Our reporter investigates the strangely named “shaved ice donburi” at a Tokyo cafe

“Donburi” usually refers to dishes eaten over a bowl of rice, so how could this concept possibly work? When our Japanese language reporter Yuichiro Wasai first spotted the business sign that read “We’re serving takeout kakigori-don,” he understandably did a double take. It wasn’t the takeout part, but rather the “-don” suffix that had caught […]

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