Wagamama Hot Katsu Sauce

Wagamama hot katsu sauce costs £1.20 and carries 351 kcal, the katsu pot with its chilli awake: the same coconut turmeric silk run hot, and quietly the heaviest single pot on the extras list. Vegan marked like its mild parent.

The heat arrives cooked in rather than scattered over, the same architecture as the hot katsu plate: chilli bloomed with the spices so the warmth builds through every spoonful instead of ambushing the last one. Against the firecracker pot beside it the difference is temperament, this one warming where firecracker bites, coconut where firecracker is sweet vinegar.

The numbers ask a fair glance: 351 kcal and the biggest fat figure on the sauce shelf, the coconut spending harder in the hot build, with salt at 3.4 g worth counting into a day. The how much question stays answered at £1.20.

Its audience is the diner who finds the standard katsu a lullaby and the firecracker a quarrel: the middle temperature, sold separately. Poured over the standard chicken katsu it builds the hot plate from parts; over chips it makes the takeaway's best kept secret slightly dangerous.

Order it beside mild plates as the table's heat dial, and note the kids' katsu stays strictly on the mild pot's side of the family. One pot converts one plate; tables of the converted order two.