Menchi-katsu

Menchi-katsu means fried cake of minced meat. Firstly you add minced onions to minced meat and mix them thoroughly. Then you shape them into an oval. You make them be worn with wheat four, beaten egg and bread crumbs. Finally you fry them in salad oil. It looks like a hamburg steak. But Menchi-katsu is originally made in Japan.

Mechi-katsu is called Minchi-katsu in Osaka. People in Osaka call minced meat “Minchi” in Japanese. So to call fried cake of minced meat “Minchi-katsu” is reasonable. Actually I did not understand what “Menchi-katsu” is for the first time in Tokyo because I came from Osaka. To understand dialect is so difficult.