Hakata Tonton

• Cuisine(s): Japanese
  Hours: Sun-Thu 6pm-12am, Fri-Sat 6pm-1am
  Price: $$$
• Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
  Features: Takeout
  Serving: Dinner, Late Night
• Alcohol: Beer
  Reservations: Accepted
  Parking: No Parking

Description

One of the city's most unusual restaurants puts pig foot ("tonsoku" in Japanese) in many of its dishes. Find the gluey and allegedly healthful ingredient dumped in soups, fried in patties, hidden in spring rolls, boiled with white sweet potatoes, grilled over flame with salt, mixed into Korean bibimbap and also with Korean sweet cold noodles. Even more weirdly, it's incorporated into Spanish paella, Italian spaghetti carbonara, and in a sort of Japanese guacamole, which is the one dish that doesn't work. If pork peds aren't you're thing, there's also a sushi menu.