Eh, dinner eat what~: Tonkatsu (とんかつ)

Been busy and hasting throughout the weekdays?

Why not treat yourself a little more better in this lovely day?

Where to head to?

Tonkatsu @ Pavillion

* P.S. is a Non- halal restaurant.

Well, とんかつ (tonkatsu) actually means that "pork chop" where "ton" = pork and "katsu" = cutlet. Even though is named so but there is still other choices like chicken katsu, soba and etc.

Unlike other Japanese restaurant, they didn't served sushi. Instead of serving sushi, they are famous with their katsu (deep-fry cutlet). But wait... ( Continue after "First Thing You Must Do")

"First Thing You Must Do"

After you placed your order, since you gotta wait for your food to served, you can actually make your own sesame paste. The materials and ingredients are ready on the table,

So let's move on to the preparation part. The tutorial is as shown below.

Is an interesting and memorable experience as when you grind the sesame, you can smell the fragrant of sesame. Till the moment you satisfied with your grinned sesame, you just needed to add in the Japanese Worcestershire sauce to complete your sesame paste.

(Let's resume) This sesame paste is actually the dipping sauce of the katsu. It add on some sweet taste with fragrant sesame smell on the deep-fry crispy katsu.

For the set of katsu, it is served with some sliced cabbage, a bowl of miso soup, a piece of toufu, eggplant pickles and a bowl of rice. But wait... ( Continue after "Second Thing To Do")

"Second Thing To Do"

When your set is served, you can actually add on some flavored oil on your sliced cabbage to enhance the taste of the cabbage. Besides, the cabbage is refillable.

(Back to katsu) I strongly recommend this dish, Buta Shogayaki Zen because it is something that you'll never try in other restaurant. It is actually fry kimchi with sliced pork. Is not as weird like it sounded, instead it is delicious. With some spicy and salty of kimchi and the pan saute belly, you'll enjoy this dish to the max.

*RM 26

The next dish is Rosu Katsu Zen. I personally don't really like it because the sliced katsu got a bit hard due to the bread crumbs. Anyway, overall it still taste marvelous.

*RM 27

To all the prawn lovers, Hire katsu + Ebi Furai Zen is meant for you!

A layer of bread crumbs is coated on the prawn which add on the crispy taste to the crunchy and fresh prawn. Complement with the other side dishes, this set is irresistible.

*RM 29

For those who doesn't like spicy food yet dying to lunch at this restaurant, Hire Katsu Zen might be your choice. It is alike with buta shogayaki but without the kimchi taste.

*RM 29

This is the Katsu Soba that I ordered. There is a half piece of hard-boiled egg, some vege and bamboo shoots come along with the soba, slices of katsu that served on rack and some chilies powdered in case you want you soba soup to be spicy. I considered it as a enormous set because the bowl of soba is very big but yet very nice. For me, the soup id not too sweet, not too salty, just fall at the right place.