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| main_ingredient = Chicken, egg, and sliced scallion
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{{nihongo|'''''Oyakodon'''''|親子丼}}, literally "parent-and-child donburi", is a ''[[donburi]]'', or Japanese rice bowl dish, in which chicken, egg, sliced [[scallion]] (or sometimes regular onions), and other ingredients are all simmered together in a kind of soup that is made with soy sauce and stock, and then served on top of a large bowl of rice. The name of the dish is a [[Poetry|poetic]] reflection of both chicken and egg being used in the dish.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://kotobank.jp/word/%E8%A6%AA%E5%AD%90%E4%B8%BC-455026|title = 親子丼(オヤコドンブリ)とは - Definition of "Oyakodon" (In Japanese)}}</ref>

==History==
The origins of the dish are unknown. The earliest written mention of the terms "oyako" and "don" in combination is in a newspaper advertisement for a restaurant in [[Kobe]] in 1884. The advertisement mentions dishes named ''oyakojōdon, oyakonamidon'' and ''oyakochūdon,'' possibly referring to different sizes.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://crd.ndl.go.jp/reference/modules/d3ndlcrdentry/index.php?page=ref_view&id=1000081250 |title=明治36年(1903)、第五回内国勧業博覧会開催時に、親子丼が販売提供されていたか知りたい。 (in Japanese) | date=8 March 2011 |website=Collaborative Reference Database}}</ref>

==Variations==
Several other Japanese dishes pun on the parent-and-child theme of ''oyakodon''. {{nihongo|''Tanindon''|他人丼}}, literally "stranger bowl",<ref>{{Cite web|title = 関西の他人丼を知っていますか？地方の丼紹介！|url = http://trendripple.jp/3551.html|website = TRENDRIPPLE(とれんどりっぷる)|access-date = 2015-12-06|language = ja-JP}}<br/>{{cite book|author1=Pamela Goyan Kittler|author2=Kathryn P. Sucher|author3=Marcia Nelms|title=Food and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BYMKAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA327|date=22 August 2011|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=978-1-285-22561-6|page=327}}</ref> is otherwise identical but replaces the chicken with [[beef]] or [[pork]]. A dish of [[Salmon as food|salmon]] and salmon [[roe]] served raw over rice is known as {{nihongo|''sake oyakodon''|鮭親子丼}} (salmon parent-child donburi).{{Cn|date=February 2025}}
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==See also==
*[[Gyūdon]], beef on rice
*[[Katsudon]], pork cutlets on rice
*[[Unadon]], [[unagi|grilled eel kabayaki]] on rice

==References==
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* Tsuji, Shizuo (1980). ''Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art''. New York: Kodansha International/USA. {{ISBN|0-87011-399-2}}.

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[[Category:Donburi]]
[[Category:Japanese rice dishes]]
[[Category:Japanese egg dishes]]
[[Category:Japanese chicken dishes]]
[[Category:Japanese cuisine]]
[[Category:Chicken and rice dishes]]