A second Bay Area outpost of the panko-katsu brand has opened at 5890 Mowry School Road in Newark, with a $40 eating challenge and a spicy house sauce drawing early visitors.

King Katsu Land has opened at 5890 Mowry School Road in Newark, adding a second Bay Area location to the brand's existing Daly City outpost. Hiring ads advertising the site as "newly opening" appeared on Craigslist and a Korean-language job board as early as May 2026; a visitor on r/bayarea reported going in July.

The r/bayarea poster described the breading as "oh so flakey" — large panko crumbs, a thick crispy crust — and found the regular sauce already quite spicy; a curry upgrade runs $2 more. The menu also includes a $40 double-portion eating challenge, free to anyone who finishes it solo within 30 minutes. The poster watched a neighboring table attempt it and leave with a to-go box after the clock ran out.

Hiring records for the Newark location list rjbhousecorp@gmail.com as the contact email. The brand's Daly City location, at 2085 Gellert Blvd, Ste 6, operates under Wolfe Heights Estates LLC per California ABC license records; no permit, business registration, or ABC license for the Mowry School Road address has surfaced in publicly accessible records, and whether the same entity operates the Newark room is unconfirmed. Official opening date and seat count were not available at publication.