm glad I stopped watching years ago.
"You can never regret a beef bowl. That's what I always say."
--The beef bowl guy from Yakuza: Like a Dragon
The greatest words to say to a man about to go to prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
I never expected to see a Yakuza comment in here.
@@abgadi1305 Always expect a Yakuza comment.
@@abgadi1305 Everything is a Yakuza comment to the trained Eye(?)
Speaking of like a dragon I kind of want to see them do PEKING DUCK.
2:50
The trick to not crying is to not form an emotional attachment to the onions.
Or just have a sharp knife
Or wear contacts. Or goggles.
@@madam-mint Yeah, swimming goggles are wonderful when cutting onions.
Or Teddies joke glasses
One of the lines from the original game that still haunts me was "even though all that time & effort, you still can't see the rice" or something similar to it; which is accurately shown here, even with 7 people
">You begin to suspect that your bowl is a portal to the meat dimension."
And to top it off completing the challenge is literally pointless unless you’re on PlayStation or something for the “trophies/achievements” but even then it’s pointless…supposedly you can save….do the challenge for trophy and reload or something
But it makes your meal “free” and then increases a bunch of stats that you had to max out to complete it in the first place? What’s the point!? It’s a waste of your free time for literally no reason
I heard that all books at least gives you an accessory for reading them all (aside from trophies/achievements on compatible systems)
@@V.U.4six well to be fair eating it before having max stats is pretty useful lol
These lines are always so funny when I challenge the bowl
@@V.U.4six bro didn't know you could do it before maxing stats, lol
We actually have something really similar here in Finland. Instead of beef we use thinly sliced reindeer, and fry it with the onions, some black pepper, allspice, butter and a bit of water for the broth. Serve that over mashed potatoes with some lingonberry jam and pickles and you've made "poronkäristys" ("fried reindeer").
I want to go to there
In the US this is what we call “regular food”, unnecessarily huge portions of foods not many people want! YEAAH!
I'm thirty years old and every time someone mentions reindeer I have to remind myself "Oh right, reindeer are real."
That sounds fantastic
That sounds delicious.
As a person that has always wanted to try this.....Alvin is a champion amoung men
Among us
@@wickedratman6121 💀
Amogus
Amogus
Amongus
I never thought this would happen! I’ve always wanted to see what a real MEGA BEEF BOWL looks like in real life
i would like to eat it in real life
@@thebat9301Me too
Staying on the theme of Persona, you should do Sojiro's Curry from Persona 5.
Or the universe burger.
@@moralrepeat.9658 Very sudden and not expected
Along with the perfect coffee pairing.
The most iconic!
Mystery food X
This bowl looks like a portal to the Meat Dimension…
You still can't see the rice ...
meat dungeon
@@justanobadi6655 *cue existential crisis*
@@ryo634 that would be chie's dungeon if she got thrown into the tv instead of yukiko.
I love how even after everyone started eating at the bowl, it didn't look noticeably smaller XD
They're all still on their first playthrough
Alvin: "I've decided to interpret the recipe (beef bowl) similar to dishes like gyudon"
Beef bowl: literally a word-for-word English translation of the Japanese word gyudon.
To be fair theres really only 2 words in beefbowl
@@Frostedlyre yes, the literal word for word translation is gyu (beef) and don (bowl)
I mean, it’s the MEGA beef bowl, so he’s not entirely wrong.
Reminds of how here in Brazil we have Hot Dog and Cachorro Quenten, with the later being a literal translation. But Cachorro Quente as much more content, would say enough to be a full meal on its own
@@ricardomiles2957 just as my Indian friend was really confused why we have a certain kind of tea called Chai Tea
This is surely the most successful host switch up in TH-cam history. Alvin is an absolutely amazing vibe match for this channel
"This is just steak and eggs, but with more steps."
Jokes aside, would love to make this as a meal prep. Probably last a month!
despite being ethnic food it would pass the swanson test
@@ernstschmidt4725 replace the rice with mashed potatoes and you'd be right
@@879PC and dashi with beef stock, mirin with wine, and soy sauce with Worcestershire sauce. Mightn’t be half bad 🤔
@@879PC Nah, put the beef on a hoagie roll with some cheese and you have yourself a Japanese cheesesteak.
@@879PC Or hash browns.
