Japanese dining chain curries favor with Indian market

Hmmm, there are apparently four Coco Ichibanya restaurants in the US and all of them are in Southern California.

I enjoy Indian foods as a rule but I love Japanese curry more than any other. We eat it here in the US. My Chinese wife also prefers it. The others can be too hot to be enjoyable. The very worst curry I'v ever had was in Singapore. It was inedible and not because it was hot. I just tasted bad. A little trivia; curry is the traditional Friday night dinner in the JMSDF, a holdover tradition from the IJN. I hope Coco Ichibanya does well in India.

Japanese curry was unique and different from India or any Asia countries. I like all kinds of curries except badly cook curry. Please, come to Melbourne.

It is one of my joys to compare different cuisines

But the bigger joy is to eat them. :-)

I'm sure we all have tales to tell of our curry experiences. My favorite was when in Malaysia on the compulsory return-through-Asia trip after my first stint in Japan. At an Indian restaurant there, the manager asked about our trip and we told him our next destination was India. He told us to enjoy the food now as the best Indian food was in Malaysia and the UK. His point was that India was so poor, most people couldn't afford to eat good food. We discovered he was generally correct. But our flight to India got screwed up and we were put up in a fancy hotel in Mumbai for our first night (we should have been in Delhi). As most on the flight were scruffy gits like me, they herded us into a separate room and served a help yourself buffet. It was fantastic.

Anyway, good luck to this chain. There's a place for all kinds of tastes. (I live in the land of Haggis Pakora.)

Thai curries, as well as "curries" that have found their way to the West are all different and shouldn't be compared.

You are joking, right?

It is one of my joys to compare different cuisines and even curries as I consume plenty!

Indian curries, Japanese curries, Thai curries, as well as "curries" that have found their way to the West are all different and shouldn't be compared. They are all good and preference is nothing more than personal taste. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Japanese curry is a big hit in India and elsewhere. In Japan Muji makes an reasonable effort to introduce non-Japanese curries but frankly, it's like 60-75% there. Good effort though.

I do like Japanese curry, it is delicious and filling.

I once had Kung Pao Chicken at an American restaurant chain in Shanghai and my Chinese friends like it a lot.

So there's hope for selling Japanese curry in India.

Seems the culinary experts here disapprove.

Perhaps the good people in India can decide for themselves?

Despite the valiant attempts of the Japanese to make a curry that resembled Indian cuisine for British guests, the result is nothing like Indian curry.

An Indian wouldn't recognize it as "curry" and this is probably in its favour - it would not be seen as a very inferior version of Indian curry, but an entirely different food type.

Actually, curry originated in Pakistan, not India.

Pakistan is only about 70 years old. The Japanese have been eating curry for longer than Pakistan has existed.

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Actually, curry originated in Pakistan, not India.

Really?!

According to Sen's book, the word curry most likely comes from a misunderstanding of the southern Indian word "kari," which "denoted a spiced dish of sauteed vegetables and meat."

> "In the 17th century, the Portuguese [who colonized Goa in western India] took the word to mean a 'spiced stew' over rice and 'kari' eventually became 'caril' or 'caree' in Portuguese, then 'curry' in English," Sen tells CNN Travel.

Curry, which is thought to have originated as early as 2500 BCE in what is modern-day Pakistan, has since evolved into a truly global food, having traveled the world through colonization and immigration, indentured labor, trade and entrepreneurship.

There was no Pakistan in 2500BCE! There was India, though.

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/curry-origins-history/index.html

Coals to Newcastle. Coco Ichibanya is ghastly stuff.

I've had Coco Ichibanya a few times, now that they've finally made the vegan options available in most branches. However, give me a South Indian curry with basmati rice anytime. Not so keen on curry loaded with sugar.

I rarely eat Japanese curry as it is more sauce than substance...

True. Another reason why I prefer Indian. But Thai with coconut milk and vegetables and Thai rice is delicious too.

"Actually, curry originated in Pakistan, not India."

Sources please? Curries originated in Southern part of India where the cuisine is different from north Indian or Mughlai cuisine. There is a curry tree native to the subcontinent from where the dish got it's name.

Actually, curry originated in Pakistan, not India.

I assume the recipe is not the same as Japan because of the large populations in India who do not eat one of pork and beef.

I went for the first time in years a couple of months back because my wife wanted to go. I had the veggie one with added grilled veggies, but it wasn't very good. The grilled veggie topping was nothing like the photo.

A dish for emperors to feed upon - William Thackeray

Thai curry is the best.

Population density is so high over there. You'll have min numbers of customers all the time.

"The taste is something that is very addictive," said Aakash Nakra. "You want to eat more and more and more."

MSG?

I rarely eat Japanese curry as it is more sauce than substance...

Indian curry Japanese curry

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