Curry lounge nottingham
The prevailing theory is that Japanese curry (aka karē raisu) originated in India and came to Japan in the late 1800s via British sailors. Other curry is different, it doesn't have that little sweetness." And the pork chop in the katsu is fried perfectly. It isn't spicy so you can eat a lot of it. "I think is something very unique," says Lok Man Fan, a recipe developer who recently moved from Los Angeles to the Bay Area. Plus, there was the chain's spaghetti, its tonkatsu, its famous corn potage and that salad with the grainy ginger-miso dressing. At Curry House, it was the undisputed star. Katsu curry - a heap of white rice topped with a breaded and fried pork cutlet in a puddle of brown sauce - isn't hard to find in Southern California, but at most restaurants it's a bit player. It was the low-key Asian chain you always appreciated," says Phil Yu, founder of the Angry Asian Man blog. "It was not the fanciest place but you always knew you were going to get great comfort food. Like the other Curry House fans who reached out to LAist, she liked that the restaurant was inexpensive, catered to large groups, had a broad menu, served filling portions and wasn't fussy. It's almost like if you made a whole restaurant for casseroles," Yang says. And there was no other place focused on just curry. Almost every East Asian culture that I know of will rely on those curry cubes. "To me, curry is such a comfort food that you grow up with, even when you're not Japanese. Writer, comedian and actor Jenny Yang discovered Curry House after moving to Los Angeles in her twenties. "I'm not somebody who gets too freaked out about things closing but I do get intensely nostalgic about what they represented and what they provided the space for," Miura says. Outside the Little Tokyo location, patrons paid tribute with a small memorial of flowers, candles and handmade signs, including one that read, "We will 'roux' the day." Plastic food had been removed from window displays. "That stopped me in my tracks," he says.Īround midnight, Miura hopped into his car and drove to Gardena. It took him a few minutes to figure out what had happened. He was on Twitter late Monday night and noticed Curry House trending.
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"I find my own emotional attachment to it a little absurd," says Sean Miura, an Asian American arts organizer. We're heartbroken because we've been there so long but we didn't expect this kind of response," Suksamran says. "I am surprised how much it impacted our customers. Curry House's demise was nasty, brutish and swift but none of those facts fully explain the outpouring of sadness the shutdown has generated. They received their final paychecks along with paperwork about filing for unemployment. Whatever the reasons, employees were out of jobs. We were in contact with the seller in the weeks prior to closing these units in an attempt to get them to take the restaurants back, but they refused," says Drake Yoshida, director of CH Acquisitions. "While we did everything possible to increase sales, we are unable to continue operating these restaurants at the severe loss caused by the misrepresentation from the seller, House Foods America.