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This train station bento boxed lunch shop has been in business for nearly 100 years
- Casey Baseel
May 9, 2026 - Tweet
Inside Chiba Station, Manyoken is a piece of edible history.
- Japan
- (bento • bento boxes • boxed lunches • Chiba • COK • cool • food • old restaurants • pork cutlet • SNJO • stations • taste test • tonkatsu • trains)
Here comes a new katsudon: ice cream katsudon?!?
- Casey Baseel
Feb 4, 2026
Casual Japanese restaurant chain creates a new genre of pork cutlet bowls.
- Japan
- (Coolish • crazy • food • Fuji Soba • ice cream • katsudon • Lotte • pork cutlet • pork cutlet bowl • restaurants • sweets • weird)
Hidden travel gems of northern east Japan, presented by the Kita Kanto Brothers!【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 2, 2025
Our northern Kanto reporters team up and head to Gunma for a look at this part of Japan that gets overlooked by tourists.
- Japan
- (Calpico • Calpis • COK • food • Gunma • Kanto • katsu • Kita Kanto • Kita Kanto Bros. • Kita Kanto Brothers • Masanuki Sunakoma • north Kanto • northern Kanto • pork cutlet • SNJO • Takamichi Furusawa • Tanuki • Tatebayashi • temples • tonkatsu • tourism • travel)
Is katsudon a dish best served cold? Trying out the new Hiyashi Dashi Katsudon in Tokyo【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 29, 2025
West Japan pork cutlet chain has arrived in Tokyo, and it’s brought something unusual for the summer.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • food • katsu • katsudon • pork cutlet • pork cutlet bowl • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • weird)
Good-cop interrogation part of the menu at new restaurant in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Jul 4, 2025
“Hey, this must be really hard for you. How about some katsudon?”
- Japan
- (COK • crime • food • katsu • katsudon • pork cutlet • restaurants • themed restaurants • weird)
Beyond matcha sweets: Japan’s favorite katsu sandwich maker releasing matcha pork cutlet sandwich
- Casey Baseel
May 28, 2025
Masters of their crafts in Tokyo and Kyoto team-up for a very unusual, but very appealing, innovation.
- Japan
- (food • green tea • Iemon • katsu • katsu sandwiches • Maisen • matcha • pork cutlet • sandwiches • Suntory • tea)
Katsu weight showdown! Which Japanese supermarket gives you the most tonkatsu meat for your yen?
- SoraNews24
Nov 12, 2024
We strip four pork cutlets down to their fighting weights and see who’s got the most meat inside.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • experiment • food • funny • katsu • pork cutlet • SNJO • tonkatsu)
Foreign tourists go crazy for white tonkatsu in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jul 16, 2024
Restaurant serves up an unusual Japanese dish that’s even surprising locals.
- Japan
- (COK • cutlet • etiquette • food • food hacks • Fukuoka • hacks • Japanese etiquette • Japanese food • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • tonkatsu)
Katsudon vs. tonkatsu vs. katsu sandwich – What’s the best way to eat pork cutlet in Japan?
- Casey Baseel
Apr 20, 2024
Three great ways to enjoy katsu, but when you have to choose one, what’s your pick?
- Japan
- (COK • food • katsu • katsudon • pork • pork cutlet • SNO • tonkatsu • tonkatsu sandwiches)
Hey, Japanese taxi driver! Take us to your favorite restaurant in Tsuruga City!
- Shannon
Apr 15, 2024
We commemorate the new Hokuriku Shinkansen route with a truly local meal.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Fukui • fukui prefecture • Hey Japanese taxi driver • Hey Taxi Driver • Hokuriku Shinkansen • Japanese taxi driver • katsudon • pork cutlet • restaurants • sauce katsu • sauce katsudon • shinkansen • SNJO • tourism • travel • Tsuruga)
The most delicious way to eat tonkatsu blows people’s minds in Japan
- Oona McGee
Feb 21, 2024
Diners are shocked to learn they’ve been eating tonkatsu the wrong way all their lives.
- Japan
- (COK • cutlet • etiquette • food • food hacks • hacks • Japanese etiquette • Japanese food • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • tonkatsu)
Japan Super Budget Dining – What’s the best way to spend 1,000 yen at Fuji Soba?
- Casey Baseel
Dec 5, 2023
There’s more than noodles that’s worth ordering at this ubiquitous soba chain.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Fuji Soba • Japan super budget dining • katsudon • Noodles • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • soba • Super Budget Dining)
Japan’s favorite pork cutlet sandwich maker also has awesome katsudon restaurant in Tokyo Station
- Casey Baseel
Aug 21, 2023
Maisen Shokudo will make sure you get on the train with a full and happy stomach.
- Japan
- (COK • food • katsu • katsudon • Maisen • pork • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • stations • Tokyo Station • trains • travel)
Restaurant Yoshibei is crazy in the best way: A pork cutlet set with a side of pork cutlet bowl
- Casey Baseel
Aug 14, 2023
Pork cutlet so nice you get to eat it twice.
Tokyo all-you-can-eat tonkatsu pork cutlet restaurant is all we need for a happy meal
- SoraNews24
Jul 31, 2023
Free refills are often part of the deal at tonkatsu joints, but usually not for the cutlets themselves.
- Japan
- (all-you-can-eat • COK • cutlet • food • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • tonkatsu)
Japanese convenience store sells an epic egg sandwich you won’t find anywhere else
- Oona McGee
May 8, 2023
Konbini food just reached new levels of awesomeness, thanks to one very special chain.
- Japan
- (COK • combini • convenience store • convenience store food • egg sandwiches • ham katsu • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese sandwiches • konbini • pork cutlet • sandwiches • Seico Mart • Seicomart • SNJO • taste test)
Tokyo family serves totally non-traditional super old-school katsudon at century-old restaurant
- Casey Baseel
Mar 31, 2023
The Kojima family’s pork cutlet bowl recipe is both startlingly innovative and really, really old.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • food • history • katsu • katsudon • Ningyocho • pork cutlet • restaurants • SNJO • weird)
Katsu curry rice you can eat with your hands? Mos Burger unveils new Rice Burger Katsu Curry
- Casey Baseel
Mar 12, 2023
One thing might prevent this from being one of the greatest sandwiches ever made, though.
- Japan
- (burgers • COK • curry • curry rice • food • katsu • katsu curry • Mos Burger • pork cutlet • rice burgers)
In our search for crispy katsudon, we try a highly recommended place in a Tokyo university town
- Dale Roll
Jan 27, 2023
But reviews had us concerned about whether it offered what we wanted or not.
- Japan
- (katsu • katsudon • pork cutlet • Rice Bowl • Seiji Nakazawa • Takadanobaba • Tokyo)
Eating Japanese katsudon once served in police interrogation rooms
- SoraNews24
Nov 18, 2022
A surprising taste of history in Tokyo.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • katsu • katsudon • police • pork cutlet • restaurats • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • tonkatsu)
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