Flushing: Casting a Wider Net at Tong Tong Tonkatsu

Tong Tong Tonkatsu,a Korean ode to the classic Japanese dish, resides in a small one story building on Northern and 147th St. Years ago this space was occupied by a cozy little pojangmacha (Korean drinking hall) that featured ridiculously cheap booze, grubby menus, terrible food and a divey atmosphere suitable for boisterous drinking followed by a nasty hangover.

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5 Comments | Posted by Chris Hansen, February 2, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Tagged: Flushing, Flushing Eats, Queens, tong tong, tong tong tonkatsu, tonkatsu

So, So Want: Cheese-Stuffed Tonkatsu at Katsu-Hama

Photograph by Robyn Lee ZOMG! Robyn Lee has been holding out on us. This vital bit of porky, cheesy intel has been languishing in her Flickr photo collection for almost a week. The New York Times and Ed Levine...

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4 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, October 29, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Tagged: awesome, deep-fried, Japanese, katsu, Katsu-Hama, Manhattan, Midtown, Midtown East, pork, so so want, tonkatsu