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Hello there!
Man, summer is coming to an end.
I intended to post a ton this summer! *sob*

Anyway, I'll leave the usual excuses at that.
Today is all about curry! It's a relatively new place, so I hope this is helpful.

Iidabashi, Tokyo
Spice-ya

To be honest, I had planned to go to a different curry restaurant that day. A friend told me, "Are they open today? The info I'm looking at says they aren't."
Oh no! I had overlooked the fact that they were only open for lunch...
But I have a huge stock of curry places I want to visit! So, I headed to another one, and...
They had a group reservation and only had terrace seating available. No matter how late it is, eating curry outside in the middle of summer is tough. Especially in the urban jungle of Iidabashi. A skyscraper of air conditioner exhaust units.
I'll come back another time!

Just as I was starting to feel a bit lost, *ping!*
(Not quite as dramatic as Seiko Matsuda)
I remembered this place, which I had seen in an online article!
It was close to the second place that turned us away, and when I peeked in, they said they had seats available today! Yay!

First, a toast with beer. They have a great selection of beers, so I had the Shiga Kogen IPA.
With a crisp bitterness, this has to go well with curry.

Appetizer. I feel like it was something other than papad.
The saltiness and light texture go well with beer.

The person I was with is a very light eater, so if I ordered everything that caught my eye like I usually do, I'd be digging my own grave later (I've almost choked on my own ambition a few times in the past). I couldn't hold back completely, so after consulting, we ordered one salad that we really wanted.

Original Potato Salad with Sesame and Coriander

Whoa!? This is not the potato salad I was expecting!!
But this is the dawn of a new potato salad.
Spices are mixed into unmashed potatoes, with the occasional kick of green chili heat. It's like, fresh but hot! Crunchy and fluffy textures. I don't think you'd find this at a typical Indo-Nepali place.

3-Curry Plate x 2 + 1 extra

So, we ordered two 3-curry plates. Since there were 7 types of curry to choose from, we added one more to complete the set between the two of us! A very luxurious way to order for a first visit.

The plate comes loaded with basmati rice, papad, paratha, bhaji, achaar, and more!

The owner kindly said, "You'll want to take a picture with them all together, right!" and brought them out quickly.

It's a masterpiece when all 7 are lined up! What a great sight!!!
I carelessly forgot to make a note of the curry types... even though I repeated them to confirm so many times...
According to the restaurant's website:

So, I'll probably conquer these
It might be obvious, but they all have distinct faces, and it's not just the ingredients that have changed.

What left an impression were the 'Not-Sweet Adult Butter Chicken' and the 'Ripe Tomato Prawn Masala'

The butter chicken is apparently a revival recipe from back when butter chicken wasn't well-known in Japan yet, and it's certainly different from the butter chicken I usually eat! I have a problem with lacking vocabulary, but I actually prefer this one! It's a flavor that draws a line from butter chicken that just acts smug about being sweet.
The prawn masala is full of the freshness of tomatoes and the umami of shrimp that you can't get just by adding them later, filling your mouth! But there's also that exciting feeling of, 'Oh, the spice is there too!'
They are all unique, yet easy to eat, and all of them are stars. It's fun to eat while thinking, 'Which one goes well with rice?' or 'This one would be good with paratha!'

I had beer, and the set was so voluminous that I thought my stomach would burst... bliss.
By the way, in our house, we call it 'stomach-full'.
(This is surely the most trivial thing for you all this second half of the year. Please use it.)

The other appetizer menu items were also all very tempting. I'm sure the owner really loves alcohol and delicious food. And the lineup makes you feel their desire for people to enjoy truly delicious curry and spice dishes. I'll add that I'm just feeling this on my own.

Next time, I'll either increase the number of people or take my big-eater mom who lives nearby (her slight weakness is that she's not good with spicy food).
More than that, I'll just keep visiting.

I spoke with the owner a little, and they are a highly skilled person who has done product development at numerous companies, such as the famous Siddique. Yet, they are very friendly, cheerful, and attentive. I think the atmosphere that makes it easy for everyone to enjoy is unique to them!

Thank you for the meal!
By the way, the top image is of the interior decoration, but there is a secret hidden in it!
A secret that will make you exclaim 'Wow!!' with joy.
Please check it out at the restaurant!

Thank you for reading until the end this time as well!
See you later!