Rice with some kind of protein; usually fish (canned mackerel and a raw egg shown here), with a whole mess of Japanese pickled vegetables and mushroom things sprinkled with seaweed and little dried fish. Sometimes I pour hot water or tea over the whole thing. When I make breakfast, it's often a variant of this. BONUS SHOT: Food porn-style photo taken from inside the food, with nothing to speak of in any kind of focus:
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Your food looks like I would like your food. Is this typical Japanese domestic cuisine?
I honestly don't know, but I think so. Kind of just variations on fish and rice, which the storybooks tell me all virtuous Asian fishermen eat. The aesthetic migrated here to Hawaii in the brains of Japanese and Chinese and Korean plantation workers, probably, and the idea (stuff on rice with crap on the side) percolated throughout the islands. Or maybe everyone everywhere does it.
The crap on the side is decidedly Japanese, although I there are Korean and Chinese variations of pickled vegetables and dried fish. I imagine anything would work. (western pickles, leftover vegetables, mini marshmallows, etc.) As with all breakfast foods, it's about texture differentials. Great way to start the day.
Mmm... except raw eggs.
The friction of eating them cooks them, probably.
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