Wagamama Tonkatsu Pork Bao Buns

Wagamama tonkatsu pork bao buns cost £9.50 and carry 797 kcal, the heaviest pair on the bao list and the most Japanese in construction. Crumbed tonkatsu pork inside steamed buns with apple slaw and a double sauce of korean barbecue and okonomiyaki, the fruit and the crumb doing an old Japanese double act.

Tonkatsu, breaded fried pork cutlet, has been paired with sharp fruit and brown sauce in Japan for over a century; the katsu sandwich, the katsu sando, is practically a national institution. This bao is that idea in bun form: the panko crumb softens slightly against the steamed bao exactly the way sando bread treats it, the apple slaw plays the sharp fruit, and the okonomiyaki sauce brings the sweet Worcestershire depth Japanese brown sauce is loved for.

The pair runs to 797 kcal with around 22 g of protein, the best protein figure on the bao page, and a serious 29 g of sugar from the two sauces. The salt is the bao list's highest, so this is the pair to balance with something green rather than another glazed thing. The price is published by wagamama.

Order logic: this is the bao pair for people who love the katsu curry, since it shares the crumb and comfort logic while eating completely differently, and it is the least spicy pair on the list, with no chilli anywhere in the build. Children who eat the kids katsu graduate to it naturally.

The answer to how much are the tonkatsu bao buns is £9.50 standard with the usual location movement. Wok fried greens beside them supply the freshness the sauces lack, and a ginger kombucha cuts the richness better than anything sweet would.