Okay, so I've eaten many, many deep-fried pork cutlets (tonkatsu) in my life. But when we were in Osaka, we saw a lot of locals enter gyukatsu (deep-fried beef cutlet) restaurants and I got curious because it's not nearly as popular as it's pork counterpart, at least outside of Japan. But we didn't have enough time (or, rather, stomach space) to try it there, so I was determined to get it while here in Tokyo, and I found it at Gyukatsu Motomura:
Gyukatsu set meal
Gyukatsu cooking on a hot stone
IT'S A WHOLE NEW WORLD. Unlike tonkatsu, which is fully cooked to serve (obviously, since it's pork), gyukatsu is served seared so the breading is crispy, but the meat itself is rare. There is a hot stone over a fire that you place the beef on to cook to your preferred doneness, and beef tallow is added to "make it more delicious" (IT IS DEFINITELY MORE DELICIOUS). The set is served with two types of sauce (which you can add wasabi to), cabbage salad, potato salad, rice, miso soup, and kinako mochi for dessert. We got 1.5 servings of beef because we're fat-asses, but NO REGRETS BECAUSE IT IS EVERYTHING I HOPED IT WOULD BE AND MORE. Honestly, one of the best meals I've had on this trip so far. 10/10, SUPER OISHI, HIGHLY RECOMMEND!
Gyukatsu Motomura
7 Chome−1−2 川安ビル B1F
Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku City
Tokyo, Japan 〒160-0023
+81-03-6279-2899
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