{"id":313,"date":"2014-01-15T00:59:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T15:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/?p=313"},"modified":"2023-10-01T11:09:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T02:09:31","slug":"%e3%82%ab%e3%83%ac%e3%83%bc%e3%83%8f%e3%82%a6%e3%82%b9-coco-the-house-of-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"\u30ab\u30ec\u30fc\u30cf\u30a6\u30b9 Coco, the house of curry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about to reveal one of the most important secrets about Japan. Please be aware that it may totally change the way you see the World.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Everything lies in one word: cornucopia (the horn of plenty). Yes, that&#8217;s it, now you know. Japan IS the cornucopia. Just look at its curved shape, exactly like the famous horn.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s go a bit further: haven&#8217;t you ever wondered why Japan was subject to so many earthquakes? Does &#8220;replenishment&#8221; ring a bell to you? Well, now it does.<\/p>\n<p>Jokes aside, it&#8217;s crazy to see the number of restaurants (any kind) everywhere in Japan. It&#8217;s literally a country of food. And not crappy food (there are fast food chains of course). Really. Good. Food.<br \/>\nOverall it&#8217;s very affordable. You can have a very good meal for less than 1000\u5186. Which is perfect for small budgets (especially if you are travelling and want to taste a lot of different things).<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s begin with a chain called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ichibanya.co.jp\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u30ab\u30ec\u30fc\u30cf\u30a6\u30b9Coco<\/a> (Kare House Coco): the house of curry. If you haven&#8217;t guessed already, it&#8217;s all about curry. But not the Indian yellow curry that you may be thinking of. It&#8217;s actually some kind of brownish curry, I don&#8217;t exactly know what is different in the making process, just that it&#8217;s less spicy (actually it depends as sometimes you can choose how spicy you want it to be, and choosing the wrong option can lead to an inedible &#8211; or at least painful to eat &#8211; dish) and probably thicker and sweeter. The main thing that you must remember is that it&#8217;s awfully good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse01.jpg\" alt=\"karehouse01\" width=\"568\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse01.jpg 568w, https:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse01-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse01-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are different ways of serving \u30ab\u30ec\u30fc. It can be just the &#8220;sauce&#8221; itself, or it can be mixed with some meat and vegetables. Most of the time, you eat \u30ab\u30ec\u30fc with rice.<br \/>\nSimply writing about it makes me salivating o__o<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Something that is, I believe, very specific to Japan is that you can read books, <em>manga<\/em> and magazines directly inside the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-317\" src=\"http:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse02.jpg\" alt=\"karehouse02\" width=\"568\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse02.jpg 568w, https:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse02-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse02-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is a large choice of dishes, which is why it took us ages to choose. I wish I could try them all. Oh wait, I actually can, I live in Japan! :D<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse04.jpg\" alt=\"karehouse04\" width=\"568\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse04.jpg 568w, https:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse04-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse04-489x300.jpg 489w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Usually in every restaurant in Japan you&#8217;ll find some stuff on your table such as napkins, spicies, soy sauce, toothpicks, water, tea (in powder), chopsticks, etc. It may vary depending on the resto.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-318\" src=\"http:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse03.jpg\" alt=\"karehouse03\" width=\"568\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse03.jpg 568w, https:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse03-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse03-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So this is what I ordered: &#8220;Cheese hamburger \u30ab\u30ec\u30fc&#8221; (730\u5186). The burger is filled with some melting cheese. Needless to say how good it is&#8230; Approved by Biwa-chan!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-321 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse06.jpg\" alt=\"karehouse06\" width=\"568\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse06.jpg 568w, https:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse06-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.munchou.com\/biwa-chan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/karehouse06-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Perhaps have you noticed that that \u30ab\u30ec\u30fc is the kind of not having vegetables nor pieces of meat in it. It&#8217;s mainly a \u30ab\u30ec\u30fc sauce meant to be mixed with the rest of your plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about to reveal one of the most important secrets about Japan. 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