tonkatsu
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Japanese Cooking. a dish including a breaded and deep-fried pork cutlet, shredded cabbage, rice, and sauce.
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Japanese Cooking. a breaded and deep-fried pork cutlet; katsu.
Example Sentences
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His katsu sando at Adana also gets special tonkatsu sauce, made in-house — and yes, that sweetish, familiar flavor is ketchup in the mix, along with sesame, too.
From Seattle Times • May 15, 2019
In theory, this sweet barbecue sauce is meant to pair with the fried pork cutlets known as tonkatsu, but ramen chef Ivan Orkin once declared the sludgy stuff perfect for anything fried.
From Slate • Jul. 3, 2018
There’s a ground-floor izakaya restaurant serving tonkatsu, chicken teriyaki, smoked hamachi and chawanmushi, all intended to be accompanied with Asian-accented cocktails.
From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2017
I resist the pull of Daiso, the Japanese dollar store, and head to the top-floor food court, which serves delectables including congee, dumplings, Malaysian laksa and Japanese tonkatsu.
From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2016
My favorite had been tonkatsu, fried panko-crusted pork cutlets with a sweet thick sauce.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
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