Kurobuta pork tonkatsu! and fried fish private parts

It has been a Japanese food weekend...which naturally I love. On Friday we went to our local sushi restaurant (by local I mean 1 block away). In addition to some great sushi we had a tempura dish which Kuniko ordered. When it arrived it didn't look like other tempura I had tasted before. I asked what it was and was informed I could find out after I ate it (this is definately a good policy). It tasted good but the texture bordered on slimy- I would rate it as a B. I later found out it is "a reproductive organ, but I can't remember whether male or female." Who the hell would think to fry up fish reproductive organs? The Japanese of course.



Last night we went to Bairin (meaning plum forest in Japanese):

http://www.pj-world.com/bairin/

They also have another restaurant in Ginza in Tokyo. It specializes in Tonkatsu which is breaded/fried pork. This restaurant also has the option of getting Kurobata pork which is supposedly the Kobe beef of pork (if that makes sense). Basically what it means is it is very fatty and flavorful and when deep fried it is freaking amazing. In this restaurant they give a bowl of sesame seeds that you grind up and then put a sweet brown sauce (Tonkatsu sauce) and then dip the pork in that. Naturally it is quite expensive, however, is absolutely worth it. Also they had Sapporo reserve which I haven't seen before- it is excellent.