{"title":"Japanese Donburi","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bowl of rice with something cooked on top: chicken and egg set soft in soy and dashi, pork under a thick sauce, beef, a crumbed cutlet. In Japan it is lunch: fast, hot, one bowl.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"marumiya-oyakodon-rice-bowl","title":"Marumiya Oyakodon Chicken \u0026 Egg Rice Bowl — 285g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA whole oyakodon in one box, and the rice is already in it. Chicken and onion simmered down in sweet soy and dashi — the savoury stock most Japanese cooking is built on — then set soft with egg over Japanese short-grain rice; three minutes in the microwave and it's dinner. If you ate this in Japan and have wanted it on an ordinary Tuesday ever since, this is the shortcut. Buy it for a desk lunch or a smaller dinner; on a big appetite it is light on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e丸美屋 親子丼 ごはん付き. Marumiya oyakodon gohan-tsuki. The \u003cem\u003egohan-tsuki\u003c\/em\u003e on the end means the rice is included. The rest is literal: 親 is the parent, meaning the chicken, and 子 is the child, meaning the egg. The \u003cem\u003e-don\u003c\/em\u003e on the end is \u003cem\u003edonburi\u003c\/em\u003e: a bowl of rice with something on top.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is Marumiya's everyday supermarket line: eighteen bowls deep in Japan, sold off the ambient shelf rather than the chiller. It's a weeknight product there, not a restaurant one, and it's honest about that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe rice comes with it. Inside the box is a sealed bowl of Japanese short-grain rice and a separate pouch of chicken-and-egg topping, you are not buying a sauce to pour over rice you cooked yourself.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSweet-savoury rather than salty: soy and a fermented seasoning with shiitake and bonito dashi behind them. The egg is set soft rather than rubbery, and the sauce carries all the way down to the last of the rice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt lives in the cupboard, not the fridge, which is what makes it the thing you fall back on when there is nothing else in the house.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt leans sweet and it's seasoned gently. A shake of shichimi (Japan's seven-spice chilli blend) or sansho (its citrusy pepper) at the end sharpens it right up, worth having one on hand the first time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt's a modest bowl: a 285 g pack, 160 g of it rice. One honest single serve.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains egg, wheat and soy. There is chicken in it as well, declared in Japan but not an Australian allergen, and between that and the egg there is no vegetarian way to eat this one. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHeating it: the lid has to come \u003cem\u003eright\u003c\/em\u003e off the rice bowl before it goes in — not peeled back halfway, all the way off, or the container can burst. Then tip the pouch over the rice, level it out, and rest the lid loosely back on top. Three minutes at 500W, or a minute and a half at 1000W, which is what most Australian microwaves run at. The full method is under How to eat it. \u003cstrong\u003eNever put it in an oven or a toaster oven.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marumiya","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244646772962,"sku":"SH-RCE-0002","price":7.69,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/marumiya-oyakodon-rice-bowl-pack.webp?v=1787297716"},{"product_id":"marumiya-chuka-don-rice-bowl","title":"Marumiya Chuka Don Pork \u0026 Vegetable Rice Bowl — 305g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA whole chuka don in one box, and the rice is already in it. Six things: bamboo shoot, carrot, Chinese cabbage, baby corn, wood ear mushroom and pork, under a thick, gently savoury sauce with sesame oil and ginger running through it, over Japanese short-grain rice. Two or three minutes in the microwave, depending on how powerful yours is, and it's dinner. It's a supermarket bowl in Japan rather than a restaurant one, and it's honest about that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e丸美屋 五目中華丼 ごはん付き. Marumiya gomoku chuka don. Two things the name won't tell you. \u003cstrong\u003eChuka don means \"Chinese-style rice bowl\", but the dish is Japanese\u003c\/strong\u003e. It was first made in Tokyo, and the \"Chinese\" in the name describes the style rather than where it comes from. And \u003cem\u003egomoku\u003c\/em\u003e isn't five of anything in particular; it just means \"a mix of things\", which is why the pack happily lists six. Look that one up in English and you'll get a board game.