Tonkatsuya

I was so happy when Mykie contacted me to share with us his latest discovery!!!  TONKATSU resto in Manila!! We love tonkatsu!!

Previous entries:

Tonkatsu November 10, 2010 

Maisen January 6, 2010 

A place in San Antonio Village in the basement of a building!!

James and I gladly joined Mykie and Keiko on this adventure!  That’s Mykie, Keiko and James going down the basement

Not at all fancy….in fact a basement with vacant spaces even

And here it is, literally a hole in the wall 🙂

This is it!  3 tables for dining

one side

and the other side 🙂

Thanks Mykie and Keiko!  Keiko is Japanese 🙂

I was so intrigued to see bottled softdrinks because I hardly see them around anymore

Here is Bella with her Japanese husband, Chef Hosoya.  Mr. Hosoya was a Tonkatsu Chef for 30 years in Japan!

The menu.   No frills place, means no frills prices 🙂

Oroshi Katsu- Oroshi is just the name of the sauce.  You get all this for P 215.00.  P 180 if plain Tonkatsu 

Here is the sauce which is like a raddish type of sauce 

This is the plain tonkatsu.  They just use local pork to keep the prices down.  But it was still very good  

And this is the Misu Katsu set- a sweet sauce 

I wanted to try Cheese Katsu, I thought it would be inside, but they just topped it, so it was not what i expected 

I told Mykie I wanted to try using our Vande Rose Pork loin and we did bring our slab!  Aside form the cooking technique, of course the ingredient is key as well.  So the higher quality the pork is, of course the better the taste

 

He cooked it for us and wow, it was so much better.  Duroc pork from the States.  Though the chef recommends that it should have a bit more fat at the end to make it taste better.   We were very satisfied though with what little fat it had

Here it is again, he sliced it thicker than the local portion he makes…. 

I don’t recommend delivery since this dish is fried, so it might not be good anymore

Want to try the adventure?  

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