Japanese Food Tips

A Japanese meal is often served as a main dish, side dishes, rice, and miso soup, each in a separate dish or small bowl. In a big bowl dish (donburi-mono) on the other hand, rice and the main dish are served together in a large bowl. The bowl is usually made of ceramic pottery. This donburi-mono style was first eaten by craftworkers begining sometime in the Edo Period (1603-1868) because it could be eaten in a short time. Then, it spread throughout Japan and currently is extremely popular among Japanese. The famous big bowl dishes are unadon (glaze-grilled eel bowl), gyudon (beef bowl), oyakodon (parent & child rice bowl), katsudon (pork cutlets bowl) and tendon (tempura bowl). Don means bowl in Japanese. We have links to all of these except unadon, so please check them out. If you come to Japan, why not try big bowl dishes?