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe rice comes with it. Inside the box is a tray of Japanese short-grain rice and a separate pouch of topping: you are not buying a sauce to pour over rice you cooked yourself. Worth saying plainly, because on an English-language shelf the sauce sachets and the complete bowls both get called \"bowl\".\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSavoury rather than sweet, and not hot at all. There's no chilli in it. Soy, garlic and ginger, with sesame oil coming through at the end and clam, scallop and chicken stocks underneath for depth.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWood ear mushroom is the one ingredient most people here won't have met. It's the same thing Asian grocers sell as black fungus or cloud ear. It's in there for texture rather than flavour, crunchy, and a little slippery, so don't expect it to taste of much.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt's a modest bowl: 305 g, 160 g of that rice. Right for a smaller dinner or a desk lunch. If you have a big appetite, put something beside it: a cup of noodles is the usual answer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt lives in the cupboard, not the fridge, pork and all. That's what makes it the thing you fall back on when there's nothing else in the house.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat (gluten), soy, sesame, \u003cstrong\u003emollusc\u003c\/strong\u003e and apple, plus chicken and pork, which Japan declares and Australia does not.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens, the two chart gaps\u003c\/strong\u003e: Japan's chart has no mollusc category, so the clam and scallop sit in the ingredient list, not the allergen box. Australia's chart has no apple category either, so apple cannot appear in an allergen box here. Check the ingredients; ours is the fuller list.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThere is no vegetarian way to eat this one\u003c\/strong\u003e: the mollusc is clam and scallop stock in the sauce.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHeating it: peel the lid right off the rice tray, tip the pouch over the rice and level it out, then rest the lid back on loosely, and lay it upside down, or the topping sticks to it. \u003cstrong\u003eDon't heat it with the lid still sealed down: the container can burst.\u003c\/strong\u003e The pack gives a time for every wattage, three minutes at 500W, two and a half at 600W, a minute and a half at 1000W, one minute at 1500W, so use the line that matches your microwave rather than the first one printed. \u003cstrong\u003eDon't use the auto-reheat setting, which overheats this one, and never put it in a toaster oven or a conventional oven.\u003c\/strong\u003e There's a hot-water method too, if you're camping: the rice tray goes in with its lid still on for about fifteen minutes, and the topping pouch, unopened, for five.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marumiya","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48261062951138,"sku":"SH-RCE-0007","price":7.69,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/marumiya-chuka-don-rice-bowl-pack.webp?v=1787652175"},{"product_id":"marumiya-charcoal-chicken-rice-bowl","title":"Marumiya Charcoal-Style Chicken Rice Bowl — 249g","description":"\u003cp\u003eChicken, bamboo shoot and spring onion sit in a sweet-salty soy sauce over Japanese short-grain rice. If teriyaki chicken from the supermarket is your reference point you are in the right family: sweet soy, savoury with it, and \u003cstrong\u003eno chilli at all\u003c\/strong\u003e. The rice is already in the box, so it is about a minute and a half in most Australian microwaves, with nothing to add and nothing to wash up. At 249 g it is a light lunch rather than a full dinner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack it reads 炭火焼き風とり丼: sumibiyaki-fu toridon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePay attention to the sauce rather than the chicken. It is the part that carries the bowl. Reviewers in Japan call it rich rather than delicate, and sweet-salty rather than sweet. This is an everyday Japanese supermarket bowl, not a premium line.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJapanese reviewers find the chicken tender. There is bamboo shoot and spring onion through it, and the most repeated complaint in Japan is that there is not much chicken for the amount of rice: while others simply find the whole box small.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRead \"charcoal-grilled\" as a style, not a method.\u003c\/strong\u003e 風 means \u003cem\u003e-style\u003c\/em\u003e, and Marumiya never claims a grilling step, the charcoal character is built into the sauce. If you are picturing a charcoal-chicken shop you will not find it: Japanese reviewers who went looking for smoke said it tasted like tinned yakitori, the supermarket tin of grilled chicken in sweet soy, rather than anything off a grill.