Go Go Curry – 282 West 38th street between 7th and 8th Avenue.

Go Go Curry is a curry fast food restaurant in midtown. The place is covered in articles and photos of the Yankee’s Hideki Matsui. Matsui’s number is 55 and “Go” is Japanese for 5. So the place has a special on the #5 days of the month where if you buy a curry that day you get a free topping coupon. Also they give free topping coupons the day after Matsui hits a homerun.

Japanese curry isn’t anything like Indian curry at all. I saw on the menupages page for Go Go Curry someone expressed disappointment with Go Go saying that instead they were going to stick to eating Indian curry. Japanese curry is a comfort food, and really not that complicated. I make curry at home which basically consists of stir-fried potatoes, carrots and chicken with some curry roux dissolved in water.

The secret ingredient... is MSG

At Go Go Curry I usually get a “single” which is a medium with pork katsu which is pork with panko (breadcrumbs) and fried. I also get a hard-boiled egg for my topping (which is why I chose that particular photo up top). For me I feel absolutely stuffed when I’m finished, but not necessarily explodey-stuffed. The pork katsu is really good and there’s just the right amount of rice and lettuce with it. I like eating the hard-boiled egg one slice at a time with each spoonful of pork, curry and rice. It’s best when it’s fresh and the katsu still has a little crunch to it. There are other toppings too like chicken katsu, sausage and shrimp (the Grand Slam gives you all the different toppings). Only problem with the Grand Slam is there’s really not enough rice, and last time we tried getting more rice they said no.

Go Go Curry isn’t too expensive, I’d say $7-$8 or so depending on whether or not you get a topping with your curry. Even though on occasion I make my own chicken curry, but sometimes the people in my office like to all go get Go Go Curry on a Friday as our sort of special occasion lunch.