What is donburi (beef donburi)?

The "丼" in donburi is pronounced dong (丼), or "牛丼(dōng)饭".

Don has only two pronunciations in the dictionary, jǐng and dǎn, and it is wrong to call it "cow's bowl of rice". Ox donburi rice from Japan, pronounced DONBURI (丼ぶりどんぶり), donburi simply means "covered in rice". Doing said: covered porcelain bowl containing rice, in the bowl of two-thirds of the rice, and then spread other ingredients.

Origins

The history of beef rice goes back to the Meiji era, when beef consumption became popular with the Meiji Restoration, when Japanese people took beef as a symbol of civilization and enlightenment. Beef nabe was the most popular dish in the Tokyo area at that time, and beef rice was a by-product of beef nabe. The Japanese preferred rice, and rice was paired with sweet-tasting shabu-shabu beef to create a beef rice dish that was fat and lean and delicious.

Yoshinoya opened its first store in 1899 near the Tsukiji Market in Tokyo, Japan, and over the next 100 years spread the chain all over the world, quickly capturing the market with its guidelines of being delicious, inexpensive and fast. Yoshinoya was the first beef and rice specialty restaurant in Japan. Others, such as Matsuya and Ekibenya came late, not starting until 1968 and 1982 after World War II.