Japan continues to set the bar for ingenious excellence within the discipline of KitKats.
In a means, kushi katsu is Japan’s most self-descriptive meals, because it interprets to “cutlet on a skewer.” Then again, you would say that kushi katsu is one in every of Japan’s most vaguely named meals, since not like katsu curry or katsudon (cutlet bowl), which with out some other descriptors discuss with pork cutlets, kushi katsu eating places serve absolutely anything so long as it’s deep-fried and on a stick, together with meats, seafood, greens, and, within the case of 1 restaurant chain, KitKats.
Final 12 months, Kushi Katsu Tanaka supplied KitKat kushi katsu for the primary time, impressed by the similarities between the Japanese pronunciation of KitKat (“Kittokatto”), “Kitto katsu” (the Japanese phrase which means “I imagine you’ll succeed” that turned KitKats into a well-liked good-luck present), and the restaurant’s signature dish, kushi katsu. Even with Japan’s legendary love of particular KitKat varieties, KitKat kushi katsu was a daring transfer, however it turned out to be a scrumptious one too, receiving extraordinarily constructive suggestions from clients throughout their limited-time availability, so Kushi Katsu will quickly be bringing the deep-fried KitKat skewers again, with some new extra-special flavors added to the combination.
The usual Kitto Kushi Katsu KitKat (180 yen [US$1.30] is returning, as is the Kitto Kushi Katsu KitKat Banana (200 yen) which tops the chocolate wafers with banana slices earlier than frying (each are pictured above). Final 12 months’s yogurt and corn flake KitKat skewer appears to have been a bit too on the market for sweets followers’ palates, because it’s been minimize from the lineup, however we doubt too many tears can be shed because it’s being changed with the brand new Kitto Kushi Katsu KitKat Matcha Anko (240 yen).
This extra-Japanese dessert begins with an Grownup Sweetness Wealthy Matcha KitKat, a part of the Japanese KitKat line that includes a much less sugary, extra refined sweetness. That provides the inexperienced tea notes more room to play in your style buds, the place they’re joined by a masking of anko (candy pink bean paste) earlier than the KitKat is fried, delivering a mixture of bitter, candy, and salty flavors.
There’s extra grownup sweetness coming within the type of the Kitto Kushi Katsu KitKat White Strawberry (240 yen). Right here the bottom is an Grownup Sweetness White Chocolate KitKat, which will get extra-fancy with fiantine (crepe dough) blended into it, after which a sliced strawberry topping earlier than frying, making it the primary KitKat kushi katsu with a tart facet to its taste profile.
The usual, banana, and matcha KitKat kushi katsu all go on sale October 1, with the common and banana variations sticking round till January 31. The matcha one will solely be obtainable till December 8, after which it arms off the deep-fried baton to the white chocolate strawberry KitKat kushi katsu, which can be on sale from December 9 to January 31.
Associated: Kushi Katsu Tanaka location listing
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