A Day In The Life Of Chiyo

This place makes Japanese curry from scratch, by stewing potatoes, carrots and onions and spices together for hours to make the thick curry gravy, instead of just dissolving the instant curry powder mixes like so many other places do. There are the stewed curries, fried item curries and also dons. You can choose the spiciness of your curry too.

I have tried the stewed beef tenderloin curry and mushroom curry. The beef curry was normal, some of the beef chunks were rather tough. But the overall stew was great, lots of potatoes and carrots in it. The portion of curry was ok, but I couldn't finish the huge portion of rice. You can either choose soup or salad, and both times I chose salad, which was quite nice too. The mushroom curry was more special :) 3 different kinds of mushroom, which blended surprisingly well with the curry. They did give quite alot of mushrooms, which justified the price.

I have also tried the appetiser 'Age Chikuwa with Cheese', which is fried squid cake roll wrapped around cheese. Pretty good too :)

The price range is 12.90 to 23.90 (!!! for the seafood curry). I feel it is not cheap, but the food quality is good. The place is usually quite fully booked for dinner, though I have not tried it for lunch. It seems like the lunch sets are more value-for-money, but I don't know how big the portions are.

Next door to this curry restaurant is a jazz cafe. Not live jazz, but they share desserts and drinks orders with the curry restaurant.

*** Photo is from their website