Entries about kaiyukan

This dish is pretty well known all over Japan and 3 of its prefectures: Gunma, Nagano and Fukui all has their own signature way of making this great dish. In this blog post I'll be talking about specifically the Fukui style sauce Katsu don. So what is sauce katsu don? Well, to know about that you first have to know what a katsu don is. A katsu don is basically deep fried pork cutlet over rice. Usually they like to use a thick cut of pork sirloin to make the cutlet and then batter it and covering it with panko bread crumbs before deep frying it. Now sauce katsu don is basically the same thing but the deep fried pork cutlet itself is dipped in a sweet sauce (the sauce varies depending on the region you're eating it). In the Fukui style sauce katsudon, they have 3 slices of katsu (2 pieces of pork thigh meat cutlet and 1 piece of pork sirloin cutlet). Since the pork cutlets are thinly sliced, the meat stays juicy and tender but also maintain the crispiness from the deep-frying.

Oroshi soba is another really famous dish in Fukui. It is basically cold soba noodles with grated radish and katsuo as toppings. Unlike the normal type of soba where you have a sauce dish and you're suppose to take some noodles and dip it in, here you pour the sauce right in to the soba noodle dish itself and eat it. At the end you can pour the remaining juice in the soba plate to the sobayu (the water they boiled the soba in) and drink it.

• Important: Some restaurants might have sobayu provided and some not.

Beni-shouga is one of the most famous side dishes in Japanese culture when eating gyu-don (beef rice bowl). Beni-shouga is the neon pinkish pickles ginger shreds that is commonly found in gyudonya san (shop that serves beef rice bowls) and is almost always all you can eat. They all so sell it in supermarkets all over Japan. However, Osaka is the #1 city in Japan in devouring these pickled delicacy. Due to the popularity of it in Osaka,, it is not uncommon for people to develop new ways of using or cooking with beni-shouga. The most uncommon food where you can only find in Osaka is the beni-shouga tempura. They cut the beni-shouga into thinly sliced medallions, put 2 on a skewer and deep fry them tempura style. If you like beni-shouga or strong ginger taste then this yummy tempura is a must try.

Beni-shouga Tempura

inside of beni-shouga tempura