, 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

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(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

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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

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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

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. A dish of

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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 cooking, c ...

served raw over rice is known as (salmon parent-child donburi). File:oyakodon_by_-puamelia-.jpg File:Oyakodon_002.jpg File:Oyakodon_set_by_machu_in_Karuizawa,_Nagano.jpg

References

* Tsuji, Shizuo (1980). ''Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art''. New York: Kodansha International/USA. .

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