We're at Coco Curry for breakfast
An excellent breakfast
It's a late breakfast
It is
It's about half eleven
We're having a relaxed morning this morning
I looked up which ones in Osaka
Have vegetarian curry
Because not all of them do
I found this one
I found 3 of them actually
This one didn't have a sign in the window outside
Like the one I'd been to before
So I went in
And said, "Bejitarian kare ga arimasu ka?"
Is there vegetarian curry?
And she brought out this menu
A special menu!
It's got all the vegetarian curries on it
So I think I've ordered more successfully
Than last time I came to Coco Curry
When I just got sauce and rice
With nothing in it!
Vegetarian curry with vegetables
Oh wow, there's a whole choice!
This is amazing
It says at the top "Does not contain animal-derived ingredients"
So there's curry with vegetables and eggplant
Tomato and asparagus
Eggplant, spinach and ripe tomato
Spinach
Mushroom, okra and yam
And mushroom
This is really good
I'm going to go for the tomato and asparagus
I like the look of that
Here's the normal menu
It's just on the table
It's actually a whole book
And it's got English in as well as Japanese
It's got pictures of everything
There's actually quite a lot of choice
And there's some sides and things
The special thing about Coco Curry
Is that you can really customise your curry
You can choose the type of sauce you want
There's beef and hashed beef
Or just the regular one
Then you can choose how much rice you want
The standard is 300g
Or you can have a slightly smaller one
Or you can go all the way up to 900g
Of rice!
That would be a big meal
Then this is your spice level
When you order they ask you which one you want
Phil's going for no. 3
Which is what he's had before
He said it was actually pretty spicy
Yeah, and you can have up to 10
You're not allowed to have over level 5
Unless you've already tried the level 5
It actually is pretty spicy
Unlike a lot of Japanese food
The next one is the mildness level
If you don't want a spicy curry
You can have more of a sweet curry instead
Quite a lot of food is spicy here
Do you think?
Yeah, not crazy...
When they say spicy, you can actually taste it
Whereas in the UK you can't
They'll say a korma is spicy
But really it isn't
So yes, if they say spicy you can definitely taste it
I like quite spicy food
But it's not crazy
I would be worried about going for a 5
I think you should do it
It's breakfast!
When we go to Tokyo
We're meeting up with our friend
Who won a chilli eating contest
So I want her to try the really strong Coco Curry
And see if she can handle it
She probably can
She did win the contest
I'm very proud of her!
And finally on the menu we've got all the toppings
So you can have eggs
Spring onion, sweetcorn
Tuna
That's garlic bits - probably not for breakfast!
And there's some extra toppings down here
I was worried they didn't have the cheese any more
But they just don't have a picture of it
I've ordered cheese in mine
What else is on there?
This is going to show up how slow I am at reading
It's really frustrating me actually
Ebi asai
Maybe something shrimp?
Arigato gozaimasu!
I don't know if this is a new thing at Coco Curry
They've got a sign on the wall
Saying they now do nan breads
Naan breads
There's a garlic naan
A cheese and garlic naan
And a plain naan
We've just gone for the plain one
For breakfast!
It's actually bigger than I thought
There's my hand for scale
It smells really good
It's a big and unique breakfast
Here's my veggie curry with asparagus
And tomato
It actually is pretty big
I haven't seen many small Japanese portions yet
And here's Phil's
What sort of meat is yours?
It's pork
Pork katsu
And just plain - you didn't get any toppings?
No, I had the cheese before
And I found it too much
Oh yeah, I like the cheese
I like the texture
It was a bit thick, maybe
A bit too much?
You can kind of see the cheese in mine
In there
Looks good!
And the nice fluffy rice
There's the cheese
Look at it!
This is really good!
Mine is the standard level
It does have a little bit of spice
It's not actually hot or spicy
But you can tell it's got spice in it
The cheese is actually really stringy!
It tastes really good and it's a nice texture
Bu tit makes it quite hard to eat nicely
On the table we've got this "sauce"
I've seen just generic sauce in quite a few places
This which, I can't read
Tobi something
And there's also these pickles
I've just noticed they've got a big poster on the wall
For the vegetarian curry
Didn't see that when I came in!
That was great, it really was special, rich and tasty!
I'm really full now
Probably could have gone for the smaller rice actually
But what a great start to the day
Breakfast of kings!
Today I'm having a look round Amemura
It's short for America Mura
Which means American Village
I think this is America Mura
We've got the stars and stripes
And: Mickey Mouse!