Matsunoya Lists "Double Loin Pork Fried Steak Set Meal" That Was Missing From Its Announcement

Oct 2, 2026 14:51

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This is a reference translation. The Japanese version is the authoritative original.

On October 2, 2026, the “Double Loin Pork Fried Steak Set Meal w/ Back Fat Ginger Sauce” appeared on the menu page of Matsunoya’s official website at 1,090 yen. Three Pork Fried Steak set meals carrying the same “Back Fat Ginger Sauce” name were listed together at 3:00 p.m. on September 30, and this item is the fourth to follow them. The official notice dated September 25, however, named only three products, and this item’s name was not among them.

What Was Listed

Field	Value
Price	1,090 yen
Energy	1301kcal
Protein	45.6g
Fat	77.0g
Carbohydrates	111.2g
Salt Equivalent	6.9g

The listing falls under the Set Meal category. It was on the official website as of 2:40 p.m., with no size breakdown or description text.

Source: Matsunoya Official Site

It Was Not Among the Three Products the Chain Named

The official notice dated September 25 named three products for release at 3:00 p.m. on September 30. The names below are as written in the notice; some wording differs from the names used on the menu page.

Item named in the notice	Price
“Rib” Loin Pork Fried Steak Set Meal w/ Back Fat Ginger Sauce	1,090 yen
Loin Pork Fried Steak & Pork Loin Cutlet Set Meal w/ Back Fat Ginger Sauce	1,090 yen
Loin Pork Fried Steak & Karaage (3 pcs) Set Meal w/ Back Fat Ginger Sauce	1,090 yen

All three went up on the menu page together during the 3:00 p.m. hour on September 30. This “Double Loin” item was listed on its own two days later. Five official notices were published between September 28 and October 2, but all of them concern campaigns, and none announces the release of this item.

The Sauce Adds 40 Yen

At 1,090 yen, the item has the sixth-highest price among the 23 items in the Set Meal category, which range from 690 yen to 1,390 yen. The three items that preceded it in the series are also 1,090 yen, putting all four at the same price.

Cut	With Back Fat Ginger Sauce	Plain Cutlet Set Meal	Change
Double Loin	1,090 yen	DoublePorkLoinCutlet 1,050 yen	40 yen
“Rib” Loin	1,090 yen	Large Rib Roast Pork Loin Cutlet 1,050 yen	40 yen

Set against the plain cutlet set meals that name the same cut, the Back Fat Ginger Sauce version costs 40 yen more in both cases. The gap is the same 40 yen for the Double Loin and the Rib Loin, so the price difference holds across the series. Whether the meat portion and the preparation are otherwise identical is not stated in the official listing.

A Series Brought Back as a “Return”

The Pork Fried Steak Set Meal w/ Back Fat Ginger Sauce first appeared with a release on October 22, 2025, when it was a single loin item. The September 25 notice describes this year’s version as a “return” and says the chain is “selling it again this year.” From the previous release date to this year’s release date of September 30, 343 days passed, a gap of about 11 months.

The Pork Fried Steak itself has a longer line of descent. An onion butter sauce version came in February 2024, a choose-from-two-sauces format in October of the same year, and a garlic soy sauce version that December; the Back Fat Ginger Sauce is a comparatively recent addition from 2025. This year it has widened from a single item to a lineup of four, but how the fourth item came about does not appear in any official announcement.