Menchikatsu – The Best Fried Beef Ball in the Universe

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Posted 2 years, 8 months ago at 6:07 pm. 2 comments

Update 1: Wait, a menchikatsu is a deep fried ball of minced meat, not a korroke technically. Okay, it makes sense now. “Menchi”, minced.

I feel kind of silly blogging about fried beef balls, but this is no regular korroke; this is the famous メンチカツ(menchikatsu) made with 松阪(Matsuzaka) beef that people wait in line an hour for.

I have seen it so many times on TV (YouTube link, note the lineup), travel books and websites. I have always wanted to try it, but I could never locate Satou Steak House whenever I went to 吉祥寺(Kichijouji). The directions given to me have always been along the line, “It is where you find the super long lineup.”

I went there at 10-ish on a weekday and I was 10th in line. Not bad. Look what happened an hour later.

Now the meat:

You can’t hate me for this. Can you?

I am not a big fan of korroke or fried food in general, but this was zomg juicy and delicious. Simply the best korroke I have ever had. You know something is delicious when you can remember the taste of it weeks later by looking at the pictures. I rank this higher than the “Horai 555″ buns, which are also very deliciously(and wrongfully) fatty.

I did not expect a korroke to be the size of a baseball. I felt pretty disgusted for the rest of the day after I finished the two I got.

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