Misokatsu Yabaton Yabachō Honten — Restaurant in Nagoya

3.5 stars Venue: A few minutes walk from the closest subway. Very attractive looking building. A big pig status outside. There is a souvenir corner. Always full. Come before 5 pm to avoid queue (from outside to second floor). People in the queue started reading the menu. There was a lift, but we needed to walk upstairs. Some tables upstairs have better window views. Packed. --- 7/10 Service: busy but efficient. Polite staff. Wait to be seated at the stairs. Seated soon. There was a big jar of green tea, seasonings, pickles, and wet tissues on the table. We were given chilled green tea and the Japanese menu only. Waitpersons will come to take orders at the table. Food served fast. Paid on the ground floor. --- 7.4/10 F&B: Menu with big photos and main ingredients. Normal presentation. Normal portion. Good value. Deep-fried Shrimp with Rice and Pork Curry Sauce, ¥1790 (incl. tax): served with pickles and potato salad. There are many pork slices in the sweet curry sauce. --- 7/10 Waraji Tonkatsu Pork Cutlet, ¥1900 (incl tax): including lotus root pickles, miso soup, and rice. Can choose "half and half." That's a homemade Worcester sauce on one half, and red miso sauce will be poured onto the other half jambo deep-fried pork cutlet when served. The sauces were good with rice. Rice was well-cooked. Can refill rice and cabbage. Pork with some fat, but a bit dry and slightly chewy for 2-3...

Been a while since I posted. Happy to contribute to the foodie community again. So, this is one of the famous Miso Tonkatsu that Nagoya is known for. Queue was roughly 30mins at 3pm non peak hours on a summer non peak tourist season, acceptable. the miso is poured onto the tonkatsu when they serve, and the teppan tonkatsu option will sizzle which makes for better photos haha, it also keeps the tonkatsu warm for a longer time. To be frank. i find the tonkatsu very normal, without the miso, i would even say Saboten is better. The meat is tough and chewy, and doesnt have much flavour on its own without the miso. The good thing is they have a variety of condiments and seasonings on every table, one amazing thing is the perilla oil dressing which really helps enhance the flavour and prevent it from being dull. I ate almost every piece of tonkatsu with either wasabi or the perilla oil. they take away your plates immediately after you are finished, so don expect to stay too long as the queue is long and we gotta make space for others. Overall, its a good place to try miso tonkatsu, but its a "visit once is enough" kind of place. its arnd RM60...

Avg review should be more than 4 stars. This place is awesome. The long line makes this very obvious. Luckily, if you're eating alone like me, you get to be seated at the counter on first floor, bypassing the long line up the stairs. I was maybe 5 people away from the outside door and got sat down within 10 minutes.

Both the plain with sauce and the miso crusted filets were amazing. If I had to choose, I'd just go with plain with sauce as that created a bigger flavor impact to me at least, but you have to try both.

Downsides: the salad with dressing was terrible. I don't know if they accidentally mixed table cleaning solution with dressing or what but it had a very chemical taste. I recommend tasting a little bit of dressing before going all in on the salad.

Also the miso soup had a very off fishy smell. I don't trust it.

But they nailed the hero of the plate so it deserves...