'Omurice', comfort food for Japanese and Koreans, a symbol of warmer ties

People form a line as they try to have lunch at Rengatei, a popular and long-established restaurant specialising in Japanese-style Western dishes, at Ginza district in Tokyo, Japan March 16, 2023. REUTERS/Issei Kato

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nearly everything about South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's first summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo will be scrutinised for signs of warmer bilateral ties, including a shared meal of a Tokyo classic called omurice.

The dish, whose name is a mash-up of omelette and rice, has become the talk of the town since Japan's Fuji TV reported on Monday of a hushed plan for Kishida to treat Yoon at Rengatei, the storied but no-frills restaurant that invented it.