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is one modest serve, 249 g, and 160 g of that is the rice. A hungry adult in Japan eats two of them. Treat one as a light lunch, and plan on something alongside it if you are properly hungry.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, soy and chicken. Chicken is on there because Japan asks for it, not because it is an Australian allergen. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe rice is included\u003c\/strong\u003e: this is a whole meal in one box, not a sauce sachet to pour over rice you cook yourself. It keeps in the cupboard rather than the fridge: the rice is aseptically packed and the topping is sealed and heat-sterilised. The pack prints four microwave times: take the 1000 W one, about a minute and a half, since most Australian microwaves are 800 W or more and the 500 W and 600 W lines are the slow ones. \u003cstrong\u003ePeel the film lid right off the rice tray, open the sealed topping pouch and tip it over, then rest the lid loosely back on top\u003c\/strong\u003e: the tray is the only part that goes in the microwave, and sealed shut it can burst while uncovered it spatters. It comes out very hot, so lift it with a tea towel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marumiya","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48261072158946,"sku":"SH-RCE-0006","price":7.69,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/marumiya-charcoal-chicken-rice-bowl-pack-front.webp?v=1787652772"},{"product_id":"marumiya-mapo-tofu-rice-bowl","title":"Marumiya Mabo Don — Japanese Mapo Tofu Rice Bowl, 297g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA whole mapo tofu bowl in one box, with the rice already in it: microwave it in its own tray. No pan, no kettle, nothing to keep cold. This is the Japanese version rather than the Sichuan one, so it lands gentler: chilli-bean heat, a lot of ginger, and none of the numbing peppercorn. Everyday Japanese supermarket food, and a light-to-normal lunch rather than a big dinner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e麻婆丼, mabo don.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat it tastes like\u003c\/strong\u003e: savoury with a sweet edge, chilli-bean paste doing the heat and a clear run of ginger through it. Milder, sweeter and rounder than the Sichuan version of the same dish.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHow hot it actually is\u003c\/strong\u003e: it is chilli-bean warmth, not the tingling, mouth-numbing kind; there is no Sichuan peppercorn in it. How hot that lands is genuinely personal: plenty of people who avoid chilli are fine with it, and plenty find that \"medium\" undersells it. Treat it as a warm dish rather than a hot one, and keep something cold to hand the first time. Where a Japanese review mentions choosing the medium-hot, that is this one. Marumiya makes no mild version, and medium is the only heat this bowl comes in.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTexture\u003c\/strong\u003e: if you are expecting the tofu to have gone crumbly, it hasn't: the cubes hold their shape. Wood ear mushroom keeps its bite against them, and the sauce is glossy and spoon-thick.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is actually in it\u003c\/strong\u003e: tofu, chicken mince and wood ear mushroom on Japanese short-grain rice. Chicken, not the pork most mapo recipes call for.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest bit\u003c\/strong\u003e: it is one modest serve. Plenty for a light lunch; if you want it to be dinner, plan on something alongside it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, sesame, soy and apple. Australia's allergen chart has no apple category, so apple cannot appear in the pack's allergen box here — check the ingredients, not the chart; ours is the fuller list. The pack also declares chicken and pork. Japan asks for those, Australia does not treat them as allergens.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePork is worth a second look if you avoid it\u003c\/strong\u003e: it is on the pack's contains-list rather than a may-contain warning, yet appears under none of the ingredient names: it arrives through a hydrolysed protein or an extract, and the visible meat is chicken.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA few things worth knowing before you buy. The rice is in the box. This is a complete meal, not a sauce to pour over rice you cook yourself, which is what \"instant mapo\" almost always means in English. The pack is timed in Japanese wattages, so check your microwave's wattage on the plate inside its door and use the matching time: \u003cstrong\u003e500 W about 3 minutes · 600 W about 2 minutes 30 · 1000 W about 1 minute 30 · 1500 W about 1 minute.