{"id":1100,"date":"2012-05-21T20:30:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T12:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2014-11-24T07:32:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T23:32:18","slug":"mmf-oishinbo-cooking-beef-garlic-rice-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.punkednoodle.com\/champloo\/2012\/05\/21\/mmf-oishinbo-cooking-beef-garlic-rice-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"MMF: Oishinbo Cooking: Beef Garlic Rice Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the countless amount of recipes in Oishinbo<\/em>, it was a difficult task to sort what food to cook. All of them looked appetizing. Most of them read like they’re the greatest dish we could ever taste! And there are some that have flavors we could only dream of.<\/p>\n

However, I realized that after my post on a recipe taken from Yoshinaga Fumi’s Kinou Nani Tabeta<\/em><\/a>, not a lot of people have access to Japanese goods and it’s rather sad that the pleasure of eating food from a manga was mine alone.<\/p>\n

Thus, I took the task to choose dishes that we can all eat! Not all of us might be able to find some shiso leaves and freshly cut bamboo but I think, at the very least, some rice would be available to all.<\/p>\n

For this MMF, I will be cooking a couple of dishes from Oishinbo. I think some folks are trying other dishes from other manga, but at least here, we’re gunning for a homebrew of the Ultimate Menu.<\/p>\n

For tonight’s dinner, we’re serving Beef Garlic Rice Bowl.<\/p>\n

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That’s just Gyudon, isn’t it?<\/h3>\n

Well, technically it is because gyu <\/em>(\u00e7\u2030\u203a)\u00c2\u00a0stands for beef and don<\/em> (\u00e4\u00b8\u00bc) is short for donburi<\/em> (\u00e3\u0081\u00a9\u00e3\u201a\u201c\u00e3\u0081\u00b6\u00e3\u201a\u0160) which means bowl. That said, it doesn’t mean we’re dishing up an entire bowl of beef. Donburi<\/em> often entails a dish on top of a bowl of rice. Like rice toppings in Chinese restaurants! \u00c2\u00a0It’s considered a manly dish – the kind that you have on the go for a quick lunch. I have friends who told me that they’d never go to places like Yoshinoya in Tokyo because that was just men’s territory.<\/p>\n

Of course, that’s not the case here.<\/p>\n

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See, the story of this beef bowl begins with the engaged Yamaoka and Kurita who can’t seem to get their heads together on a decent apartment. Both of them have different expectations on their dream home and to quell their tension, the couple decided to have lunch at the restaurant under one of their intended places.<\/p>\n

The proprietor offered quite a lot of dishes for the couple, but more than that, she was nice enough to show the couple how she cooked her famous beef bowl. And that sealed the deal on the apartment where they’re staying.<\/p>\n

Haru’s Beef Bowl<\/h3>\n

Ingredients<\/em><\/p>\n