Subject: Food
I love dumping stuff on my gohan -- do you ever have the
Japanese-style curry ("ka-reh") that's like spooning stew over rice?
Subject: Food
> I love dumping stuff on my gohan -- do you ever have
> the Japanese-style curry ("ka-reh") that's like
> spooning stew over rice?
When the Japanese imported "kareh raisu" at the beginning
of the Meiji-jidai, they thought it was a Western dish from
England. The British adopted a style of curry from Bengal,
where it is eaten with rice (Delhi eats it with chapati bread).
This was one factor that facilitated acceptance in Japan.
TABLE TALK: Curry and Rice and the Japanese
http://www.kikkoman.co.jp/world/new/forum/9704/02.htm
riceweb: a compendium of facts and figures about the world of rice
http://www.cgiar.org/irri/Riceweb/
Subject: Food: Curry Rice
Interesting about kare raisu. It was introduced into my family by the
newer
Japanese immigrants in our community (Should I refer to them as
Shin-issei?)--not something the grandparents knew. I think the thought
of
spooning the curry over rice which was served on a plate (not chawan)
was
more akin to Western dishes in our minds. It didn't seem strange to us
because we also happen to eat gumbo, red beans and rice and shrimp
Creole in
a similar fashion. Somehow I don't think of curry rice as a Japanese
dish so
much as a "Japanese version of a Western dish" (which it seems to be).
