Before his mother’s return, he dusted the thin meat slices in the fridge with flour and made “tonkatsu,” breaded deep-fried pork cutlet, by remembering how his mother had cooked it.
The eatery, established in 1965 in the Hibiya Mitsui Building in Tokyo, has built and forged its identity off the back of its famed tonkatsu pork cutlets. To this day, serpentine queues trail ...