Katsu â a piece of meat, seafood, or vegetable, coated with flour, egg, and panko breadcrumbs, deep-fried, and cut into strips â is considered a boomerang word, a case of reborrowing: katsu is the shortened form of katsuretsu, which is a borrowing into Japanese of the English word âcutletâ.
Donburi - a Japanese dish consisting of rice topped with other ingredients, is also used to describe the bowl in which this dish is served.
Omotenashi - which describes good hospitality, characterised by âthoughtfulness, close attention to detail, and the anticipation of a guestâs needsâ.
Kintsugi - the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by joining pieces back together and filling cracks with lacquer dusted with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, highlighting the flaws in the mended object
Isekai - a Japanese genre of fantasy fiction involving a character being transported to or reincarnated in a different, strange, or unfamiliar world.
Donburi - a Japanese dish consisting of rice topped with other ingredients, is also used to describe the bowl in which this dish is served.
Omotenashi - which describes good hospitality, characterised by âthoughtfulness, close attention to detail, and the anticipation of a guestâs needsâ.
Kintsugi - the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by joining pieces back together and filling cracks with lacquer dusted with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, highlighting the flaws in the mended object
Isekai - a Japanese genre of fantasy fiction involving a character being transported to or reincarnated in a different, strange, or unfamiliar world.