That final minute is just sixty seconds of me whispering "hes gotta stop soon. Hes gotta stop soon. Hes gotta-"
“It takes Understanding to accept it as a whole! Knowledge to set the proper pace! Courage to attack the mountain of meat and Dedication to keep on eating! All these skills are needed to finish off the MEGA BEEF BOWL!”
Quote from Yu Narukami
Voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch 😌
Thank you johnny
Yu Chad-rukami
To be fair he the only person can finish this big bowl
That is... one way to do make gyudon... haha. I am so happy that my video helped you Alvin! It looks delicious but definitely share with some friends ... maybe you can raise your confidant level with them if you share?
*gets flashbacks from Kinnikuman*
I felt slightly emotionally Hurt when he used White onions instead of Red ones, but aside from that it does seem pretty accurate to how it's usually made.
You mean Social Link? You know... Because this is Persona 4?
My favorite part is how at the end he talks about how nothing is better than the feeling of feeding friends and loved ones. That is LITERALLY Persona morales
You sharing the Mega Beef Bowl with your friends makes me think it could make a fun group meal at a restaurant, just a giant beef bowl for 3-4 people to share.
For Vegan dashi, substitute the fish ingredients with sun dried Daikon.
I also add just a bit of mushroom based oyster sauce for dishes with richer broths.
Being allergic to seafood sucks, but at least there is a reasonable work-around for hotpot and ramen.
Thanks for pointing this out. Seafood messes with me bad, so I discouraged from trying this out. But with your suggestion I might be able to. Thanks!
This dish looks amazing. As Chie would say, its a one way ticket to the meat dimension!!
A one way ticket to the hospital lol
@@DefinitelyNotAFerret worth it
@@Flxdup you only live once right 😂
I love how Power of Heart, the song that plays when a Social Link is established, plays when he evaluates it
Finger method for rice and a rice cooker? Uncle Roger would be proud.
Why
But also disappointed, the water isn't clear
It's even Uncle Roger's favorite Zojirushi brand rice cooker. Mans was definitely fiending for that "fuiyoh!"
i want a timelapse of that whole bowl just getting absolutely demolished and eaten
Remember when we order this while raining just to increase our stats?
Forever and always. Best way to rank up for that Max social link run.
*Yes,Just Yes*
Still do that.
already in the final dungeon to facing Izanami so yeah still remember it
The way I felt so accomplished when I finished it...I actually went out with some buddies to get some gyudon after it.
alvin's episodes are such a soothing, relaxing counterpoint to botched's craziness lol and I love them both equally
Alvin’s definitely got that audiobook/narrator voice 😌
What an unexpected episode. Brings me back to the times when I would try my darndest optimizing each day maxing all attribute and SL... Now that I think about it, I still have the game on Vita.
bro you better play it
Check out the remaster on Steam, too; there's a Community Enhancement Pack that may make it feel fresh again
I just noticed that the backing music that plays during that scene in the anime is the same one that plays when you unlock a new Social Link in the game. Yu has “formed a bond of understanding” with the beef bowl.
Seeing that the Mega Beef Bowl still lives to this day makes me so happy ^ ^ It cracked me up so much how the game rationalized the stats required to take the bowl on. The bowl inspires me to increases these stats in myself, and thus, inspires me to become a better person XDD
Fun Fact as a chef: Alvin actually mistook the egg part. It's not a sunny egg like though. It's an onsen egg that was Sous Vide till is cooked but the eggwhite is still runny.
Gyudon can be topped with eggs in many different ways, including raw egg, onsen tamago, sunny side up, soft/medium boiled, or lightly scrambled egg cooked at the last minute with the beef. It's perfectly legit to have a fried egg on top.
don´t think they had a onsen near the place
I think the anime version looks more like a sunny side up egg but the game version looks more like an onsen egg
6:55 Andrew eating all the scraps dropped on the table 😂 same energy from last month when he stole the burnt bits of the croissant from Alvin
Not even a minute after I clicked on this channel to watch an "Anime with Alvin" episode I missed, I'm greeted by this. I feel all my social stats increasing just by watching this.
"They did it wrong. They did it wrong. It's too much rice. I want to watch more anime with Alvin." -my wife
Thank you for using the dub. Johnny's acting always makes my day.
JYB helped solidify Yu as "the Chad Narukami."
Persona 4 is one of the greatest games of all time, thanks for making this.
You should make sojiro's curry from persona 5
YES. CURRY AND COFFEE PERFECTION!
