What comes to mind when you think of a Japanese food? Sushi? Ramen? How about a bowl of rice?
Rice for Japanese
Japanese people love rice. Japanese are very particular about rice. There are so many kinds of rice in Japan, and we care very much about how it’s steamed. Some people put some ice when they steam rice, and some people put some olive oil before steaming rice. In addition, we are nit-picky about a rice cooker. Steamed rice tastes very different depends on a rice, a water temperature and a rice cooker. Japanese food is cooked for going well with steamed rice!
A bowl of rice
One of the Japanese foods, we have a bowl of rice but there are so many kinds of bowl of rice in Japan. For example, tempura rice bowl, beef bowl or chicken and egg rice bowl.
Tempura is deep-fried vegetables after battering. Tempura on top of rice seasoned with some sauce. It’s a tempura rice bowl called TenDon in Japanese.
Beef bowl is a bowl of rice topped with cooked beef and sliced onion in savory soy sauce. You usually eat it with a pickled ginger.
Chicken and egg rice bowl is also a bowl of rice topped with stir-fried chicken and egg cooked until almost runny, but not quite seasoned with a sweet and salt sauce.
Anyway, why Japanese people so much love a bowl of rice dish and why are there so many kinds of rice bowl foods in Japan? Because Japanese people work so hard and it’s not so much time to have lunch, and it doesn’t take so much time to eat a bowl of rice food for lunch. That’s why.
Katsu Don かつどん
Katsu Don is also rice.
Katsu is a breaded pork cutlet. Thick sliced pork putted flour, and dip into beaten egg. Then cover it with bread crumbs, and deep fried. Katsu don is a rice bowl topped with the Katsu cooked with thin sliced onion and egg. The egg is also almost runny seasoned with sweet soy sauce.
Katsuya かつや
We have Katsu Don restaurants. One of them is Katsuya かつや. It’s chained restaurants so there are many Katsuya throughout Japan. They serve freshly cooked Katsu Don and it’s very crispy and hot! It’s so much delicious! They have set menu and many other deep-fried food. All food in Katsuya is freshly cooked and tasty! A miso soup they serve is contained many ingredients like carrot, scallion, tofu, and it tastes simple Japanese homemade food!
Summary
A bowl of rice is used to be a food for busy work people, but it’s not now. People eat it in an easy pace, and many people takeout it to eat it at home with their family. Also a bowl of rice food is easy to cook so that Japanese mother cook it at home many times. Of course it is very delicious!
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