It’s a sushi kind of day but sushi alone doesn’t sustain me (because it’s too expensive to buy enough to be full…) so today, along with my ebi rolls, I’ve opted for a Pork Katsu Bento Lunch Special.

LOCATION: 47 MAIN ST., CORTLAND, NY, 13045

A bento lunch comes with gyoza, a California roll, white rice, and a side of soup or salad (miso soup not pictured).

Bento meals are what I tend to get when we use to eat there but I haven’t gotten it as a takeout meal before and I haven’t gotten the Pork Katsu before. I love the little take out bento box this meal came in with the cute little compartments.

Everything is pretty standard, it’s hard to mess up a California roll, and white rice. I would also guess they don’t make their gyoza in house that it’s a pretty standard gyoza that’s cooked well but nothing impressive.

The pork katsu was really the leap this time and it did come with a sweet sauce that I dipped the meat into to eat with rice. Overall, the flavor was fine but the pork was dry and I was a little sad. Not a bento protein I would choose again but not inedible.

The reason I go to Wild Ginger so often is because of the wide menu and the fact that it’s the only place that has authentic Asian food that doesn’t make me sad. I can only eat so much American Chinese takeout. Cross Katsu off the list but I’ll be back again for something else.