A sandwich at Konbini Club, a restaurant in Cupertino, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +8.
A katsu sando with layers outside the form; five of six roles.
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, toasted: crispy chicken cutlet; tonkatsu sauce; organic shredded cabbage; egg salad (whole eggs, kewpie mayo, salt, whole milk, sugar) (named producer).
Worth a look: named producer: Egg Salad.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 71st |
| acid | 0.7 | 58th |
| fat | 1.9 | 39th |
| sweet | 1.1 | 90th |
| umami | 2.2 | 82nd |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
88 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 | −1 |
| tonkatsu sauce | sauce | sweet 4 umami 3 salt 2 acid 2 saucy smooth | +24 |
| organic shredded cabbagescored as Cabbage | bulk | crunchy fresh raw | +21 |
| egg salad (whole eggs, kewpie mayo, salt, whole milk, sugar) (named producer)scored as Egg Salad | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 creamy soft | +3 |
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.
Pairings
- Shokupan (Japanese milk bread) + Egg Salad: tamago sando: soft egg on pillowy milk bread
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