katsudon

The tonkatsu for the katsudon dish is prepared by dipping the cutlet in flour, followed by egg, then dipping in panko breadcrumbs, and deep-frying. Next, into a boiling broth of dashi, soy sauce and onions, the sliced tonkatsu and a beaten egg is cooked.{{Cite web|url=https://tasteofjapan.maff.go.jp/experience/images/home.pdf|title=Experience Japanese Home Cooking|date=2021-02-10|access-date=2021-08-15|website=Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815153610/https://tasteofjapan.maff.go.jp/experience/images/home.pdf|archive-date=2021-08-15|url-status=dead|at=p4:Tonkatsu, p5:Katsudon)|language=en}}

• The PDF text misses the egg-dipping step before breading the meat. The video does demonstrate it.
• video: [https://tasteofjapan.maff.go.jp/en/experience/homecooking/katsu/?muted=true Tonkatsu & Katsudon recipe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815202035/https://tasteofjapan.maff.go.jp/en/experience/homecooking/katsu/?muted=true |date=2021-08-15 }}
• web page linking to the video and PDF: [https://tasteofjapan.maff.go.jp/en/experience/all/ Experience Japanese Home Cooking] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815202033/https://tasteofjapan.maff.go.jp/en/experience/all/ |date=2021-08-15 }}

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Other bowls, made of cutlet and rice but without eggs or stock, may also be called katsudon. Such dishes include:

• sōsu katsudon (sauce katsudon): with tonkatsu sauce{{Cite web|url=https://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/webmagazine/2015/11/kitchen.html|title=Japanese kitchen – Sauce katsu-don|date=2020-03-01|access-date=2021-08-15|website=Embassy of Japan in the UK|last=Yamada|first=Akira|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815193442/https://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/webmagazine/2015/11/kitchen.html|archive-date=2021-08-15|url-status=live|language=en}} or Worcestershire sauce, from regions such as Fukui, Kōfu, Gunma, Aizuwakamatsu and Komagane
• demi katsudon or domi katsudon: with demi-glace and often green peas, a specialty of Okayama
• shōyu-dare katsudon: with soy sauce-based tare sauce, Niigata-style
• misokatsu-don: {{ill|misokatsu|ja|味噌カツ}} tonkatsu with a sauce made with hatchō miso on rice, a favorite in Nagoya

File:とんから亭のかつ丼！ - 2.jpg|With egg and onion

Fukui sause katsudon.jpg|Marinated in Worcestershire sauce

File:かつや味噌カツ丼と豚汁.jpg|With tonkatsu sauce and tonjiru

TareKatsudon Matsuriya.jpg|Shōyu-dare katsudon, soy sauce flavor

If pork is substituted with beef, it will be gyū-katsu-don.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/okazu/contents/onair/backnumber/2016052/|title=Sōsu katsudon|date=2016-05-14|access-date=2021-08-16|website=TV Asahi|last=Doi|first=Yoshiharu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625051958/http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/okazu/contents/onair/backnumber/2016052/|archive-date=2016-06-25|url-status=dead|language=ja|script-title=ja:ソース牛カツ丼|trans-title=Worcestershire sauce katsudon}} A variation made with chicken katsu and egg is called oyako katsudon,{{Cite web|url=https://www.mbs.jp/puipui/pm_kitchen/2019/01/09.shtml|title=Kitchen puipui – Oyako katsudon|date=2019-01-09|access-date=2021-08-16|website=Mainichi Broadcasting System|last=Urakami|first=Yutaka|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902150114/https://www.mbs.jp/puipui/pm_kitchen/2019/01/09.shtml|archive-date=2019-09-02|url-status=live|language=|script-title=ja:キッチンぷいぷい 親子カツ丼|trans-title=Kitchen puipui – parent-and-child cutlet donburi}} which is distinguished from oyakodon where the meat in the latter is not fried.

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It has become a modern tradition for Japanese students to eat katsudon the night before taking a major test or school entrance exam. This is because "katsu" is a homophone of the verb {{Nihongo||勝つ|katsu}}, meaning "to win" or "to be victorious". It is also a trope in Japanese police films: that suspects will speak the truth with tears when they have eaten katsudon{{Cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2008/06/10/language/investigating-the-linguistic-allure-of-hard-boiled-detectives/|title=Investigating the linguistic allure of hard-boiled detectives|date=2008-06-10|access-date=2021-08-15|website=The Japan Times|last=Shoji|first=Kaori|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919092126/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2008/06/10/language/investigating-the-linguistic-allure-of-hard-boiled-detectives/|archive-date=2020-09-19|url-status=live|language=en}} and are asked, "Did you ever think about how your mother feels about this?" Even nowadays, the gag of "We must eat katsudon while interrogating" is popular in Japanese films. However, {{as of|2019|lc=y}}, police will never actually feed suspects during interrogation.{{Cite web|url=https://soranews24.com/2019/01/24/we-eat-a-meal-to-remember-at-a-japanese-police-station-in-fukuoka/|title=We eat a meal to remember…at a Japanese police station in Fukuoka|date=2019-01-24|access-date=2021-08-15|website=SoraNews24|last1=McGee|first1=Oona|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190124170534/https://soranews24.com/2019/01/24/we-eat-a-meal-to-remember-at-a-japanese-police-station-in-fukuoka/|archive-date=2019-01-24|url-status=live|last2=Sunakoma|first2=Masanuki|language=en}}

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• Donburi: Japanese bowls of food on rice
• Gyūdon: with simmered beef
• Oyakodon: with chicken and egg
• Unadon: with eel
• Tonkatsu: deep fried pork cutlet
• Katsu curry: another tonkatsu dish with curry sauce and without eggs, served in a plate with spoon, not in a bowl with chopsticks.
• Escalope

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