Someone clearly hasn't eaten good rice.
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Jukain-- I generally don't put sauce on rice, because I feel like the meat's flavor should even out with the rice, and sauce on rice makes it too salty; also makes the rice kind of salty. I won't put A1 straight on my rice, but rice and A1 covered steak is going in my mouth at the same time so it's effectively the same thing. I just feel you can't control the amount of sauce as much if you put it on the rice because rice is granulous.
That said, it's all going in your mouth together, so it doesn't really matter-- lots of people like to put stuff on their rice.
In Hawaii it's pretty common to put Shoyu (soy sauce) on rice, but lots of people even put ketchup on it. Ketchup I used to do as a kid, but kind of grew out of it. With Chinese food, as a kid, almost every dish's sauce tasted really good on rice to me-- especially steam'd fish's oil/soy sauce.
Dunno, sauce on rice feels soggy to me now, but it might just be a stigma of Japanese cultural influence.
Oh, btw, the Japanese usually put a powder called furikake on rice for kids. Adults sometimes like it too, especially in
ochazuke (rice with tea poured on it, usually eaten with Umeboshi (pickled plum) or salmon). My cousins love Natto with it (fermented beans) but I can't stand it.
Furikake is also good on
Onigiri (rice balls), though in Hawaii we call them Musubi.
Omusubi is the older phrase not commonly used in Japan anymore, but because we local Japanese have been here for generations, many of the expressions we use are from very old Japanese. In Hawaii, Furikake is also a popular Pop Corn topping.
Examples:
Ochazuke:
(the furikake is the green powdery stuff)
Onigiri:
(with purple furikake made of plum powder on left, and normal seaweed furikake on right-- both have pickled plums in the middle)
Spam Musubi with Furikake
(a favorite thing in Hawaii, though you don't NEED the furikake)
Got them grill marks on the spam :D
"Tornado" Popcorn
(Hawaii trick of mixing Furikake and kakimochi into popcorn)
Man, that was a ridiculous tangent. So is this:
Pokemon Furikake