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牛丼, ぎゅうどん,
gyudon |
 Gyūdon
(牛丼), often literally translated into English as beef bowl
- A Japanese dish consisting of a bowl of rice topped with
beef and onion simmered in a mildly sweet sauce flavored
with soy sauce and mirin. It also often includes shirataki.
A very popular food in Japan, it is commonly served with
beni shoga (pickled ginger), shichimi, and a side dish of
miso soup. Gyū means "cow" or "beef", and don is short for
donburi, the Japanese word for "bowl".
Gyūdon can be found in many Japanese restaurants and some
fast food chains specialize exclusively in the dish. The
largest gyūdon chains in Japan are Yoshinoya and Sukiya.
Another large chain, Matsuya, sells gyūdon under the name
gyūmeshi (牛めし).
As a consequence of the fear of mad cow disease and a ban on
imports of American beef, Yoshinoya and most competitors
were forced to terminate gyudon sales in Japan on February
11, 2004. The Japanese Diet voted to resume beef imports
from the United States in early May 2005 but the ban was
reinstated in January of 2006 after detectable quantities of
prohibited spine tissue were found in the first post-ban
shipments arriving in Japan. As the issue was discussed
between the American and Japanese governments, gyudon
vendors and customers waited for a resolution. As of
September 2006, the ban has been lifted.
Yoshinoya moved its business to a similar dish made with
pork instead of beef, which it named butadon (豚丼). Sukiya
continued to serve gyūdon (using Australian beef) and also
added a dish, tondon, equivalent to Yoshinoya's butadon, to
its menu. (Buta and ton are both Japanese words for pig or
pork, written with the same kanji, 豚.
It was also made popular from the manga Kinnikuman.
Information source: “Gyudon.” wikipedia.org. Article date:
21 Jan. 2008. Retrieved: Wikipedia. 4 Feb. 2008 <Gyudon>.
Video - The following videos are at one of
the famous Yoshinoya, 吉野家, Gyudon restaurants in Japan. The
first video is actually a Boss coffee commercial with Tommy
Lee Jones. The second is a commercial for the restaurant. |
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