A sandwich at Konbini Club, a restaurant in Cupertino, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +10.
Reads as a fully realized katsu sando, five of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: complete structure
−5 a wet layer on soft bread
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 chicken cutlet; tonkatsu sauce; organic shredded cabbage.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.3 | 64th |
| acid | 0.6 | 53rd |
| fat | 1.5 | 26th |
| sweet | 1.5 | 90th |
| umami | 2.2 | 83rd |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
85 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
| Layer | Role | Flavor and texture | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| japanese milk breadscored as Shokupan (Japanese milk bread) | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| crispy chicken cutletscored as Katsu (cutlet) | protein | fat 4 umami 4 salt 2 crispy crunchy fried | +18 |
| tonkatsu sauce | sauce | sweet 4 umami 3 salt 2 acid 2 saucy smooth | +26 |
| organic shredded cabbagescored as Cabbage | bulk | crunchy fresh raw | +20 |
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.
How to raise it
- Clear the board: a wet layer on soft bread (-5).
- Between you and 90: complete structure (0.07 short).
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