This post was written in 2022. Shop details and prices may have changed since then.
Aoki is always mobbed, no matter when you turn up..
Which is only natural, I’d say, when the food is this good..
I sat down and there was a sign asking everyone to eat in silence.
Not that I had anyone to talk to, coming here on my own..
The menu
It was a special day (payday, that is..), so I ordered the 1,800 yen katarosu katsu set, the shoulder loin. (There’s a 2,800 yen riburosu as well, but I had no confidence I could put away 400 grams..)
Kuki-wasabi, chopped wasabi stems
An absolute must for eating this place’s tonkatsu.
The katarosu katsu set
It fills you up just to look at it.
The cross-section
The higher up the menu you go here, the fattier the pork gets. That can get a bit heavy, which is exactly why you use the wasabi. Anyway, by way of celebration, I ate the whole thing and came away thoroughly happy.
Tonjiru
They do a good job of this too.