🍚 Sauce Katsu-don (Pork cutlet with Thick Sauce on Rice)

Gunma is well-known for pork, as there are more than 30 kinds of brand pork there. They have unique ways to breed to pursue the high-quality and tasty pork; for example, ‘Mugibuta' is bred by feeding wheat grown in the prefecture. Especially, Maebashi City boasts its top-class of production of pork. Therefore, pork dish takes root in the prefecture, ‘tonkatsu' (=pork cutlet) , one of typical pork dish, is served at many homes and restaurants. It is served not only as it is, but also with various menu as ‘katsu curry' (=pork cutlet and curry sauce on top of rice), or ‘katsu-sando' (=cutlet sandwich). In particular, ‘Sauce Katsu-don' is popular by the locals as their beloved local food. It is said that its origin is an eel restaurant. The restaurant mixed traditional eel sauce with Worcester sauce to make its unique sauce and used for ‘sauce katsu-don', and the dish became very popular. The restaurant serving ‘sauce katsu-don' has been increasing since then.