Eight Treasure Don

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

Happosai Don

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

Asia
Japan
Main course
Lunch

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