If you like meat, there is no one who doesn't know, Nishigotanda's hamburger & steak restaurant " Meat Yazawa ". The Tonkatsu restaurant "Agefuku" opened right next to it. It seems that it is an affiliated store of Meat Yazawa, which is also very popular among meat freaks.

Now that I know the deliciousness of meat Yazawa's meat, I can't help but go to "Agefuku". It's still hot outside, so I went for a late lunch so I didn't have to line up as much as possible!


I visited after 13:00, but the counter and table seats were full! Maybe I'm lucky just to put it in without lining up ... Apparently, there are many men and women who use it for lunch for one business person.

By the way, today I was looking for a lunchtime limited "Big Wagyu Menchi-katsu" (1,150 yen), but it was sold out. (Garn ...!) I really wanted to eat Wagyu Menchi, so I ordered the "Chicken Katsu Combo" (1,150 yen) containing Wagyu Menchi Katsu (small). By the way, you can also choose top fillet or fried natural shrimp instead of Wagyu beef menchi.


It took less than 10 minutes to wait, and a set meal of freshly fried chicken cutlet and Japanese beef menchi-katsu was delivered. Free refills of cabbage with rice. The bowl is not miso soup, but "pork soup" with plenty of burdock, radish, carrots, and pork.



First of all, I will try to stick to the hot chicken cutlet. "Crispy!" ... This is the texture of the batter that I have never experienced before! It's crispy and crispy, but soft and soft, like a snowflake . It certainly has a light texture, but it's fragile that it melts in your mouth immediately afterwards.


The chicken fillet wrapped in delicate clothes is so tender that you might wonder, "Is this really chicken fillet?" It's just barely fried so that the fire goes through to the center, and you can toss it on your tongue with the meat juice that overflows with each bite. The ideal golden ratio is the balance of umami, saltiness and fat!

Once you eat the chicken cutlet of Agefuku, you may not be able to eat it anywhere else. The chicken cutlet was so delicious that I thought it was like that.


Next, the long-awaited Wagyu Menchi-katsu! Although I say "small", I have a large fist. By the way, "Big Wagyu Menchi-katsu" is about 1.5 times the size.

When I broke it with chopsticks, the water of life (= gravy) flowed out beautifully like the Oirase Gorge while reflecting the light from the inside.


This beautiful scene is exactly the same as when I snapped a Japanese black beef hamburger steak at Meet Yazawa. It looks like that gravy hamburger is dressed and fried!

I hurry and carry it to my mouth before the gravy escapes. Compared to chicken katsu, the batter has a slightly firmer texture. The Japanese beef that emerges from it is fatty and soft, but it has a chewy texture that is full of umami. Expressed only with onomatopoeia, it is " sakutsu (clothes), fluffy (meat), juwa ~ (gravy) ".


Even so, too much gravy! Endlessly full of the water of life. This may be a new genre of food that is different from the Menchi-katsu I know.

The set meal comes with grated ginger "ginger sauce" and thick and thick "tartar sauce" in a small plate, but the first bite should be eaten as it is without adding anything, and the clothes and Please try to taste the deliciousness of the meat directly.

That's why I noticed it after I left the store with great satisfaction. Even though it's a pork cutlet shop, I haven't eaten pork cutlet ... Next time I would like to eat "Tonkatsu" properly and report! (I'm really sorry!)