So many Japanese dishes I can find in my country but no good Gyudon.
Ahhh, can’t wait to try one again when I go to Japan again.
Pianomanos
FYI, once you add beaten egg like that, the name changes from “gyu-don” to “tanin-don.” (“Tanin-don” means unrelated bowl, because cows and chicken eggs are unrelated, as opposed to “oyako-don,” which means mother-and-child bowl.) Note that adding an onsen egg on top of a gyu-don does not change the name.
The general technique of adding beaten egg to bind cooked ingredients together, whether you put that on rice or not, is called “tamago toji.” So you could call this dish “gyu tamago toji don” or “tamago toji gyu-don,” if you don’t want to deal with the weird sense of humor behind the name “tanin-don.”
Edit: I’m ashamed to admit I’ve never been to Taiwan. If I order “gyu-don” in Taiwan, is this normally what I would get?
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So many Japanese dishes I can find in my country but no good Gyudon.
Ahhh, can’t wait to try one again when I go to Japan again.
FYI, once you add beaten egg like that, the name changes from “gyu-don” to “tanin-don.” (“Tanin-don” means unrelated bowl, because cows and chicken eggs are unrelated, as opposed to “oyako-don,” which means mother-and-child bowl.) Note that adding an onsen egg on top of a gyu-don does not change the name.
The general technique of adding beaten egg to bind cooked ingredients together, whether you put that on rice or not, is called “tamago toji.” So you could call this dish “gyu tamago toji don” or “tamago toji gyu-don,” if you don’t want to deal with the weird sense of humor behind the name “tanin-don.”
Edit: I’m ashamed to admit I’ve never been to Taiwan. If I order “gyu-don” in Taiwan, is this normally what I would get?