Always a sucker for free tea.

Ordered the “everything combo” which is pork or chicken cutlet with extra fried shrimp and fish on top. The amount of food you get is indeed quite a bit. I ate half and then finished the rest for lunch next day.

Two meals in one, what a deal.

They offer 3 levels of spice with their sauce, and I went with 2. It’s got nice flavour, and the spice kicks in just right. I recently found out I can’t handle super spicy food during a katsuya food challenge, but this was very good.

Haven’t had an opportunity to dine in yet so not sure what the service will be like, but as far as food goes, I can say it’s pretty good.

Ordered Everything Set A ( shrimp, fish & pork) with spicy level 3(it was very much tolerable) for a take out. It came with 3 big pieces of shrimp, 1 fish and 5-6 big pieces of pork. Their breading from fresh bread makes their katsu really stands out. I had a very memorable cruchy ASMR moment. All three protein( pork, fish and shrimp) quality was excellent as well.

Rice portion size seem a little skimpy even though, there is no way I could finish the whole Set A dish in one sitting. Thier rice serving size might offend some Asian community when this newly opened location is very close to China Town. If you order extra rice, there is a charge of $3.

At the same time very generous amount of pseudo-demi-glace sauce( gravy) was provided, I could use leftover sauce for fried dumpling dipping sauce or something. I would definately order more cabbage salad( maybe three times more) next time cause I love eating a lot of raw cabbage salad with my katsu.

Also it would be nice if they have small size clear soup on the menu to with katsu. I only see the option of cream soup($6.99) or big oden soup($16.99). Unfortunately they don’t have their famous jjamppong in this location. Owner confirmed that they don’t have plan to have jjamppong in this location in the near future. [Yelp]

Everything Set B ($26.95): This set comes with chicken katsu, fish katsu and shrimp katsu. The portions are bigger so you may need to share or have lots of leftovers after! The exterior was really crispy however, I found the sauce was a bit ordinary. The major downside I found the portions of the rice and salad really small especially for what you pay.

Overall, it was an alright experience. It wasn’t bad but wasn’t extraordinary to revisit again. The service was pretty quick and convenient location in Downtown. [Yelp]