Jeonpo, Busan tonkatsu for heat-wave protein: top loin katsu at Hets

This weather is just so steamy, it's been a heat wave warning for days now 😭 And that's exactly when you need protein! Meat! Don't we have to eat more of it?!!!! 🩶 So I went looking for a tonkatsu (breaded pork cutlet) place, and today I visited a Jeonpo restaurant that's as hot 🔥 as the weather in Busan right now. This is Hets Jeonpo Branch (헷츠 전포점), a tonkatsu hotspot in Jeonpo!

Hets Jeonpo Branch location and opening hours

• Address: 225 Jeonpo-daero, Busanjin-gu, Busan, South Korea (2nd floor, Unit 201)
• Hours: daily 11:10 AM – 8:30 PM
• Break time: 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

3–4 minutes from Jeonpo Station: inside and outside Hets Jeonpo Branch

The outside of Hets Jeonpo Branch is metallic, black and white, and so clean-looking that it really catches the eye!! Best of all, it's a 3–4 minute walk from Jeonpo Station, so it's easy to reach by public transport. They say that if you come by car, they'll also support ₩1,000 of the public parking lot fee -

At the entrance there's a spot to hang your coat and bag, plus separate waiting seats. The seating is a bar table, and since it's stainless steel, the interior looks really neat and clean 🩶🖤

Hets Jeonpo Branch menu, prices and the sauces at every seat

💛Hets Jeonpo tonkatsu menu💛

• Jeju black pork top loin katsu ₩17,000 (limited quantity)
• Jeju black pork loin katsu ₩14,000
• Jeju black pork combo katsu ₩18,000 (loin and fillet mixed)
• YBD top loin katsu ₩16,000 (limited quantity)
• YBD fillet katsu ₩15,000
• YBD loin katsu ₩13,000
• YBD combo katsu ₩17,000

There was a good variety of sauces already set out at each seat: pink salt, truffle oil, wasabi and pepper, to use however you like. The truffle oil smells incredible, it's a little temptress^_^

Ordering the Jeju black pork top loin katsu and YBD combo katsu

Today we ordered the Jeju black pork top loin katsu and the YBD combo katsu! The top loin katsu is limited in quantity, and maybe because we went a little early, we were lucky enough to get it. Total lucky vicky ~~ Also, Hets Jeonpo Branch has an open kitchen, so you can really trust the hygiene haha. They fry everything in properly clean oil. Ah, writing this makes me want to eat it again 😭 I'm going back soon 😭😭

After ordering, as you wait smelling the delicious aroma, they bring out the sauces and kkakdugi (cubed radish kimchi), then rice and soup in turn! Side dishes, soup and rice are all free to refill, they said. The best!

Jeju black pork top loin katsu with gabrisal (fatty loin cap)

The limited-quantity menu at Hets Jeonpo Branch!!!!!!! The Jeju black pork top loin katsu. It comes with gabrisal (the muscle at the front of the pork loin) attached, so it's a katsu with a deep meaty aroma. And honestly... it has that meaty aroma and still melts in your mouth 😭ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

YBD combo katsu: tender fillet and loin on one plate

And this is the YBD combo katsu!!!!! Ah, but I really want to recommend the combo katsu. It comes with fillet and loin mixed, and the hire (fillet katsu) honestly almost made me cry ㅠㅠㅠㅠ So juicy and so tender..... ah........ it was so delicious. If I were Michelin, I'd give the star to this fillet katsu 🥇🏅🥇🏅

And then there was the thoughtfully prepared silbi kimchi too...🔥❤️ A perfect three-way hit, that was Hets, the Jeonpo tonkatsu spot!!!!!!

If you want proper tonkatsu in Jeonpo-dong, no questions asked, go to Hets Jeonpo Branch!!! I got a coupon card, and I'll probably fill all the stamps within two months. I'm going to be a regular... Highly recommended!!!!!!!!!!!!!!