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Japanese curry (Karee raisu)

Japanese curry is actually a localized Japanese food.
It is quite popular in Japan, and taste different from Indian curry.
We use Japanese rice.

About curry souse, we use Japanese curry base(Karee Ruu).
In Utrecht we can get Japanese curry base in Toko Central. (SB curry base)

Basic ingredients are
- meat or sea foods
- Onion
- Garlic
- Ginger

Japanese mothers make JP curry by their own styles.
Some people put Soya souse, or Sake in the curry source.

I often put,
- Maggie soup base
- Sake or wine
- Soya souse
- Tomato
- Japanese brown souse

Additional topping
- Egg
- sausage
- some vegetables
- some kind of pickles

Kyaraben (character bento) workshop

Kyaraben, a shortened form of character bento, is a very popular bento style in Japan which features food decorated to look like Anime or Kawaii characters. At the workshop you learn how to make authentic Kyaraben and the result you can take home. More info http://tokyodoll.web.fc2.com/workshop/bentoworkshop.html