Parent and Child Bowl

The fanciful name given to this chicken omelet served on rice is typical of Japanese culinary humor. Oya means “parent” and ko means “child” and the age-old question of which came first (the chicken or the egg?) is given a tasty Oriental solution. You might find it surprising to use so much soup stock and sugar in an omelet. The resulting dish, though, is neither sweet nor soupy. The sugar is nicely balanced by the saltiness of the soy sauce, and the omelet is really poached i