Curry (Taiwan)

Oh curry, how I love you.

No seriously, I eat a whole bunch of Japanese-style curry. Usually make it myself using the Golden Curry roux blocks since it’s easy and fairly cheap in terms of amount of food to dollars. But that’s another topic for another day.

Taiwan has a whole bunch of stores and the like which are based of/direct branches of Japanese stores. One of them is the curry specialty shop that serves Japanese-style curry dishes.

We went to one of these curry shops in one of the underground malls connected to the Taipei Main Station, called “Magic Curry”.

Magic Curry

We had the set meals, which consists of soup, salad, main dish, dessert, and a drink (in that order, which is kinda strange -you’d think the drink would come first). I ordered beef curry -extra spicy, just to prove to myself how manly I am.

Soup and Salad

My soup was a ginger and chicken soup. It was okay, bit too much ginger, not enough chicken taste. Salad had this weird dressing on it, tasted like orange cream to me.

Beef Curry

The curry came with a rice plate and a curry pot. It’s hard to tell in the picture above, but my sister and I both got beef curry, but my extra spicy version was so much redder than hers.

The curry was pretty good, a lot sweeter than I’m used to, but the flavor seemed… fuller, I guess. It was also a whole lot spicier than I was expecting, I must have drank at least 4 cups of water before I was done.

Dessert and Drink

Dessert was a green tea-flavored jelly garnished with red beans. That was pretty good, kind of a refreshing taste. The iced coffee wasn’t bad either. Judging from the front of the store, I think the coffee was cold-brewed. Hard to tell though, with the amount of sugar and cream that came with my coffee.

The set meal ran at 240NT ($7-ish), so it was a bit on the pricey side in Taiwan terms. But it’s not bad for a 4 course meal.