However, such meat-based dishes as sukiyaki (thin slices of beef, cooked with various vegetables on a table-top cast-iron pan) and gyudon are considered being included in the category of nihon-ryori, because they are specific to Japan from a foreign point of view.
しかし、外国から見た場合、すき焼きや牛丼などの肉料理もまた日本独特であるから日本料理の範疇に入る。