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The katsu curry is a pork cutlet served with rice and curry sauce.
Japanese curry follows a grand tradition of fusion cuisine in Japan. Dishes like hamburger, that the Japanese adapt to their tastes, have their own food group: yoshoku. The meat-based curry sauce, which simmers for two days, is exquisite over deepfried and breaded seafood and meats, a technique acquired from Portuguese traders in the 16th century.
The basic, very hearty curry meal can be supplemented with extra curry sauce, rice and meat. There’s also a weekly curry special. Recently it was chicken curry nanban ($12.50 at dinner) featuring buckwheat noodles, chicken, shimeji mushrooms, green onions, bonito stock and curry sauce. The tonkatsu dinner ($13.75) started with an appetizer of
January Pie Special Lemon Meringue
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MICHELLE LE
The spicy noodles offer a hearty portion of ground beef.
Japanese curry follows a grand tradition of fusion cuisine in Japan.
shitake mushrooms, stuffed and grilled. Then came a creamy miso soup, dotted with cubes of soft tofu. A mortar and pestle came next, with instruction to grind up the sesame seeds and mix in the sweet sauce. Perfectly cooked panko-crusted pork was accompanied by shredded cabbage (for health), potato salad and rice. The seafood curry dinner
New Years Eve late dinner 10 pm ~ 2 am $50 Dinner 5:30-9:30pm
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PRIME RIB DINNER Friday & Saturday Nights Starting at 5pm
starting at $15.99 includes choice of a cup of soup or house salad, cornbread or garlic bread and a slice of pie for dessert (excludes Fresh Fruit Pies & Cheesecakes).
French Restaurant since 1989 1405 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040
($14.95) started with a crisp iceberg lettuce salad. A large bowl simmered with three prawns, lots of calamari, and a few scallops in curry sauce. Thinly sliced daikon with shredded lemon rind made a refreshing side dish. Your menu choices runneth over. Steamed rice: white or See MURUCCI’S, page 16
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CHARCOAL BROILER
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