, literally "parent-and-child donburi", is a ''
donburi
is a Japanese "rice-bowl dish" consisting of fish, meat, vegetables or other ingredients simmered together and served over rice. ''Donburi'' meals are usually served in oversized rice bowls which are also called ''donburi''. If one needs to ...
'', or Japanese rice bowl dish, in which chicken, egg, sliced
scallion
Scallions (also known as spring onions or green onions) are vegetables derived from various species in the genus '' Allium''. Scallions generally have a milder taste than most onions and their close relatives include garlic, shallot, leek, c ...
(or sometimes regular onions), and other ingredients are all simmered together in a kind of soup that is made with soy sauce and stock, and then served on top of a large bowl of rice. The name of the dish is a
poetic reflection of both chicken and egg being used in the dish.
History
The origins of the dish are unknown. The earliest written mention of the terms "oyako" and "don" in combination is in a newspaper advertisement for a restaurant in
Kobe
Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whi ...
in 1884. The advertisement mentions dishes named ''oyakojōdon, oyakonamidon'' and ''oyakochūdon,'' possibly referring to different sizes.
Variations
Several other Japanese dishes pun on the parent-and-child theme of ''oyakodon''. , literally "stranger bowl",
is otherwise identical but replaces the chicken with
beef
Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle (''Bos taurus'').
In prehistoric times, humankind hunted aurochs and later domesticated them. Since that time, numerous breeds of cattle have been bred specifically for the quality or quantit ...
or
pork
Pork is the culinary name for the meat of the domestic pig (''Sus domesticus''). It is the most commonly consumed meat worldwide, with evidence of pig husbandry dating back to 5000 BCE.
Pork is eaten both freshly cooked and preserved ...
. A dish of
salmon
Salmon () is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family Salmonidae, which are native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (genus '' Salmo'') and North Pacific (genus '' Onco ...
and salmon
roe
Roe ( ) or hard roe is the fully ripe internal egg masses in the ovaries, or the released external egg masses, of fish and certain marine animals such as shrimp, scallop, sea urchins and squid. As a seafood, roe is used both as a cooked in ...
served raw over rice is known as (salmon parent-child donburi).
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See also
*
Gyūdon
, also known as , is a Japanese dish consisting of a bowl of rice topped with beef and onion simmered in a mildly sweet sauce flavored with ''dashi'' (fish and seaweed stock), soy sauce and ''mirin'' (sweet rice wine). It may sometimes also be ...
, beef on rice
*
Katsudon
is a popular Japanese food, a bowl of rice topped with a deep-fried breaded pork cutlet,
egg, vegetables, and condiments.
The dish takes its name from the Japanese words ''tonkatsu'' (for pork cutlet) and ''donburi'' (for ''rice bowl dish'') ...
, pork cutlets on rice
*"
Mother and Child Reunion", a
Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor whose career has spanned six decades. He is one of the most acclaimed songwriters in popular music, both as a solo artist and as half of folk roc ...
song that takes its title from a similar chicken and egg dish
References
* Tsuji, Shizuo (1980). ''Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art''. New York: Kodansha International/USA. .
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