One of the surprises of eating out in Japan for me was how many restaurants offered 'setto' dishes, where a main dish was acccompanied by specific and appropriate side, for one, usually very reasonable, price. I'm coming to understand how the interplay of dishes is an important part of Japanese food and was helped in this by S putting together a meal of domburi, daikon salad and daikon kimchi. Domburi is a dish which I'm coming more and more to love - there's something wonderful about its creamy, salty savouriness - and it its charms are neatly expressed through the contrast with daikon two ways. The crunchiness of the daikon contrasts completely with the softness of the domburi, whilst the freshness and zing of daikon could not be more different to the richness of the domburi.
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