Tonkatsu

Hotcurrie
Hotcurrie
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3 out of 5
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Tonkatsu

  • January 19, 2005
  • Rated 3 of 5 by Hotcurrie from Perth, Australia
Restaurant - Tonkatsu

This restaurant specialises in pork cutlets. We went to this restaurant located on the seventh floor of the Nagoya train station. We found a "food court" on the north end of the station on the seventh floor that had about 20 or so separate individual restaurants (so not a typical western-style food court).

The menus were only available in Japanese, but they had excellent pictures, so we were able to point to what we wanted. Each of the dishes was a combo, coming with the main dish (pork), a bowl of steamed rice, a bowl of seafood soup, and a small bowl of a unrecognised pickled vegetable (which wasn't bad).

I had a pork combo, and Sal had a mixed combo of pork, chicken, and beef. The meat is coated in a batter that is a cross between a crumbed and a tempura batter and then it is deep-fried. When eaten with a cup of the complimentary Japanese tea, it isn't very oily and is rather nice.

It is served with a big pile of raw cabbage. I thought this was a bit bland until our waitress pointed out the bottle of dressing on the table that is for the cabbage. It is hard to described the taste of the dressing, but it was very nice - a clear reddish colour and a little sweet.

It was so different and nice that Sal tried to explain to the waitress that she wanted to buy some and wanted to know what it was called. Anyway, after some backwards and forwards with the phrase book, the waitress bought out a bottle and added ¥300 to the bill. Close enough!!

Each of the combos cost between ¥900 and ¥1,500.

From journal Nagoya, a diverse and beautiful place to visit, bu

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