Apparently they call it TKG?

[dorchadas]

A couple days ago I was looking for something to make for lunch that was delicious and different and wouldn't take 10-15 minutes out of my hour lunch to make when I stumbled onto an article about 卵かけご飯 (tamago kake gohan, "egg on rice"). I knew about it and had made it before, but when I made it, it was soupy and nearly inedible. Turns out it was because I used too much egg, or rather, I made too little rice, so I cooked up a cup of rice instead of half a cup, cracked in a raw egg and got to mixing; added some soy sauce, black sesame seeds, and shio furikake; crumbled up some roasted nori on top, and here we go:

It was extremely good. So good that now I'm thinking about alternating this with my usual breakfast (salmon, pickles, miso soup and rice) on days when I go into the office. I can add a small miso soup to it if it doesn't seem like enough food, and on winter days it'll be lovely and warm. We'll just need to make sure to have more of that toasted nori around to crumble up on top, and maybe some 沢庵 (takuan, "pickled daikon radish") to put on the top. Then it'll be perfect.

The TKG thing is from hearing that the youths call it TKG and it was a Tiktok trend, but I completely ignore Tiktok so I can't verify if that's true or not.

Comments

[pshaw_raven]

That sounds delicious - I'll have to try it myself!

[annofowlshire]

My mother did something similar to this when I was a kid, and I still do when I have leftover rice kicking around in the fridge. Chuck the rice a pot with a bit of water, and once it's cooked off the water and heated through, add the egg and toppings. Sometimes she'd add a sliced up hot dog. Because Korean-American fusion cuisine XD If we've got kimchi that goes on, too.

(Enting's Very English tutor was put off that Enting likes cold rice with breakfast. I pointed out that's a very cultural bias--eating yesterday's leftover rice for breakfast is something my mother still does!)

[dorchadas]

It would probably be delicious with kimchi!

eating yesterday's leftover rice for breakfast is something my mother still does!

This is how you know I didn't grow up eating rice--I'll make as much as I need at a time, and if I need more, I make more. Meanwhile, my Japanese tutor told me that every morning she makes a couple cups of rice, they use it for whatever, and anything left over gets fried or just eaten the next day.

[prixmium]

I think it's accurate that it's referred to as TKG because a university student I had a certain chemistry-that-never-went-anywhere-with as I was his extracurricular teacher thing with back in 2019 had a surname that started with K and I put together sometime in the last year or two that most of his online usernames (which I got and kept in touch with poorly for the next few years after I left that job) were plays on the letters TKG.