The Least Useful Guide to Fukuoka

Tired of greasy Tonkotsu (pork bone soup) ramen?  Why not try curry?

It could sound wired, but in fact, based on my subjective observation, we seem to have more curry restaurants per capita in Fukuoka than in other cities.

Particularly within my walking radius (5km or something) you will find curry restaurants in nearly every block. Not only Indians, but also are Nepali, Sri-Lankan, Thai, and of course domestically interpreted curry (thick sauce accompanied with sticky rice and pickled Rakkyo—a kind of shallot roots) competing with each other.

Why? A local informant said that there were many high-tech and IT companies in this area, and so were a large numbers of people working for such companies or studying such things. As a result, curry restaurants have been established in order to satisfy their appetite as well as to comfort their longing for home. I haven’t seen, South-Asian-looking people in these restaurants apart from the staff working there, though.

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   As I have just started developing my taste for ‘genuine’ curry (such curries didn’t exist  around me when I was being brought up) only recently,  I’m not sure if I am entitled to comment on the taste of curry. So I can’t recommend a particular restaurant to you (as usual in this blog – sorry for being least useful).  But when it comes to cost against fillingness, I’m quite sure t that curry is one of the best options.