LoLo-EatableThai: 'Don Don Tei' where the Japanese Rice Bowl available

いらっしゃいませ ... Irasshaimase ... yes it's a welcome greeting at the front of the entrance as soon as we steped into this place ... This is 'Don Don Tei' ... donburi shop came from Osaka, Japan.

Donburi is a Japanese genral term for 'Bowl' -- In fact, it also refers to a bowl of cooked rice with some other food on top (variety of toppings available in Japanese Donburi). Do you know that the word 'donburi' in fact was originated from Thailand ... It was long ago during Thonuburi Kingdom where King Taksin The Great has given the Emperor a ceramic bowl one time. Then such bowl was called 'Thonburi Bowl' and was asked to find the dish to fit in the bowl ... Somewhere some how, the 'Thonburi bowl' was turned to be 'Donburi Bowl' later as we have seen nowadays.

Now back to 'donburi' in this present day. there are exist a variety of donburi dishes (as you are aware of ) such as Oyakodon or Mother and Child Donburi (Chicken & Egg), Katsudon or Tonkatsu Donburi (Pork Cutlet), Gyudon or Gyuniku Donburi (Beef), Tendon or Tempura Donburi, Unadon or Unagi Donburi (Eel), even Tekkadon or Tekka Donburi (maguro - raw tuna) ... and What's about 'Don Don Tei'???

As Don Don Tei is the specialized on Donburi ... here are some of their Donburi Dishes ... starting from Tenchazuke (180Bht) -- Rice bowl of shrimp and scallop tempura served with hot soup ... This is the combination of Tendon and Chazuke. Noted that Chazuke is a Japanese Dish made by pouring green tea, dashi or hot water over cooked rice with savoury topping. In this case, the sovoury topping is tempura which consists of shrimp and scallop. My favourite part was a Shiso Leave which made this dish so aromatic (a kind of minty and able to kill the quesy taste away). How to eat was so simple -- just pour the dashi soup over and enjoy!!!

I have to mention that Don Don Tei is specialized on 'fried item' donburi ... so this is another fried item Tendon (210Bht) - Rice bowl of shrimp and vegetable tempura ... As you know tempura are deep fried pieces of battered seafood and vegetables ... so this one is various tempura pieces dipped into a kind of soya based sauce before served on top of rice.

Try this one - Tentojidon (230Bht) - Rice bowl of shrimp and vegetable tempura coated with egg in sauce. Another combination of Tendon and thing similar to Oyakodon become Tempura topped with egg ... I like this dish more than normal Tendon as the sauce & egg made this dish naturally sweet and tender

Yes, a lot of Donburi Dish to try ... But if you want something big - I meant Bigger ... Try this Combination Set which cost 280Bht ... there' re 3 choices to select from Tendon Set, Oyakodon Set, or Buta Shogayakidon Set. Anyway, each set come with your choice of either tendon, oyakodon, or buta ... and choices of cold noodles topped with mixed salad or soba, Japanese Style Fried Chicken or Mixed Tempura, and ice-cream. Below was Set B (Oyakodon Set) with Cold Noodle topped with mixed salad (which is cold as it name and feel like eating salad), fried chicken ... end up with ice-cream (green tea or red bean) ... below was red bean which I love it with real bean in !!!

Can't enjoy only Tendon as main dish right? There's also an appertizer menu for you to select from croquette, kararge, tempura, and a lot of tofu dishes ... below is Agadashi Tofu (90Bht) - a deep fried tofu in sauce topped with radish & ginger ... I so love this white soft tofu !!!