Donkkaseu (돈까스) is essentially a breaded pork cutlet served with rice. It's a dish that has been popularized in Japan and Korea has subsequently absorbed it into their own cross-cultural cuisine. In Japan, the etymology of the word is "ton" (pig) + "katsu," a shortened pronunciation of "cutlet" ("katsuretsu"), thus resulting in a merged 'Tonkatsu' when spoken in Japanese. The transliteration into Korean is almost the same. It can also be heard in Japan as being 'katsudon'.
It is eaten with a brown sauce called Donkkaseu Sauce, commonly called simply "sauce", the ingredients of which vary from place to place but which usually has a taste similar to Worcestershire sauce. One can also expect to find different kinds of donkkaseu, such as chicken donkkaseu and fish donkkaseu.
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