Yes. I'd love to see how Alvin tackles that. (Is the coffee in the curry, or served alongside? I've forgotten.)
@@Landis963 both actually. In the game/anime it’s commonly shown on the side, and atlas released an official Leblanc curry recipe containing coffee when they released persona 5 strikers. I’ve actually made the Leblanc curry from this recipe card and it was one of the best thing I have ever eaten, highly recommend
@@Landis963 I'm pretty sure Atlus released the actual recipe, jist don't remember exactly whats in it.
Seconded
I never thought I'd see the day when someone would actually try and tackle the mega beef bowl.
I know someone that might be able to beat it solo, and their father definitely could before their accident.
I want to try this meat bowl, but a little smaller. Still feel like I can't finish it with the bowl size reduction.
I think I just can eat about ¼ from it. 😂
I wonder if i can finish at my "worst"
I'm a big eater but it's only like 3 to 4 normal portion at best
"Water up to the first indentation on the pointer finger"
Somewhere out there, Uncle Roger is nodding approvingly. But not too approvingly, he wouldn't want you to get confused and think he's proud of you or something.
You're gonna be transported to the meat dimension
YESSSSSSS IVE BEEN WAITING FOR A PERSONA VIDEO
0:11 close your eyes and listen to lelouch talk about a beef bowl
I love the Persona 4 anime soooo much. Really happy to see it on the channel!
“It takes understanding to accept it as a whole, knowledge to set the proper pace, courage to attack the mountain of meat, and dedication to keep on eating. All these skills are needed to finish the MEGA BEEF BOWL!” - Yu Narukami.
I like how he says “sauce pan” instead of “sauce pin”
Man this is amazing! Fitting for Alvin too since i know he loves to make big portion foods quite often! Thx you for trying to replicate Mega Beef Bowl ;)
Since next week is Grilled cheese sandwich day, make the sandwich from Craig of the Creek episode, "Snow Place Like Home"
Today's video probably took a week to complete.
No
I like the idea that everyone in the babies universe makes *everything* from scratch, they make their clothes, build their apartment, produce their own shows
Such an iconic challenge to take on. This might as well be a huge party dish for how much it takes to whittle down even a tiny bit of it!
Clearing this in the game is such a rush.
6:20 "... and the comfort of the rice..." You meant the comfort you have knowing that the rice is down there somewhere? Because you certainly didn't taste any.
This is so cool, hope to see you make more persona dishes
0:28 “It’s raining today…”
*Backside of the TV intensifies*
If only Johnny Yong Bosch had been able to stop by & sample this masterpiece....
"And now that the fish is decapitated, it's time to let them swim"
-Alvin
I am so happy that Alvin is basically officially part of the BCU. Always love his content.
It’s the 25th Anniversary of Persona, man. I just wish that there would be a time where Persona 4 Golden or even Persona 3 FES would be remade with Persona 5 Royal/Catherine Full Body’s engine.😭💙⭐️🌹
The beef bowl here looks monstrous but delicious, thoooooo. Even Chie would approve.😋🥩👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼
I wish Persona Q was made for consoles/PC with Persona 5 Strikers battle system and Persona 5 Royal mechanics.
P4G is a wonderful gem on PC, played it through 4 times ànd working on 5. (Yes, I have a problem.) I just wish P3:FES or another version of P3 would either re- release on more platforms or get a remake.
persona 4 golden is just about perfect and doesn't need any remake, but persona 3 is desperately in need of one
@@ralphthejedimaster I mean why wouldnt you want persona 4 enhanced and on new consoles?
I'd rather get a new game than a remake honestly.
I just finished Persona 4 Golden a week or two ago so this is an utter delight. I was wondering if / when Babish would try the Mega Beef Bowl!
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!
Gyudon is one of my favorites! Every time I visit Japan, I have to go eat it at least a few times. There's not a place I know of in my area to go and get it, so having this recipe warms my heart!
Your consistency and quality of content never disappoints!
Shut up bot
Bot
1:42 I am so use to seeing that in subtitles on his channel
I think the official recipe that was posted by PlayStation Japan on Twitter calls for a raw egg yolk rather than a cooked sunny side up egg. But your version looks to be accurate to the look of it in the anime adaptation.
