Eating at EarthBound Shops #2

Absolutely! Many an anime fan visits places such as Tokyo U, as well as other places from their favorite anime. We need a list so the Earthbound fan can enjoy a similar experience! =)

I’m surprised that restaurant is still open after all these years. Or maybe I shouldn’t be so surprised since Itoi liked it enough to mention it in his game. :3 I guess it’s that good.

I would totally follow a tour guide if one was made. In fact, my girlfriend would probably enjoy it as well. 😀

All these posts made me want to try the food.
I tried to find tonkatsu looking the menus (on internet) of japanese restaurants around town, but found nothing. I found recipes though!

^ If you’re confident in your cooking skills, you should definitely put a tonkatsu recipe to good use. I made chicken katsu last week (allergic to pork), and even though I couldn’t find any panko bread crumbs and was forced to use the regular kind, they still ended up friggin’ delicious.

That looks delicious

Panko is pretty easy to find in the United States, in my experience. Many supermarkets carry it, even, though you’ll have to look in the “Asian foods” section; they won’t just keep it with the other breadcrumbs.

The main problem with buying panko at retail is that, since Asian foods are so trendy right now, it’s not at all cheap. I buy twenty-pound bags of it for my restaurant, and they’re about $25. At the grocery store, you’ll pay $3.50 for like 2oz.

On the gripping hand, though, they’re useful for lots of other things. If you ever wanted to make your own fried cheese balls/sticks, for instance, panko is ideal for the purpose. It’s also excellent for any sort of fried fish.

なつかしい！

I was about to say yes to this poll.. Then I started thinking.. as a vegatarian, I wouldn’t be able to get the pork cutlets!

the restaurant is “sheng man” (胜漫) in chinese =O

Totally hitting this place up when i travel to Japan =D

Now I’m hungry…

I’m hungry. I’d like three of those! xP

Holy giygas! I want four!

One was pushing it, for me. ^^;

I recently tried Tonkatsu at Kikugawa in Minneapolis, MN exactly because of the EarthBound reference heh heh. It’s not bad, but the tonkatsu prepared in this video looks better than what I had. I got a pretty large serving of two cutlets, heh. The breading or whatever has a good flavor.

I would visit it just for the food, and not just because it was mentioned in Earthbound. Damn I’m so hungry right now.

Looks delicious.

Make the tour! We need instructions for our pilgrimage. Maybe we should include the big hole on the tour?