(EN) Asami Nagai, Cities claim signature dishes cooked up in navy galleys, su runker_room.tripod.com, Yomiuri Shinbun, 5 febbraio 2000. URL consultato l'8 maggio 2016 (archiviato dall'url originale il 22 febbraio 2012).
«As it happens, Togo had studied naval science in Britain from 1871 to 1878, so Shimizu reasoned he must have eaten beef stew occasionally. «We concocted a story that Togo ordered the cooks to fix something similar to beef stew,» he said.»