This is something I had in Japan last December.
You can find pork cutlets at any Japanese restaurants in all over the world if the owners do not want to put it in the menu.
It's one of the most popular Japanese foods for sure.
I think that the popularity of pork cutlets for Japanese comes from the teste and also the name, "Ton katsu".
"Ton" can be written in a chinease character and means pork.
"Katsu" is a part of the word "Katsu retsu", which used to indicate all kinds of deep fried foods, according to a web.
So "Ton Katsu" means simply deep fried pork.
Another meaning of the japanese word "Katsu" is to win. This case, it is a verb. From this meaning, people like to have foods with "Ton Katsu" before an event that you cannot absolutly lose.
Some people have before college entrance exam, or others have before a big horse racing. The foods with Katsu can be "Ton Katsu", "curry with pork cutlets (Katsu curry)", or "rice bowl with pork cutlets (Katsu Don)".
It may be known that Japanese people do not have strong religious beliefs in general, but almost all people like beliefs that you can bring a luck by eating foods with "Katsu".
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