also: おやこどんぶり
oyakodon; chicken and egg rice bowl
A popular Japanese dish consisting of a bowl of rice topped with simmered chicken and egg. The name literally means 'parent-and-child bowl', reflecting the chicken (parent) and egg (child) pairing. Variations using other parent-child ingredient pairs (e.g., salmon and roe) exist but are less common.
今日の昼ごはんは親子丼にしよう。
Let's have oyakodon for lunch today.
The oyakodon at this restaurant is delicious with its soft, runny egg.
parent-child threesome
Vulgar slang referring to a sexual threesome involving a parent and their child. The term is a crude metaphor based on the dish name. Not used in polite conversation.
そんな下品な話はやめてくれ。親子丼なんて冗談でも言うな。
Stop that vulgar talk. Don't even joke about a parent-child threesome.
牛丼 is a rice bowl topped with beef and onion, while 親子丼 is topped with chicken and egg, so the names are easy to mix up despite different ingredients.
Standard kanji spelling for the dish. The reading おやこどん is the most common abbreviation.
Kana spelling for the full reading. Used when the full word is written out in kana.
From 親子 (oyako, 'parent and child') + 丼 (don, 'bowl' or abbreviation of 丼ぶり donburi, 'rice bowl dish'). The name refers to the use of both chicken and egg in the dish.