That said, I actually suggested this a few days ago thanks to the recent tweet mentioned earlier with the recipe, talk about perfect timing (thanks for using the English dub, by the way). And since we’re on the topic of Persona, I hope you tackle Sojiro Sakura & Ren Amamiya/Joker’s curry from Persona 5 (Royal) as well as Ren/Joker’s recipes from Persona 5 Strikers at some point.
gyudon is always served with raw egg, with just barely cloudy whites slightly cooked by the heat of the meat and rice.
Japan has much safer food handling standards so it's much less risky to eat raw egg. I don't think I ever could anywhere, but I definitely wouldn't try it with commercially available eggs in the US.
@@redreboot483 it's not raw egg, it's LTLT egg, basically sous vide eggs, they call them onsen tamago
@@99897767 most places serve raw egg
@@redreboot483 if it's served with raw egg, it is usually only the egg yolk, if there are cloudy whites they would be chilled onsen eggs
Ive been saying you should make this for YEARS and its finally happening. So happy
YES YES YES I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOREVER
Thanks for making my childhood dream a reality. Since I 1st played P4G I always wanted to test myself with the Mega Beef Bowl!
Sojiro Sakura’s curry and coffee from Persona 5, please.
I'm a vegetarian, yet here I am because this channel is top-shelf stuff.
Watching this on a rainy day is making me more happy then I ever thought I could be on a rainy day.
I tried this before. Couldn’t finish it, but I felt smarter, braver, and more diligent after trying.
I FUCKEN LOVE YA ALVIN - THANKS FOR A PERSONA VIDEO!!
This dish is hear attack scrumptous. Adterneating that, Inwill have a one way tickrt to heaven in the literal sense.
I learned the finger trick from the anime Sweetness and Lightning, it has helped me make many perfect servings of fluffy but not too sticky rice
I appreciate you Alvin and the whole babish culinary universe. Thank you guys.
As a person living through food shortages in the Shanghai lockdown, this video is interesting to say the least
I love the part in the anime when Yu just starts giving an inspirational speech about eating
It's actually a game reference. You need all of your social stats to be at max to eat it
Chie and Kinnikuman approve.
Now we need nanako's "chocolate"
I don’t think they have access to chemical weapons
Or Yukiko's Curry
Alvin has my favorite content on this channel currently, so much fun..
I hope you made this on a rainy day! This looks amazing ❤
I didn't even realise it was another guy doing the show until half way in, the whole crew of this channel truly capture the style babish went for
Man that looks crazy!
Hope Alvin creates the Mystery Food X
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!
Can't believe this video was uploaded right as I was in the middle of my P4 hyperfixation, truly a perfect coincidence
Mmm I've actually always wanted to make this myself.
Do it just make sure to film it and put it on TH-cam.
@@internalizedhappyness9774 ;___; I don't make enough cash to get all that meat lol that be like a whole weeks worth of food. I do make myself beef bowls tho just smaller scale ;)
How many days did you wait for it to rain?
6:08 This needs to be blurred
Between Anime w/ Alvin, Basics, Botched, Pruebalo, The Fundakendalls and of course Binging, the culinary universe is really coming together!! Definitely one of the BEST channels on youtube.
"we are going to be using this dashi for future videos" and this tub of dashi was never heard from again
Has alvin ever done food vids on the yakuza games? All this beef bowl talk has me thinking of the fancy restaurant stuffs those games has 😋😋👌
Can you make Taiyaki from My Hero Academia?
Please make Jessie's Pokepuff from Pokemon episode, "Performing with Fiery Charm"
No
@@Fartucus yes
"but it is quite cloudy" he says at 4:57
yes, with a chance of meatballs
I'd like to imagine the meat dimension is a place that contains all types of meat imaginable, perfectly cooked, always hot and never spoils.
Love this! Go to Yoshinoya’s in Japan and you can get a RAW egg on top. Usually you also adorn with red ginger (benishoga 紅生姜), and chili (shichimi 七味).
Episode idea: Curry of life from Naruto. Every Sunday I always end up cooking chicken curry and rice for my family (one of my boys dubbed it the curry of life even though it probably is far from spicy enough for the title 🤣) and it always a hit. I would love to see it brought to life and maybe try to make it myself since I am kind of cheating and using curry roux blocks 😁
"Learning to create the Mega Beef Bowl as increased your UNDERSTANDING"
If you sprinkle the onions with a little bit of cold water before/during slicing, it will reduce the amount of gas that rises to irritate your eyes.
sheeesh
sheeesh
sheeesh