Japanese Fried Chicken Restaurant Tenkatori Opening in San Diego | Eater San Diego

"I'm excited that Tenkatori, a restaurant from Oita prefecture in Kyushu known for exemplary karaage, is coming to San Diego; it landed in SoCal in 2016 and now runs a mini-chain with locations in Gardena, Costa Mesa, and Los Angeles’s Sawtelle Japantown. Their karaage—made from a recipe dating to the original restaurant's founding in 1955—is battered in potato starch and fried to order to maintain peak freshness. The menu features different cuts that can be ordered in varying quantities, including chunks of marinated chicken thigh, teba (wings), nankotsu (soft-bone cartilage), butsu-giri (bone-in breast cuts), sunagimo (gizzard), and gaburi momo or mune (whole chicken thighs or breasts). Optional sauces include sweet and spicy or sweet and sour glazes as well as spicy mayo and yuzu aioli for dipping, and some LA locations offer more extensive items like ramen, bento boxes, and rice bowls. Mmm-yoso scoped out the Miramar Road outpost replacing TJ Dumplings, and a Tenkatori representative told Eater they are targeting a May 1 opening." - Candice Woo