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Based on the text below, apparently there is a special type of table in some Japanese restaurants made for eating Katsudon.
どうしてレストランのテーブルにデスクランプがあるんだろう。
デスクランプのあるテーブルを挟んで座るって、なんだか取調室を連想させる。カツ丼専用席だろうか。
But why would tables for eating Katsudon have a light in the middle? Why would you want to lighten up just Katuson and not other foods?
I did some online searches and can't seem to figure out what the reason for this is.
「デスクランプのあるテーブルを挟んで座る」(Sitting face to face at a table/desk with a desk light on it) reminds us of 警察の取り調べ室 (police interrogation room), which is often depicted in fiction like this:
And 取り調べ室 often conjures up a stereotyped image of serving かつ丼 to the suspect:
This is because this situation is (or rather, used to be) often seen in police dramas on TV.
In the real world, however, かつ丼 is never served in a police interrogation room.
