May 01, 2008
CoCo Ichibanya
Was inspired to have a big plate of good-old Japanese style curry with katsu by an article in Wired pining for the thick, brown goodness. CoCo Ichibanya is an imported Japanese chain serving exactly that. There's one in the Taipei Main Station near where the SO works. Unlike me, she doesn't get Labor Day off, working for a governmental agency. So I went out to meet her there for lunch.
No surprises here. A thick pork cutlet breaded and fried. The big plate is filled with half rice and half curry sauce. You can choose various degrees of hotness for the curry, and choose extra or less white rice for a bit more or less money. Funny how her plate of eggplant-spinach curry cost just as much as my big-hunk-of-meat katsu curry.
A perfectly simple meal in a quiet, clean setting. Good thing I had the rest of the afternoon to sleep off the starch-and-meat induced digestive coma.
CoCo壹番屋(漢口店)
CoCo Ichibanya
台北市中正區漢口街1段19號B1樓
02-23822650