Japan - Fried runny eggs with boiled rice?

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I watched a little of the Japanese animation From up on Poppy Hill by Miyazaki. In one scene breakfast is being served and a fried runny egg is served with boiked rice. Is that something people would actually have?

People from cultures who commonly have dinner leftovers for breakfast, which is something that I applaud and often do myself, probably think the UK habit of carby, sugary, insubstantial breakfasts and buying in cereal or eating things like toast and jam to be quite odd too.

A really good TV show called Japanology has an episode on Japanese breakfast, which includes a section on the raw egg, rice combo.

Leftovers for breakfast isnt typical in Japan. Making others feel comfortable abd agreeibg with them despite feeling differently IS common. However the student probably liked your yunmy leftover dinners as Japanese breakfasts are traditionally savoury vs sweet.

Younger generations have suffered from the 7-11 stores that have introduced a version of 'Western' bread that is far from typical. It's sweet and quite cake-like. The change in their diet has produced a taller generation. Things have really changed in many ways over the last 30 years.

Dd is obsessed with Japanese and Korean food. In one restaurant we go to she always has kimchi fried rice with a fried egg on top. She makes ramen at home and has a soft boiled egg in it or sometimes cracks the egg into the hot broth when it's already in the bowl and it cooks in there.

I make Chinese soups quite often and add a raw egg to that then swirl it around.

Gosh some people will take offence at anything. I wouldn't be in the least bit offended if someone from Japan or Korea got British and Spanish food mixed up.

All cuisines have borrows elements from all over the place anyway, surely.

I certainly didn’t expect to be patronised about it I lived in South Korea for two years without managing to cause offence. Yet mention that Korean cuisine also has eggs on dishes and well....

It's fucking scrummy :) Omurice too, and it's yummy in bibimbap too.

I really fancy some Korean food now.

Me too

Oooo, makes me want to fry up a load of kimchi now drool.

I really fancy some Korean food now.

Could share some s7ndubu jjigae I had for breakfast!

That looks SO good

OMG did you mean to sound so patronising to a previous poster @interestingdays?

Retee! Jealous!!

I had a lovely Korean Barbecue in Thailand. There was an interesting inverted bowl with a deep rim over candles. We greased the bowl, cooked the meat, then the veggies. The juice ran into the rim. Then we added stock to the rim and cooked the noodles in it. It was amazing and I’ve never found it since, despite all those “Korean Barbecue” places springing up in London in the late 90s.

I often make egg fried rice - crack egg(s) in while it's still cooking, stir in quickly to cook - I can't bear runny egg white.

I've had a lot of egg/rice dishes in Indonesia, including for breakfast. Ditto lovely noodle/veg soups with an egg added. There were chickens running around everywhere in the more rural areas, so presumably eggs are a reasonably cheap source of protein.

Dh who spent a lot of time in Indonesia loves Nasi Goreng with a fried egg on top and was most put out when a London Asian restaurant offering NG said they didn't do it with egg. And refused to add one even if he paid extra. Meanies.

You should go to new Malden in Surrey. It has the highest community of Koreans outside of Korea and there are some fabulous restaurants and food shops.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.timeout.com/london/blog/korean-barbecue-dino-golf-and-k-pop-its-the-best-bits-of-new-malden-111315/amp

Good tip Crispbutty. It’s great there. I stock up at Seoul Plaza store too!

Ugh. This thread now makes me want Thai basil fried rice from a local restaurant. It has a fried egg on top too and the fried rice has beef, chicken and shrimp mixed through. I haven’t had breakfast yet so I may just order this for lunch and have it be my first (deliciously spicy) meal of the day!

I used to live in New Malden so it was great being able to try all the food as it really is lovely.

We are in Devon now and hard pushed to find a decent Chonese close to us never mind a Korean or Nepalese (my other favourite cuisine).

I miss decent kimchi 😢

Iranians sometimes serve a raw egg yoke with rice it’s absolutely delicious you stir it in

They really do make the most amazing rice dishes

anne it’s frustrating when people continually conflate Korean and Japanese culture as if they are the same.

Similarities exist, obviously. But if someone asked about churros and you said ‘yes doughnuts exist in the UK’ wouldn’t it be a bit odd?

It is just racism to talk as though Japan and Korea are basically the same.

You lived here two years? So what? I know people who’ve lived here 20 but can’t speak a word of Korean and don’t know the difference between kim chi and jjigae so it is meaningless. Endless numbers of ignorant people living in Korea, sadly.

It's not uncommon to have rice with a fried egg on top in South America. I love to break the runny yolk into the rice, proper comfort food and great for hangovers.