Comments on: スマトラカレー共栄堂 (Kyoueidoo)

By: seat

seat — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:01:55 +0000

Haha, they call those curry with thick texture, sweet taste(sometimes butter-taste too) “European curry”(欧風カレー) in Japan. Actually corn soup with curry is also a strange combination if you think about it. ^^;;

By: Freda

Freda — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:41:22 +0000

Yeah that make sense that curry is considered youshoku, since English brought that from Indian to Japan…hence the ‘western’ first impression?

I was reading this early 1930s Japanese mystery fiction and a soldier mentioned eating curry rice from the cafeteria of a Japanese military station at Harbin, I was like “oh, so Japanese~~” ^^:;

By: seat

seat — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:33:02 +0000

I think I like the beef, but there is not that much meat chunks in the curry. btw I didn’t tried the chicken and the beef tongue.

By: snl

snl — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:46:43 +0000

Which curry (beef, pork, prawn, etc.) would you recommend? Thanks.

By: seat

seat — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:58:23 +0000

Tokyo Story>
I hope you find the info here useful. It is so true that there are many bad restaurants in Tokyo too!

Freda>
I guess the apple in this place is supposed to serve cold; I just somehow thought that “grilled apple” must be hot. ^^;;

From Wikipedia:
“Curry was introduced to Japan during the Meiji era (1869 - 1913), at a time when India was under the administration of the British. Because of that, curry in Japan is categorized as a Western dish instead of an Asian dish.”

Strange reason!!

By: Freda

Freda — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:23:05 +0000

Oh…the grilled apple probably was prepared the earlier before (or it’s really served cold?)

Haha the Japanese curry goes way back, I wonder when it’s started?

By: Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:44:37 +0000

Yatta! This is the blog I’ve been looking for! After so many occasions in Tokyo going out for something to eat and not being able to find a really good place, this is a godsend! (Wednesday night is ‘new restaurant night’, a bit late now - but all good for next weeks installment!)