Beyond matcha sweets: Japan’s favorite katsu sandwich maker releasing matcha pork cutlet sandwich

Beyond matcha sweets: Japan’s favorite katsu sandwich maker releasing matcha pork cutlet sandwich

Masters of their crafts in Tokyo and Kyoto team-up for a very unusual, but very appealing, innovation. It might be hard to believe, but matcha sweets are, for the most part, actually a relatively recent addition to the Japanese culinary scene. Yes, green tea ice cream has been a thing for a long time, and a handful of traditional Japanese confectionaries used matcha, but for the most part matcha was a beverage, not a flavoring. Of course, modern…