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title: Oyakodon (chicken and egg over rice)
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journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/kyoto-machiya/
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# Oyakodon (chicken and egg over rice)

Cook the local flavors once more　/　Kyoto City, Kyoto

Chicken and onion simmered in broth, bound with egg and served over rice. In the manga "Maiko-san chi no Makanai-san" (Aiko Koyama, Shogakukan), set in a house where maiko live in Kyoto's geisha district, the heroine Kiyo, who could not become a maiko herself, makes oyakodon for the house and it is such a hit that she becomes its makanai, the one who cooks every day. I made that oyakodon in the tiled kitchen of a Kyoto machiya.

## Ingredients

- Cooked rice
- Chicken
- Onion
- Eggs
- Simmering broth
- Mitsuba (Japanese wild parsley)

## How I made it

1. Slice the onion thin
2. Simmer the chicken and onion in broth in a pan
3. Pour in beaten egg, cover, and let it set soft
4. Spoon over rice and scatter mitsuba on top

## This moment in the journey: Oyakodon and a flower-fu soup

I put the lid on and waited a moment for the egg to set soft. When I lifted it, the chicken and onion had soaked up the broth, and the egg lay over them, barely set.

Into a red lacquered bowl went a pink lump of flower-shaped fu, wheat gluten, and then hot water. The color loosened, and carrot and other bits floated out: a clear soup. I spooned the chicken and egg over rice and scattered mitsuba on top. Breakfast in the machiya was ready.

![Oyakodon topped with mitsuba, and the flower-fu soup](https://karigurashijourney.com/img/kyoto-machiya/s26-1200.jpg)
- Sources: https://press.moviewalker.jp/news/article/1116994

Read this scene in the full journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/kyoto-machiya/