Due to the typhoon, our schedule was frequently changed and one day we found ourselves in Odawara with no restaurant plan. Our tour company scrambled and sent us to a typical tonkatsu (fried pork cutlet) place, where we ate very well indeed.
Here we are at this simple place, ordering and eating happily, whether
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| Our group at a typical tonkatsu restaurant |
tonkatsu (pork cutlet) served classically with astonishing amounts of shredded cabbage that you somehow finish,
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| Tonkatsu |
or okonomiyaki (omelet)
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| Okonomiyaki |
in an atmosphere of kitsch, with bread scuptures made by the owners of this family-run place.
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| Bread sculptures at tonkatsu place |
These were so charming that I took this bread pig as a gift and kept if for the remainder of our trip.
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| My very own bread pig from the tonkatsu place |
What a pleasure!
Bobby Jay
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