Mirim Donkatsu

This is a 54-year-old tonkatsu restaurant located near Seomun Market. It has been featured on famous TV programs, and it is so popular that you can hardly eat there without standing in line. The signature menu is a thick, large old-fashioned tonkatsu. This restaurant is even more popular because it makes tonkatsu in the traditional way. Although there is a meat tenderizing machine, they still tenderize the meat with soju bottles and sift corn bread through a sieve to make fine breadcrumbs. The sauce is also made the same way as 54 years ago. The roux that forms the base of the sauce is usually stir-fried with butter, but this restaurant's sauce does not contain butter. That is why it is not greasy and suits Korean tastes well. At the end of making the sauce, they add the seed sauce that the father first created.