Katsudon

Katsudon (カツ丼) is a popular Japanese food, a bowl of rice topped with a deep-fried pork cutlet, egg, vegetables, and condiments.

Katsudon and miso soup
Sauce katsudon in Tsuruga, Fukui
Restaurant location

The dish takes its name from the Japanese words tonkatsu (for pork cutlet) and donburi (for rice bowl dish)

It has become a modern tradition for Japanese students to eat katsudon the night before taking a major test or school entrance exam. This is because "katsu" is a homophone of the verb 勝つ katsu, meaning "to win" or "to be victorious". It is also a famous gag of Japanese police films: many people think that suspects will speak the truth with tears when they have eaten katsudon and are asked, "Did you ever think about how your mother feels about this?" Even nowadays, the gag of "We must eat katsudon while interrogating" is popular in Japanese films.[1]

Variations

Variations include sauce katsudon (with tonkatsu sauce), demi katsudon (with demi-glace and often green peas, a specialty of Okayama), shio-katsudon (with salt, another Okayama variety), shōyu-dare katsudon (with soy sauce, Niigata style), and miso-katsudon (a favorite in Nagoya). Beef (gyū-katsu) and chicken (oyakodon) can substitute for the pork. Katsukarē is a variation with curry sauce instead of the usual egg.[2]

  • In Isekai Shokudo light novel series, Katsudon is the favourite food of Lionel, a beastman who managed to become a gladiator champion from weekly eating Katsudon.
  • In Yuri on Ice anime series, Katsudon is the favourite dish of Yuri Katsuki,Victor Nikiforov also took great liking to Katsudon, calling it God food.
  • In Shogeki no Soma, Soma Yukihira cook home made Katsudon using beef to substitue pork during a cooking competition.

See also

References
  1. Archived 2015-02-22 at the Wayback Machine - 岡山県警察 採用情報
  2. Lonely Planet (1 February 2014). The World's Best Spicy Food: Where to Find it & How to Make it. Lonely Planet. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-74360-421-2.
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