Word: oyako
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...rice marked “Lice” was touchingly Lost in Translation. Everything was distinctly Japanese, but nothing other than my having eaten it all in the same city made it coalesce into a single story. The rice balls for breakfast, the chicken and egg dish called Oyako Donburi (literally “mother and child rice bowl”) for lunch, and the custard-filled crêpe at a street corner in Harajuku the next day equally eluded a coherent column arc. Despite, or perhaps because I wanted so desperately for my experience in Tokyo to fit neatly...
...Oyako don-buri with misoshiri soup is usually very good," my new friend advised. "And reasonable." Reasonable was four dollars. Looking for something vaguely familiar, I decided on sukiyaki with chicken...
...having oyako," he replied. "Chicken, vegetable, and eggs scrambled with sauce, on steamed rice...
...left him there, still eating his oyako, and hurried into the mechanized night of Boston cops and omnibuses, feeling hungry and not at all alien...
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