Hataraku Gohan

Meals of a working life in Japan. The big meal is breakfast.

Find a breakfast

Eggs

Rolled, fried, soft-boiled, or on top of rice.

Three-color rice bowl with seasoned ground meat, egg, spinach, and edamame, with a bowl of Chinese-style soup.

Morning

A Colorful Breakfast: Sanshoku Soboro Don

Keema curry on yellow rice topped with a soft egg, with a green salad and a glass bowl of watermelon and grapes

Morning

Keema curry for breakfast

Slices of rolled omelet with hijiki seaweed, a piece of fried chicken, broccoli and tomato on a blue and white plate, with kabocha and cherries behind

Morning

Hijiki tamagoyaki and karaage

Omurice topped with ketchup beside a green salad, with a cup of pumpkin soup, a slice of pound cake and yogurt with fruit

Morning

Omurice, pumpkin soup, and pound cake

Hamburger steak with melted cheese and a fried egg beside lettuce and sprouts, with mushroom soup in a wooden bowl, melon and yogurt

Morning

Hamburger steak and a fried egg

Eggs at a Japanese breakfast

Eggs show up at my breakfast table in many forms. They sit on top of rice or curry, next to a hamburger steak, or wrap the rice in omurice.

Some examples from my mornings: a soft egg on keema curry, a fried egg on hamburger steak, and omurice, rice wrapped in an omelet and topped with ketchup.