{"id":3756,"date":"2015-03-04T21:20:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T05:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2015-03-13T15:49:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T23:49:48","slug":"saboten-aberdeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/saboten-aberdeen\/","title":{"rendered":"Saboten at Aberdeen Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonkatsu is a pretty important part of the Japanese fast food culture, just like hamburger in North America. I love Japanese katsu dishes since I rarely deep fry food at home myself. Last week I received a question from my frend Julie after I posted on Zac Zac Japanese Curry House &#8211; where is the best tonkatsu in the city? I certainly haven&#8217;t had enough of that dish to make a valuable comment, so I have decided to keep an eye on trying more tonkatsu places.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for a quick dinner after badmin, I went to Aberdeen Centre with a couple friends. Arriving at the food court, the first thing caught my eye was Saboten&#8217;s big fancy sign, then the tastefully design stall front, well dressed staff, and spotless open kitchen. All the katsu dishes on the pictures <a style=\"text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal; color:#000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bodytreatmentsite.com\/ \"> accutane online order <\/a> look so authentic and delicious. Hmm how could I resist?<\/p>\n<p>My bowl of Tenderloin Tonkatsu Don ($8.50) came with a small serving of tsukemono (Japanese pickled vegetable), and miso soup. The bowl was small, and the final touch of an egg on top looked rather unappetizing. Not a good first impression. Tonkatsu tasted okay &#8211; the flavours were there but it did not wow me. Jac told me that I should have got their tonkatsu set instead, which is probably a better way to experience their crispy pork cutlet and their famous tonkatsu dipping sauce.<\/p>\n<p>I wish Jac had told me that earlier! Tonkatsu rookie mistake&#8230; Oh well I guess I just have to visit here again.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-custom\" title=\"tenderloin  kartsu don @ saboten\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4183.jpg\" alt=\"tenderloin tonkatsu don @ saboten\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">tenderloin tonkatsu don @ saboten<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-custom\" title=\"saboten @ aberdeen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4184.jpg\" alt=\"saboten at aberdeen\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">saboten at aberdeen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Website:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.saboten.ca\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saboten.ca\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.saboten.ca<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Map and other reviews:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/14\/1645987\/restaurant\/Vancouver\/Central-Richmond\/Saboten-Richmond\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1645987\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Saboten ??? on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonkatsu is a pretty important part of the Japanese fast food culture, just like hamburger in North America. I love Japanese katsu dishes since I rarely deep fry food at home myself. Last week I received a question from my frend Julie after I posted on Zac Zac Japanese Curry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[184,54,97],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4183.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3769,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions\/3769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}