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Tom Ton

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03-88 The Central, 6 Eu Tong Sen Street, Tel: 6327-7887 Open: 11.30am to 11pm

Don’t be distracted by sushi or salads or grilled fish or any number of things that are on the menu at Tom Ton, a Japanese eatery in The Central.

Instead, home in on the extensive list of dishes featuring kurobuta pork, the luscious, well-marbled meat from descendants of the black Berkshire pigs presented to Japan by English royalty, so the story goes.

One of the best ways to enjoy the pork is also one of the simplest – in the tokusen or special shio katsu don set ($25.50). This breaded and deep-fried slice of pork loin is served over rice and comes with salt, or shio, on the side.

It costs $5 more than the regular katsu, but is well worth the extra. For one thing, there is a strip of fat on top of the pork loin. Tom Ton almost always does it perfectly – the fat isn’t slopping all over the place, or gristly.

It just sits there, looking pristine and translucent, and tastes terrific.

Expert frying and temperature control ensure that the loin isn’t greasy on the outside. And although pork loin can dry out, it never does so at the restaurant.

Sprinkle some of that pink Himalayan salt on the slices of pork – it enhances the mild flavour of the pork.

And while slurping up the delicious pork miso soup that comes with the meal, marvel at how an ancient breed of English pig made it to Japan, only to make waves all around the world, including in Singapore, where it is served with a little pile of pink Himalayan salt imported from Japan.

Globalisation can be so delicious, don’t you think?