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Photograph belongs to Tonkatsu Daiki. Supplied by Brand Cellar on behalf of the venue and used with permission.

Just OpenedJapanese TonkatsuOpened March 2026

Tonkatsu Daiki

2026 opening record. Confirm current status

A Japanese Tonkatsu opening in Orchard. Reported menu items include Rosu (Pork Loin) Tonkatsu Set, Hire (Pork Tenderloin) Tonkatsu Set.

Worth it for / Skip if

Not on record yet. Clauses here are generated only from named fields — a published price, a booking route, the verified hours — and this venue carries too few of them to draw the line honestly. Nothing is inferred to fill the gap.

What it costs

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How to get a seat

No online booking channel is on record for this venue. Verified hours are not on record either, so call ahead before travelling.

What to expect

  • Getting there — Orchard MRT · 391 Orchard Road, Ngee Ann City, #05-33, Singapore 238873.
  • Dietary requests, dress code and group size — not on record. Ask when you call ahead.
Needs verification2026 opening

The longer version

Source-backed opening information; this is not a first-hand dining review.

Signature dishes

Dishes named in official sources for this venue:

Menus change, and this list is not dated. Confirm current dishes and prices directly with the venue.

The official menu

No official menu is on record for this venue. Forkin transcribes a menu only from the venue's own published source, never from a review or an aggregator listing.

Opening hours

Day-by-day hours are not verified for this venue. The venue's own summary reads: Daily: 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM, 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM. Hours are published here only once a dated source has been read for the whole week, so a partial week is never shown as a full one.

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Photographs

Inside Tonkatsu Daiki

A booth at Tonkatsu Daiki built to look like the inside of a Japanese train carriage, with a turquoise bench seat, hanging grab handles, a route map above the window and a simulated street view through the window
A seating booth built as a Japanese train carriage, complete with route map and grab handles.
A breaded, deep-fried cutlet sliced into thick pieces on a pale cutting board, with a Japanese chef knife resting across it
A fried cutlet cut into thick slices.
A gloved hand lifting a cutlet thickly coated in coarse panko crumbs from a tub of breadcrumbs
Coating a cutlet in coarse panko before frying.
A gloved hand lowering a panko-coated cutlet into a shallow bath of bubbling frying oil
The coated cutlet going into the oil.

Photograph belongs to Tonkatsu Daiki. Supplied by Brand Cellar on behalf of the venue and used with permission. Provenance, permitted use and retrieval date for each file are recorded in Forkin's media ledger. No image on this page is a render or an artist impression.

Official Instagram

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Common questions

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At a glance

Orchard391 Orchard Road, Ngee Ann City, #05-33, Singapore 238873

Orchard MRT

Daily: 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM, 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Opened March 2026

How this was assessed

This listing was assessed by the Forkin editorial desk from 2 linked substantive sources, at confidence medium, last assessed 25 August 2026. The full scoring breakdown and every source is below.

Official page only — no independent coverage on record. One source in total.

Why Tonkatsu Daiki scores 7.7

WORTH A LOOK · band 7.0–8.4 (base 7.5)

The Forkin Evidence Score is a transparent calibration of the published evidence behind this venue's editorial stamp — not a personal dining rating, and never derived from Google data. It starts from the stamp's base value, applies the five evidence adjustments below, then clamps the result inside the stamp's band.

  • Source consensusmoderate+0.05two independent attributable sources or some disagreement
  • Critic calibreestablished+0.05established editorial food/lifestyle publication backing
  • Praise specificitymedium+0.00at least one concrete dish/experience signal
  • Consistencymoderate0.00generally favourable without a strong unanimity signal
  • Evidence recencycurrent+0.05newest assessment, publication, or verification is 2025 onward

Scores are rounded to one decimal place and are only published for venues carrying an evidence-backed editorial stamp. Full rubric: Forkin Evidence Score methodology.

Editorial stamp

WORTH A LOOK

Confidence: medium

Forkin desk assessment of attributable public coverage — not a personal dining review.

Batch 51 re-verification confirms 2 dated, attributable, exact-outlet countable assessments (Seth Lui and The Ranting Panda). Their registered highest publisher calibre is established, not 'independent', so B46-R1 corrects criticCalibre to established and recomputes the score to 7.7. The existing WORTH A LOOK verdict remains supported by the record’s assessed evidence balance.

What public coverage says

Tonkatsu Daiki is the Singapore debut of an Osaka tonkatsu specialist, on the fifth floor of Ngee Ann City, built around thick-cut pork cutlets breaded and fried to order and served as rosu and hire sets. Both countable accounts are positive and specific about the cutlet itself and about the Osaka parentage behind the kitchen, while framing it as a good version of a familiar dish rather than a revelation. The most prominent local coverage of the outlet is a disclosed media tasting and carries no weight here.

Last assessed 25 August 2026 · 2 linked substantive sources

Caveat: Eatbook coverage was not confirmed as a clean, non-hosted firsthand review and was excluded from the countable total as a precaution. Exact publication date for The Ranting Panda's byline was not directly located in scraped content; date is inferred from the article URL slug (2026-04-15). Re-verified 25 August 2026: both countable citations are live, and both publication dates are stated on the page (SethLui "Updated: 7 Apr 2026"; The Ranting Panda 15 April 2026) — superseding the earlier caveat that The Ranting Panda's date was inferred from the URL slug. Independence finding 25 August 2026: the Eatbook citation, previously excluded as a precaution, is now positively confirmed as a disclosed media tasting ("This was a media tasting at Tonkatsu Daiki") and remains context only. Unresolved: the Osaka parent brand's MICHELIN recognition is recorded as factual context about the brand and never raises this outlet's criticCalibre (B20-R3). No affiliate or ownership-network review of either countable publisher was completed.

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Full source log

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