🍱 Katsumeshi
Katsu-meshi" is a Western-style dish consisting of a flat beef cutlet on top of rice served on a Western-style plate, topped with demi-glace sauce and served with boiled cabbage on the side. It is a local dish of Kakogawa. It was first invented at a diner in town shortly after the war, when beef cutlets were still a rarity, as a Western-style dish that could be easily eaten with chopsticks without a knife and fork. Later, other diners began to offer katsumeshi with a sweet and spicy sauce and other innovations, and the dish spread throughout Kakogawa City. Today, new types of katsumeshi are being introduced, such as using pork, chicken, and shrimp cutlets as well as beef, and offering sauces other than demi-glace sauce. At stores in and around Kakogawa City, one can enjoy a variety of variations, different from store to store.