> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://onesandwich.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Lotteria — Donkaseu Burger (돈까스 버거) - URL: https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-donkaseu-burger/ - Published: 2026-05-18T02:15:14.000Z - Updated: 2026-05-26T13:04:50.000Z - Description: Breaded pork cutlet (donkaseu/tonkatsu) in burger format. Korean donkaseu is sweeter and thicker than Japanese tonkatsu. A beloved Korean... - Author: Andrew Lekashman - Tags: South Korea, Burgers, Lotteria, #auto-imported **🇰🇷 South Korea** · Family: [Lotteria](https://onesandwich.com/tag/lotteria/) · Region: South Korea (Chain) · Heat: Fried · Bread: burger-bun · Proteins: pork --- Ingredients burger bun · pork · cabbage · tonkatsu sauce The *Donkaseu Burger* (돈까스 버거) is Lotteria's pork cutlet built into a bun, a breaded *donkaseu* fillet in burger format rather than plated with rice and sauce. The angle is texture preservation. *Donkaseu*, the Korean reading of the breaded pork cutlet, is defined by a crisp fried crumb shell, sweeter and thicker than the Japanese tonkatsu it descends from, and the entire challenge of putting it in a bun is keeping that shell crisp while everything around it works to steam it soft. A *donkaseu* burger that has gone soggy has lost the only thing that distinguished it from any other pork sandwich. The build is a fried cutlet doing the job a patty usually does, and the moisture management is the whole game. The pork is pounded, breaded, and deep-fried so the crumb sets into a structured shell with the meat staying juicy inside. It goes onto a soft bun, and the order of operations matters: a sauce or condiment applied directly to the hot crust will soak into it and collapse the crunch within minutes, so good builds keep the wet elements buffered, mayonnaise or a sauce layer against the bun rather than the breading, with shredded cabbage or lettuce adding a cool crunch that echoes the cutlet's own. The Korean *donkaseu* sauce, sweeter and often thicker than a Japanese tonkatsu sauce, supplies the tangy-sweet note the fried pork is built to carry. Good execution is audible: the crumb still cracks under the bite, the pork juicy behind it, the sauce reading sweet-tangy without having drowned the shell. Sloppy execution is a cutlet sauced directly and left to sit so the breading turns to wet paste, a fillet fried unevenly so part is dry and part is greasy, or so much sweet sauce that the pork and the crunch both vanish. It varies by sauce and by what is stacked with the cutlet. Cheese-added readings trade some crispness for richness; versions with a slaw or extra pickle push the acid up against the sweet sauce. Within Lotteria it sits alongside the *bulgogi* and rice-bun builds as the fried-cutlet entry on a menu otherwise built on sweet soy beef. The plated *donkaseu* eaten with rice, shredded cabbage, and sauce poured over the top is a different thing entirely, structured around the plate rather than the bun, and is worth its own article rather than being read through this one. --- ## More from this family Other [Lotteria](https://onesandwich.com/tag/lotteria/) sandwiches in South Korea: - [Lotteria — Bibim Rice Burger (비빔 라이스 버거)](https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-bibim-rice-burger/) - [Lotteria — Breakfast Bacon Egg Sandwich](https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-breakfast-bacon-egg-sandwich/) - [Lotteria — Bulgogi Burger (불고기 버거)](https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-bulgogi-burger/) - [Lotteria — Bulgogi Deluxe](https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-bulgogi-deluxe/) - [Lotteria — Chicken Gangjung Rice Burger](https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-chicken-gangjung-rice-burger/) - [Lotteria — Double Bulgogi](https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-double-bulgogi/) - [Lotteria — Double Shrimp Burger](https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-double-shrimp-burger/) - [Lotteria — Fire Wings](https://onesandwich.com/lotteria-fire-wings/) [See all Lotteria sandwiches →](https://onesandwich.com/tag/lotteria/)