On 8/13/2014 2:24 PM, sf wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:05:16 -1000, dsi1
> > wrote:
>
>> Sounds good to me. I don't do anything creative with panko - I just
>> bread stuff and fry it. Kinda boring actually. Hawaii probably uses more
>> panko than any other state in the union. We need a lot of it because our
>> favorite dish is chicken katsu. If you eat chicken katsu, you need
>> tonkatsu sauce. We probably consume more tonkatsu sauce than any other
>> state in the union too. My guess is that tonkatsu sauce is similar to HP
>> sauce except it's sweeter.
>>
>> My guess is that one day, the mainland will discover chicken katsu and
>> it's gonna take over the chicken frying business.
>>
>>
> We have it on the mainland. Hubby usually orders the pork version,
> but he HATES tonkatsu sauce. I am not a big fried food person, so I
> don't order that. I do like tempura when it's a very light batter.
>
>

When I was a kid, I used to love pork tonkatsu and never ate chicken
katsu. I can't say if the dish even existed. Sometime during the 80s, it
all changed and you can't find tonkatsu in most restaurants anymore.
That's the breaks. Here's the most awesome katsu on the planet
Mille-Feuille tonkatsu.

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