[steven]

I usually put an umeboshi on it when I eat it (especially in the morning). It's good plain, too. I also like it with tsukemono.

I'm surprised though, this being "japan forum" and all... does anyone crack a raw egg on their rice? I've heard that a lot of people do that around here (and it's not bad if you've got good eggs). I do that sometimes when I get eggs from the local chicken farm people in the mountains nearby.

Pretty much anything goes good with the rice I eat-- I can't complain, I got 30kg from my girlfriend's parents.

I've always heard that putting straight soy-sauce on your rice is weird (from Japanese/Japanese Americans). I used to eat it that way when I was a kid, but I think I grew out of it somehow. When I told my girlfriend that my bro drenches his rice with soy sauce she tried it herself and actually kinda liked it, but said it reminded her of "poor people", or the "olden days" (of world war 2).

That brings up something interesting... I have a theory that putting soy sauce on rice might've come from Japan during the occupation as there were plenty of Americans there and it was a relaively poor (monitarily speaking) point in Japan's history. If that's the case, then the idea of putting straight soy sauce on rice like that came from Japan, and now Japanese people look at Americans for being weird for doing that (not that too many Japanese people know that Americans do that or anything).

Does anyone have any info on that? I thought it was an interesting idea.