donburi

[dohn-boo-ree, dahn-]

noun

plural

donburi, donburis 

1. Japanese Cooking.,  a Japanese dish consisting of a large bowl of rice topped with meat, seafood, vegetables, or a combination of these, and finished with a sauce.

2. the bowl in which such a dish is served.

Example Sentences

Hyun’s sashimi donburi, with fish glowing atop a bowl of sushi rice — his shari veers faintly lemony from rice vinegar, each grain still firm — run $26 to $39 for the very generous regular size, with half-portions $14-$20.

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Downtown, Donburi House does Korean-Japanese fusion rice bowls, noodles and bento boxes.

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Farther north, Minato Donburi in Wallingford specializes in seafood rice bowls, while Greenlake Sushi and Roll also features the trendy egg custard chawanmushi.

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Other openings in the city: Stone Korean Restaurant, which has a big following in Redmond; Kuro Sushi, which also does donburi rice bowls and udon; and Fonté Coffee Bar, which sits on the ground floor of the Civica Office Commons in downtown.

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And then there’s the name itself: Oyakodon, a Japanese chicken and egg rice bowl, translates literally to “parent-and-child donburi.”

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