Name: Eight Treasure Don (Happosai Don)
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: Potato starch 2 tsp + 2 Tbsp water; Sake 3 Tbsp; Chicken bones soup granules a pinch; Salt to taste; Johakuto sugar a pinch; Koikuchi soy sauce 1½ tsp; Oyster sauce 4 tsp; Steamed rice 400 g (14 oz); Water 6 Tbsp; Minced garlic ¼ tsp; Chopped Old ginger ¼ tsp; Hardboiled quail eggs 4, peeled; Yellow onion ¼, peeled and thinly sliced; Chinese long cabbage 150 g (5⅓ oz), cut into 3-cm (1¼-in) squares; Pork belly 50 g (1⅔ oz), thinly sliced; Japanese leek ¼ stalk, thinly sliced; Carrot 30 g (1 oz), thinly sliced; Snow peas 6 pods, ends trimmed and strings removed; Egg white from 1 egg; Prawns 6, heads removed, shelled and deveined; Squid 50 g (1⅔ oz), cut into rings; Canola oil for blanching and frying; Ground white pepper a pinch; Salt a pinch; Potato starch 1 Tbsp; Sesame oil for flavouring

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Donburi

By Aki Watanabe

Published 2022

About

The Happosai or Eight Treasure Don is named thus because it traditionally contains eight main ingredients. Most probably influenced by Cantonese cuisine, this common dish in Japan can be prepared with any variety of meat or vegetables on hand.

Ingredients

Squid 50 g (1⅔ oz), cut into rings
Prawns 6

Method

Coat squid and prawns with egg white, potato starch and a pinch of salt and pepper.
Boil water with 1 tsp canola oil in a pot. Blanch squid and prawns, then drain and plunge into ice water. Drain and pat dry with paper towels. Set aside.
Boil water with