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Eggplant Sando at Konbini Club

Crispy eggplant cutlet, tonkatsu sauce, organic shredded cabbage on japanese milk bread. Sandwich Score 58, solid. At Konbini Club, Cupertino.

A sandwich at Konbini Club, a restaurant in Cupertino, California.

Shokupan (Japanese…CabbageTonkatsu SauceEggplantShokupan (Japanese…
58
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +26.

Uncharted, three of six roles on the board.

Holding the summit: complete structure

Balance
68
Harmony
82
Contrast
80
Structure
53
Focus
75
Composition
56
Quality
100
Envelope
86

More sweet than 90% of the catalog.

Each bar is one pillar of the score, 0 to 100. The tick marks what a sandwich at the summit needs; an amber bar is the one holding this sandwich back.

japanese milk bread, served cold: crispy eggplant cutlet; tonkatsu sauce; organic shredded cabbage.

Balance

salt0.7 · 39thacid0.7 · 57thfat0.4 · 5thsweet1.8 · 90thumami1.5 · 50thheat0.0bitter0.2 · 68th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.739th
acid0.757th
fat0.45th
sweet1.890th
umami1.550th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.268th

68 Balance, out of 100

The seven flavor axes of the whole sandwich, each summed across its layers. The shaded ring is the catalog's middle 80%; the small number under each axis is where this sandwich falls in the catalog. A shape that sits inside the ring is in the range most sandwiches live in; a spike past it is where this one stands apart.

What each layer brings

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
japanese milk breadscored as Shokupan (Japanese milk bread)breadsweet 2 soft springythe frame
crispy eggplant cutletscored as Eggplantbulkumami 2 soft+2
tonkatsu saucesaucesweet 4 umami 3 salt 2 acid 2 saucy smooth+11
organic shredded cabbagescored as Cabbagebulkcrunchy fresh raw+17

Points: what the Sandwich Score would lose if that one layer were left out, everything else the same. A negative number means the sandwich scores higher without it. Flavor runs 0 to 5 on each axis.

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