I have a thing for Japanese food. Something about the simple perfection that is Japanese food just totally does it for me. I still remember the first time I tried the curry.
Curry ramen is fast food
In Japan curry is fast food. You pay for it at a machine. The machine spits out a token. Sit down and give them the token. Your meal appears. You don’t even need to talk. Japan is an absolutely fascinating place. And it has crazy good food.
Japanese curry cubes makes this easy
I came back from Japan determined to recreate it. First stop on the quest. I asked a Japanese buddy at work for a recipe. He said “We just use the cubes.” Cubes? What are cubes? What? Clearly more research required. How can anything good come from cubes? Next stop – I went to a casual Japanese restaurant and asked how they make the curry. “We use the cubes”. Huh? Unbelievable! But, genius that I am, I started to see the trend. Cubes. Everyone used the “cubes”. Not sure what the “cubes? are but clearly time to figure it out. Next stop – a Japanese grocery store. Turns out they have a wall of curry cubes. Literally. About 20 different boxes marked “curry”. So I tried it. And it was pretty much like I remembered it. So now I use the cubes too. Not always. But often. I also make a Japanese chicken curry from scratch if you want to try that. This blog is about near scratch cooking. Cubes don’t belong. My real tonkotsu ramen takes more than a day. No magic there. But I’m posting it anyway. Try it before you write me off. 30 minute curry ramen. Maybe it’s cheating. But it’s worth it. Seriously tasty stuff.
