Intense heat and rain decimated crops, driving up prices and forcing restaurants to reduce tonkatsu servings.

Tokyo - Japan’s much-loved “tonkatsu” pork cutlets come with a mound of freshly shredded cabbage, but a surge in the price of the humble vegetable has prompted chef Katsumi Shinagawa to skimp on ...

Deep-fried dishes were her frequent choices ... he dusted the thin meat slices in the fridge with flour and made “tonkatsu,” breaded deep-fried pork cutlet, by remembering how his mother ...

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TOKYO: Japan's much-loved "tonkatsu" pork cutlets come with a mound of freshly shredded cabbage, but a surge in the price of ...

Many dishes now thought of as quintessentially Japanese are fusions once considered foreign to the country. Gyoza dumplings ...

You can find abura soba in the vicinities of Takadanobaba and Waseda (in Shinjuku ward). Ignoring the rather sadistic etymology of its name (literally, “parent-child rice bowl”), oyako-don is the ...

Set to one side until ready to use For the pork, place the flour, beaten egg and breadcrumbs in three individual dishes ... Serve the pork with the tonkatsu sauce and raw the finely shredded ...

The hire katsu ($28) is probably the most recognisable item on the menu, and also our favourite. It features panko-breaded ...