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Calories · Japanese

Calories in oyakodon

A typical restaurant serving of oyakodon (one bowl of rice topped with chicken, egg and onion, about 450 g) is about 590 calories, usually 480–780.

Restaurant portions vary; this is a typical estimate, not a label. Also called chicken and egg rice bowl, oyako don.

~590
Oyakodon

The usual range

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Protein, carbs and fat

  • Protein23 g
  • Carbs104 g
  • Fat11 g

One serving

Serving
one bowl of rice topped with chicken, egg and onion
Weight
~450 g
Per 100 g
~132

The dish

About oyakodon

Oyakodon is chicken and egg simmered in a sweet dashi-soy sauce, then slid over rice. The topping itself is fairly light, so the rice does most of the work, and a large bowl moves it closer to 800. Built from its parts: a standard donburi of 250 g rice plus 200 g of the chicken-and-egg topping, valued with Japan MEXT figures.

What moves the number

Why one plate is 480 and another 780

  • The bowl of rice underneath
  • Thigh with skin versus breast meat
  • Extra egg or sweet sauce

Ordering lighter

If you want a lighter plate

  • Ask for a small rice
  • Add a side salad or pickles
  • Leave the sauce-soaked rice at the bottom

Side by side

Next to other Japanese dishes

Japanese · typical restaurant servingAll about Japanese food →

  • Miso soup~50one bowl with tofu and seaweed · usually 30–90
  • Salmon nigiri~110two pieces, one plate · usually 70–150
  • Salmon sashimi~220about 100 g of sliced raw salmon, roughly six to eight slices · usually 150–340
  • Shrimp tempura~240five pieces of shrimp tempura, dipping sauce and rice not included · usually 180–400
  • California roll~300one roll cut into 8 pieces · usually 230–420
  • Udon noodle soup~300one bowl of plain kake udon in dashi broth, no tempura or extra toppings · usually 250–650
  • Chicken karaage~310five pieces of fried chicken karaage · usually 230–500
  • Gyoza~310six pan-fried pork gyoza, dipping sauce not included · usually 200–480
  • Tonkatsu~420one fried pork cutlet, without the rice, soup and cabbage · usually 330–600
  • Oyakodon~590one bowl of rice topped with chicken, egg and onion · usually 480–780
  • Gyudon~630one regular-size nami bowl · usually 470–1,010
  • Shoyu ramen~710one restaurant bowl with broth, noodles, chashu and egg · usually 520–1,000

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How these numbers were made

Method and sources

Last reviewed

Restaurant portions and cooking vary, so these are typical estimates for one serving, built from the sources below. Treat it as a rough number: your plate may land anywhere in the range.

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AI helped draft this page; every number was checked against the sources.

  1. Japan MEXT Standard Tables of Food Composition (8th ed., 2023) — Oyakodon topping, prepared, 18030
  2. Japan MEXT Standard Tables of Food Composition (8th ed., 2023) — Rice, well-milled, cooked (meshi), 01088

Questions

Questions people ask.

How many calories are in oyakodon?

A typical restaurant serving of oyakodon (one bowl of rice topped with chicken, egg and onion, about 450 g) is about 590 calories, usually 480–780. The number depends mostly on the portion and how it is cooked.

Is oyakodon lighter than katsudon?

Yes: about 590, against about 880 for katsudon, because the chicken and egg are not fried.

Where do the calories in oyakodon come from?

Mostly the rice underneath; the chicken and egg topping is fairly light.

What changes the calories in oyakodon?

The bowl of rice underneath. Thigh with skin versus breast meat.

How can I order oyakodon lighter?

Ask for a small rice. Add a side salad or pickles.

Can PlateDiary show calories for the dishes I eat out?

Yes, if you want it to: calories in PlateDiary are off unless you turn them on. Switch them on and each dish you save from a photo of the table gets one rough “~” number you can accept or change.