Tonkatsu Aoki Nihombashi

I had the loin cutlet for lunch. It was cooked well, the meat was moist, and it was delicious. However, moist meat can maintain its crispy coating for a short time. The batter will start to sag in the second half, so turning the meat 90 degrees after serving so that the knife-cut side is facing down will keep the batter crispy for a long time.

Now, I don't have any complaints, but I didn't like the miso soup. It's like pork soup, but there's not a single piece of meat in it. Well, it's good, but it does contain a lot of ginger. Personally, I don't think ginger goes well with miso soup, and since there's a fair amount of ginger in it, it makes my tongue numb when I drink miso soup. The crunchy texture of ginger also feels unpleasant in miso soup. Unusually, I felt positively bad about the miso soup. I would like it to be regular miso soup.

Top loin cutlet set meal/Tonkatsu Aoki Nihonbashi store
Tonkatsu is really good in Tokyo

Haven't the chefs at tonkatsu restaurants in Kyushu ever tried tonkatsu from Tokyo? The taste is different than you might think.

There are very few tonkatsu restaurants in Kyushu that are on the same level as Tokyo, so there are very few that have been selected as one of the top 100 tonkatsu restaurants.
Since they are producing good pork, my opinion is that the artisans should train at tonkatsu restaurants in Tokyo and open more and more good restaurants.

Tonkatsu Ren's pork cutlets are of a high standard, and even though they have multiple stores, they are still delicious.

Okinawa's seawater salt Awakuni's salt is all you need.The meat is so good that it's a waste to put sauce on it.

There was no dressing for the cabbage, so I ate it with sauce.

The pork soup has a lot of ingredients, so I'm happy.

I also had 300g of rib roast, but I had to give it up due to my stomach condition.

It was delicious!

Thank you for the meal

[2023/11/07]
Ticket vending machines only accept cash.

I ordered the top loin cutlet set meal (1,500 yen).
When you purchase a meal ticket from the ticket vending machine, a staff member will guide you to your seat. There seems to be 2nd floor seating, but the 1st floor has 6 counter seats and 1 table seat for 4 people in the back right corner of the store.
Once we were seated, we were served barley tea and a small plate of pickles, and we waited about 5 minutes for the tonkatsu to be fried.

Even though the tonkatsu meat is about 2cm thick, it is still juicy. There was about 1cm of fat, but it didn't taste bitter at all. Well, it's delicious. The way they are fried is probably the same, but the meat itself is probably different.
The seasonings are rich in salt, including 3 types of rock salt and 1 type of sea salt. I tried all kinds, but unfortunately I don't have a sensitive palate, so the sauce was the most delicious.
By the way, Katsuya's sauce pot drips a lot, so I can't help but worry about it, but this sauce pot doesn't drip, so it's very pleasant to use.
Also, I'm glad they had soy sauce. I would like to have the tonkatsu cabbage with soy sauce.

Overall it was very delicious, but the miso soup was not good. I think red miso goes better with pork than white miso. Also, even though the meat was boiled, it was dry and tough. I think it's just a shaped version of tonkatsu, but why is it so delicious when fried but so bad when boiled? I think you could do something with a few tricks, like coating it with potato starch and then boiling it, or slicing it instead of cutting it into cubes...
There are many reviews saying that the pork soup is delicious, so maybe it was just a coincidence?

I should have made it into a bento so I didn't have to think about it too much.