Tonkatsu Ginza Bairin offers amazing Japanese Tonkatsu. It is probably the best Tonkatsu we have ever had! Tonkatsu Ginza Bairin is located at Beach Walk of Waikiki. It has been in operation since 1927, before World War 2! The restaurant serves mainly Tonktasu related meals such as pork Tonkatsu, chicken Tonkatsu, and tuna Tonkatsu. For people who don't know what Tonkatsu is, it is like tempura fried meat.
We got to the restaurant around 6PM and all the tables were taken. We had to wait for 15 minutes for our table to be ready. We got seats at the bar, where we can see the chefs making Tonkatsu. At the bar, there are also magazines talking about this restaurant and manga (Japanese comic) that talks about Tonkatsu. We don't understand Japanese but we could kind of guess that it is saying how amazing Tonkatsu is.
This time we ordered pork Tonkatsu Don and curry Tonkatsu. Before our main meal arrives, we were served with Japanese style salad and Miso soup. The Miso soup is like the Miso soup from other restaurant. The salad however, came with 2 different type of dressings. The 2 type of dressings are sesame dressing and soy dressing. I have never seen sesame dressings before and it was quite tasty. It was not sour, just a little sweet. In addition, you can ask for any much salad and soup as you want!
After 10 minutes, our main meal have arrived! The Tonkatsus look so amazing! For the curry Tonkatsu, we poured curry onto the Tonkatsu. The Tonkatsu did not lose its crispiness. It was still so crispy and have sweet taste! The batter around the meat is very different from the ones seen in other restaurants!
Tonkatsu Don was amazing as well. The yolk of the egg on the top was still in tact and not broken yet. We loved to see the egg yolk flow through the Tonkatsu. The rice was hot enough to slowly cook the egg yolk. The egg yolk adds additional smoothness texture to the rice and Tonkatsu!
Overall, it was an amazing meal! We were surprised that there weren't many people waiting in line when we finished our dinner around 7PM.
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