Butadon, which features sliced pork and onions, is a quick donburi (rice bowl) to make ... buy pre-sliced pork – the kind for Japanese barbecue, not the thinly sliced meat for shabu-shabu ...

But you can really use all kinds of rice to make fried rice — that's part of the beauty. Japanese-style fried rice, for example, tends to use Japanese short-grain rice, and medium-grain white ...