\u003c\/strong\u003e The three minutes printed largest on the pack is the 500 W figure, not a default. \u003cstrong\u003eDo not put it in an oven or a toaster oven, and do not use your microwave's automatic reheat setting: the maker warns that it overheats the pack.\u003c\/strong\u003e Wood ear mushroom is the same thing sold here as black fungus or cloud ear.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marumiya","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48261115347170,"sku":"SH-RCE-0005","price":7.69,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/marumiya-mabo-don-rice-bowl-pack.webp?v=1787875908"},{"product_id":"marumiya-tenshinhan-rice-bowl","title":"Marumiya Tenshinhan Crab Omelette Rice Bowl — 305g","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a soft-set egg omelette over Japanese short-grain rice under a thick, glossy sauce, with the rice already in the box. There is no vinegar, ketchup or tomato in the topping, it is soy, sesame oil and a stock of chicken, pork and bonito, a dried fish: thickened until it clings to every grain. If you want a hot Chinese-style meal out of the cupboard in about three minutes, this is it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e丸美屋 天津飯. Marumiya tenshinhan. Search that word and four of the first ten results are a Dragon Ball character; the dish is the older one. The name means \"Tianjin rice\", after the Chinese port city, though the dish itself was invented in Japan. It is the sort of thing you eat at a lunch counter there rather than make at home. If you know egg foo young you are close: the names share a root, and this is that idea served over rice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNot the sweet-and-sour one. This is the thing to know before you open it: tenshinhan is made two ways in Japan, and the version Australians tend to picture, the red, tangy, sweet-vinegar sauce, is the other one. Read this pack's ingredients and there is no vinegar, no ketchup and no tomato in the topping at all: it is built on soy, sesame oil and a savoury stock instead.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou taste the egg first, and it stays soft. Marumiya's own word for it is \u003cem\u003efunwari\u003c\/em\u003e: light and airy, and it comes out of the microwave silky rather than rubbery, which is the thing that usually goes wrong with an egg dish you reheat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe rice comes with it. Inside the box is a sealed tray of Japanese short-grain rice and a separate pouch of topping: you are not buying a sauce to pour over rice you cooked yourself.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe crab is crab stick, and crab is still an allergen here. The pink threads through the egg are \u003cem\u003ekanikama\u003c\/em\u003e: a crab-flavoured fish cake, not crab meat. But it is made with crab, and the pack declares crab, so it is not safe for a crab allergy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is a modest bowl: a 305 g pack, 160 g of it rice. Right for a desk lunch or a lighter dinner, and a big appetite will want something alongside.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains egg, wheat, crab, sesame and soy. The pack also declares chicken and pork, which Japan asks for and Australia does not treat as allergens. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHeating it, and one step worth getting right: peel the lid right off the rice tray, tip the pouch of topping over the rice and level it out, then rest the lid back on loosely. It will not re-seal, and it is not meant to. \u003cstrong\u003eThe pouch itself never goes in the microwave.\u003c\/strong\u003e The pack's own guide is about three minutes at 500W, or two and a half at 600W: it also lists roughly a minute and a half at 1000W. If your microwave is more powerful than the pack assumes, use the shorter time and check the middle before you stir. \u003cstrong\u003eNever use an oven or a toaster oven, never heat it with the lid still sealed, and skip the microwave's automatic reheat setting\u003c\/strong\u003e: the maker warns it overheats the tray. There is a stovetop route too, and its rule is the opposite: the rice tray goes into boiling water with its lid still on for about fifteen minutes, and the topping pouch goes in unopened for five.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt lives in the cupboard, not the fridge, nothing here needs refrigerating until you open it. The whole carton folds flat when you are done.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marumiya","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48261147328738,"sku":"SH-RCE-0008","price":7.69,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/marumiya-tenshinhan-rice-bowl-pack.webp?v=1787876134"}],"url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/collections\/japanese-donburi.oembed","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}