Tripping Far Side

Dante and Yumiko are here! Now it's time for a food post, with someone in it!! Woot!

So we decided early (actually the day before) that there was only one place to have dinner. So after work, we hit the vending machine, grabbed a tall boy and walked north. Directly south of Kyoto Station is this chain restaurant called Coco Ichiban, which is a Japanese curry house. You can choose how many grams of rice, the type of curry, the meat, the toppings, and the spice level.

Now the spice is what Dante is really excited about. There's a 1-10 "star", where the higher the number, the spicier the curry. I suppose what's interesting is that they won't let you have above a 5 without trying lower levels first. Not that it's enforceable of course, just amusing that they can try to contain this man. Hehe, this time, Dante went all out, opting to go all the way for 10. Of course, the theory I heard was that there's a clamp at a certain level, where you don't feel the heat as bad. I don't buy that all. This guy was born to conquer the hotness, and considering Japanese people's intolerance to spice, it's more like a fact that just hasn't been realized yet. And what do you know, he didn't even break a sweat.

The beef katsu curry was good. Even though this 10 is a bit of a joke to him I think, I'm still impressed. He's like a statue I pointed out in front of the place we ate lunch at. Those aren't legs underneath that tanuki. No sir. That's 2 giant balls. For all to see, while the tanuki just smiles back. Yah, that's Dante.