Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Crazy about Soup-Curry!

Have you ever eaten Soup-Curry?

In Japan, we have generally ate "curry and rice" for a long time.
The curry is roux-curry, thicken by wheat flour.
The rice is covered with curry, and we eat rice and curry together.

However, Soup-Curry is not like "curry and rice".
The features of Soup-Curry are as followings;


1. The soup

Its soup is literally 'soup', very smooth curry. We eat soup and rice separately; sipping soup and eating rice by turns. We can also dip rice into soup and eat.

2. Its spicy taste
At Soup-Curry restaurant, we can usually choose the quantity of spice, but its tastes are usually hot and spicy.

3. Many vegetables
There are many vegetables in the soup; carrot, pimiento, potate, eggplant, okra, a boiled egg, broccoli and so on. The each vegetables in the soup is cut larger than those of "rice and curry", it's my favorite point.

The Soup-Curry has begun to be popular for around 10 years in my hometown, Sapporo. Today, it became one of the features of Sapporo (see this site)
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When I ate Soup-Curry for the first time, I was surprised at its spicy taste. I said at first, "I don't think I can eat all the soup". But as I ate, I became addicted to the spicy taste. Now I'm crazy about Soup-Curry! Looking for delicious Soup-Curry restaurants became my hobby. If you know a good Soup-Curry restaurant, tell me please!!

2 comments:

  1. Hi Yasue,

    Thank you for yet another beautiful blog posting! I didn't realize that soup curry was such a big hit in Sapporo these days. But I, too, prefer it to ramen. Soup curry seems much healthier, also.

    The only curry shop I know of that offers soup curry is underground between Sapporo subway and Sapporo JR train station. It is a fast-food style restaurant but the soup curry still tastes good. Sorry, I don't remember the name, but there is a Croissant sandwich shop next door.

    BTW, do you have a headset with microphone? If so, let's skype! I'd like to hear your soup curry shop recommendation. I am usually online at about 8:00 p.m. How about you? (Bob)

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  2. Bob, minmin, thank you for your comments. I'm very glad you two like soup curry, too.

    I like "KOKORO" very much. The picture in my blog was taken there.
    I also like "VOYAGE", "SABAAY", and "LAVI LAVI", but "SABAAY" is now rebuilding, so we cannot go there for the time being.

    I have seen the curry shop next to Croissant sandwich, but I've never gone to. I want to try the new soup curry there.

    I'm sorry I don't have a headset with microphone now. When I buy it, I wanna talk with you about soup curry with skype!

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