The recipe is similar to tamagodon (a bowl of rice topped with soy-sauce-flavored scrambled eggs) and the oyakodon (a bowl of rice topped with chicken and eggs), and it can be regarded as a variant of the latter in which the chicken replaces the pork cutlet.
玉子丼や親子丼とよく似た料理法であり、親子丼の鶏肉をトンカツに変えた応用形とも考えられる。