Japanese curry is always a tasty dish. This Sapporo Curry cup of noodles from Sanyo combines ramen with curry soup for a tasty bit of food. There is a great variety of curries in Japan and the city of Sapporo is the originator of soup curry. Soup curry has a soup stock made with different spices (even medicinal herbs which is how it started in Sapporo), chicken, and other vegetables. The term "soup curry" comes from a restaurant called Magic Spice in Sapporo that coined it in 1993.
I've reviewed a number of curry cup noodles, including the grandfather of all curry instant noodles, Nissin Curry Cup Noodle. While writing this post I realized I had reviewed other tasty curry cup noodles too, but had not reviewed Nissin's Curry Cup Noodle on its own, something that will be rectified shortly. I was originally going to compare this curry with the Nissin Cup Noodle, but that is not going to be a good comparison as they are very different styles of curry. Nissin's curry soup is thicker or creamier, while this one is thinner and more like a soup broth.
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This particular cup of noodles has a really interesting color scheme. It makes heavy use of a bright forest green backround with bold yellow print outlined in black. The black and white logo on these Sanyo cups is also really cool.
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lid of the cup is in nice light pink that actually contrasts pretty
good with the bold black outline of the logo and balances well with the
white. They don't show the entire logo here and the top portion is
showing one of the pretty Nogizaka46 muscial group idols. I think the
pink is related to the Nogizaka promotions.
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The side of the cup shows a little blurb about soup curry, but it really isn't that informative. Underneath are cooking directions (the usual pour in boiling water and wait 3 minutes), and nutritional information.
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Manufacturer's information and ingredients.
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The front of the ramen cup. It shows a nice tasty ramen with big chunks of vegetable and pieces of chicken. The colors of this cup pop nicely and would show up well on a shelf. The logo of the brand is very cool as I mentioned earlier. The logo looks like a Japanese family emblem and it has a great stylized design. It show a pair of chopsticks picking up noodles, but could be a great wave or even the roof of a house. Just awesome graphic design.
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Lifting the lid shows the autograph of one of the Nogizaki46 idols and reveals the noodles underneath coated in curry soup powder.
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The curry soup powder dusts all of the toppings. Included are cabbage, red peppers, eggplant, and pieces of ground chicken. Looks pretty nice.
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I added boiling water up to the fill line, closed the lid and waited for the customary 3 minutes. Nice curry smells came from the soup.
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The rehydrated noodles and ingredients. You can see a fair bit of vegetable which I always like, and Japanese eggplant / Chinese eggplant which is always nice to have. The Asian eggplants are quite good and are different from European eggplant.
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With any curry soup you have to mix it well to make sure all of the curry roux powder is dissolved.
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I have to say this curry was a delight for the tastebuds. There was a wonderful curry aroma coming off it and the soup wasn't thick, but it wasn't thin in texture either. The curry taste was a little different, a little sharper / a hint of herbal, and it was pretty rich tasting. The noodles had a good chew and were a type of round noodle that was normal in thickness or maybe just a little thicker. The little bits of chicken were good and the eggplant is always a treat to have. This is a very good cup of noodles that I would buy again and made for a nice change from the thicker curries in other noodles. It is always nice to try specialties from around Japan in a cup of noodles!
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Closeup of some of the noodles, a piece of ground chicken and a piece of eggplant.
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