A yoshoku/tonkatsu place located next to Tokyo dome and kourakuen amusement park. Very spacious with forest-ish wooden decor(in a theme park sort of way).
Pickles. A massive bowl of salad. Other than the yuzu and soy sauce dressing on the table, there are three types of salad dressing(menu) you can request for free: sesame seed and miso, grated vegetables, sour plum shiso and mayonnaise. I like sesame seed one the most.
黒毛和牛ハンバーグ定食、￥２１００。
“Black-haired” wagyu hamburger steak set, 2100yen. Also came with beansprout. The waiter rolled out the huge hotplate on a wagon, poured the demi-glace sauce and cut the hamburger in front of you. Rice is mixed with green shiso(aojiso). Salad, rice and miso soup are all refillable.
３種盛り定食、￥１５００。
Wagyu hamburger, crab cream croquette and fried prawn.
特製カツカレー、￥１５００。牛ステーキ定食、￥１６００。
Special katsu(cutlet) curry. Curry sauce is a bit salty but the pork loin katsu is nice.
Beef steak is soft and tender, very good!
てごねかつ定食、￥１２６０。替わりかつ丼、￥１５００。
Minced pork katsu is delicious!
Donburi with pork katsu, tororo(grated yam), pickled veggy. All the ingredients are seasoned so the salt content sort of adds up and overall a bit salty.
海老カツ丼、￥１２００。豚ハンバーグ定食、￥１３００。
Donburi with prawn katsu, veggy and half-cooked egg. The prawn katsu is very good.
Pork hambuger(with grated radish topping) actually tastes better than the more expensive beef hamburger.
石鍋焼きかつ丼（ロース）、￥１５００。盛り合わせフライ定食（串かつ、カニコロッケ）、￥１５００。
Donburi with pork katsu in a hot stone pot. The staff pours the soup to the katsu(also udon at the bottom) and you add the raw egg and seaweed yourself. Choose it only if you like katsu soaked in soup…
Assorted fry: Kushi-katsu(kushi means skewer) with pumpkin, shishitou pepper, onion and pork. Crab cream croquette.
Overall the food is good. Service very friendly. Opens on Sunday and holidays. Only thing is there is no non-smoking seats. The sister restaurant Katsu Kichi next door is non-smoking at lunch time and the menu is similar.
菩提樹 (Bodaiju)
Add: 1-14-3, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tel: 03-3818-1020
Not usually a fan of tonkatsu but this looks great! That’s nice they give you 3 diff types of salad dressing. I’d love to get the ３種盛り定食 or the 海老カツ丼. Look yummy! wouldn’t pouring soup to katsu be kinda killing what it is? When the fried skin get all soggy it wouldn’t be as delicious.
The assorted set wasn’t that great because the crab cream croquette and fried prawn got soggy quickly on a hotplate! Yeah I never understand the Japanese way of deliberately making deep-fried things wet.