First up was a specialist Hamburg steak restaurant called Torokeru Otona Hamburg.which translated into English is Melting Hamburg for Adults.....
Now I have been to this restaurant before for the Shimokitazawa Geki Kara fes (See write up here) and it is a little pricey, but the food is good.
After a short wait, the food arrived.
I started with a taste of the curry. Now that wasn't a hint of cumin at all, that was a slap in the face of cumin!! Very nice!
Now I have a strange way of eating food. Usually I will eat all of the vegetables first working up to and finishing with my favourite vegetable. This used to really frustrate my father who always tried to cram a bit of everything on to his fork with each mouthful. So, I started with the carrot then the potato and finishing with the broccoli (in my opinion, the King or Queen of vegetables!). Next came the fun part, piercing the yolk of the egg
and then pouring the curry over the top!
The hamburg steak was literally fall apart tender, at time breaking up and falling off of the fork, but just delicious! Like I said, pricey, but delicious. All up, including bread and a soft drink, 2,200 yen.
Finishing up, I walked around the neighbourhood to digest a little before moving on to the next place. Now, I have been coming to Shimokitazawa regularly for over 9 years and I never get tired of wandering around the area.
Feeling ready for my next plate I wandered over to my next curry adventure, Mikazuki Curry Samurai which is a relatively new curry restaurant on the restaurant scene in Shimokitazawa.
It has a sister restaurant also in Shimokitazawa called Rojiura Curry Samurai which I have not yet been to but will be trying after experiencing Mikazuki's curry!! I had to wait about 30 minutes and it left me wondering if the wait would be worth it (I don't like waiting for food....). Entering the restaurant there was a strong aroma of cumin (positive sign). I ordered the lamb curry which was not their curry fes offering, so you can order this one any time! After a further 10 minutes wait it finally arrived. This had better be worth it, I thought to myself.
I had ordered the lamb curry with a soft boiled egg and extra broccoli and extra spicy. At first bite I was left a little underwhelmed with the spice level. The lamb was very tender and the vegies added a nice contrast in texture, some extra crunch! The broccoli had been deep fried with garlic. Suddenly the spiciness started building and there was a hint of a numbing element to the curry too. By the time I had finished the plate, my taste buds were dancing! I will always say that Bar Loaded's chicken nanban curry is my favourite (see first blog post about the curry fes for this one), but in this curry I had found a close second favourite. Definitely do yourself a favour and head to Mikazuki curry samurai and check out their curries!
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