Wagamama Kids Yasai Katsu with Amai Sauce

Wagamama kids yasai katsu with amai sauce costs £5.90 and carries 524 kcal, matching breaded sweet potato and butternut squash with the sweet amai dip instead of the curry sauce. Sticky rice, carrot, cucumber and sweetcorn complete the plate, and the whole thing is marked vegan.

This is the sweetest savoury order on the kids menu, and it knows its audience. Sweet roots inside a crisp crumb, then a sticky sweet and sour dip over the top, lands squarely in the flavour zone most young children live in, and refusals are rare. The raw vegetables balance the plate with something cold and plain, and the sticky rice holds together for inexperienced fork drivers and first time chopstick users alike.

The numbers tell a clear story. The kids yasai katsu with amai sauce calories sit second on the kids menu, just behind the curry sauce version of the same plate, at around a quarter of an adult's 2,000 kcal reference day. Sugar is the standout figure at around 14 g, the highest of the four katsu plates, most of it in the dip, while protein holds around 11 g and salt stays under 1 g. A sensible read for a parent: a filling one off meal out rather than an everyday template, with the dip doing the same job pudding usually does.

The allergen picture is shorter than the curry version: gluten, wheat and soya on the contains line, with barley, sesame and sulphites as the only published traces and no nut entry, though the shared kitchen rule still applies for any medical allergy. Anyone totting up value and asking how much is the kids yasai katsu with amai sauce will find it sits below both chicken katsu plates while leaving a child at least as full. If the meal is going full celebration, the coconut reika ice cream stays inside the plant based lines for pudding, and a cherry blossom lemonade for the table drinks well against the sweet dip.