Mr Miyagi's Karaage

On Sunday we were heading back through town, and decided to stop off for a burger. My first choice was once again thwarted by not being open, so we rounded the corner to Chow on Tory Street. Chow has been around forever, and used to have a branch on The Terrace which has since closed, but, amazingly, I’ve never been in the Tory Street one. It’s up a flight of stairs and has a connecting door to The Library as well. We hadn’t booked, but they were able to accommodate us as long as we were out by 1 o’clock, as they had bookings which would hit the 50 person maximum at that time. No problem.

The Mr Miyagi's Karaage is, as you’d expect, a burger with an oriental flavour. Nicola decided to forego it and have dumplings instead. The burger is described like this: Toasted rice and panko crumbed katsu chicken cutlet with sesame, lime and radish slaw, housemade pickles, sweet and tangy Apostle Hot Sauce sauce and tonkatsu mayonnaise in a Zaida's turmeric bun, with fries and katsu curry sauce. The Garage Project beer match is, once more, Transit of Venus.

It looked like this:

And boy, was it tasty! A generous double layer of crumbed katsu chicken, nice and crunchy, and tasty sauces and accompaniments. Good chips too, with curry sauce – a combination not usually seen in New Zealand (I know, you UKians, that curry sauce with chips is a thing). The turmeric bun was a bit crumbly but maintained integrity to the end. This was also a drier burger than many of the ones I’ve tried so far, so there was less mess and general stickiness. I awarded this another 8/10.

Tomorrow, back to beef.