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Also known as chicken and egg bowl

, literally "parent-and-child donburi", is a donburi, or Japanese rice bowl dish, in which chicken, egg, sliced scallion (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.

Key facts

Food.name
Oyakodon
Food.image
Oyakodon 003.jpg
Food.caption
Oyakodon
Food.type
Donburi
Food.country
Japan
Food.year
1891
Food.main_ingredient
Chicken, egg, and sliced scallion
Food.minor_ingredient
Soy sauce and stock
Food.serving_size
100 g
Food.no_recipes
false

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, literally "parent-and-child donburi", is a donburi, or Japanese rice bowl dish, in which chicken, egg, sliced scallion (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 in 1884. The advertisement mentions dishes named oyakojōdon, oyakonamidon and oyakochūdon, possibly referring to different sizes.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “oyakodon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.