seasoned rice with meat, fish, and vegetables
A Kansai-style mixed rice dish, similar to takikomi gohan. Often includes chicken, carrots, konnyaku, and aburaage. The term is dialectal (Kansai-ben).
See also: かやくご飯
The kayaku-meshi my grandmother in Osaka makes is full of ingredients and very delicious.
駅弁で加薬飯を買って、新幹線の中で食べた。
I bought a kayaku-meshi ekiben and ate it on the Shinkansen.
An alternate name for the same dish, using the honorific 御 (ご).
加薬 (kayaku) originally referred to medicinal herbs or spices, and by extension came to mean 'seasoning' or 'flavoring ingredients' in Kansai dialect. 飯 (meshi) means 'rice'. The compound thus means 'seasoned rice'.