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It’s pretty “popular” in United States also, well at least in my group of peers whenever we’re going for sushi one of us will have ordered katsu curry. My abso
by pen2l 2y ago
It’s pretty “popular” in United States also, well at least in my group of peers whenever we’re going for sushi one of us will have ordered katsu curry.
My absolute favorite is the curry as it’s made by Yayume sushi in San Ramon.
- incanus77 2y agoIt’s very common in Portland, OR — I had pork katsu this week at a Hawaiian place. Curry less so, but plenty of non-sushi Japanese restaurants around.
- barber_the_dope 2y ago[dead]
- tkgally 2y agoThat's interesting. In Japan, you might have a hard time finding a place that serves both sushi and katsu curry. Restaurants tend to specialize.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoI suspect it's because in the US, it all gets lumped together under the "Japanese food" category. I suspect the dishes being foreign in origin makes people less likely to consider them as separate categories. I can confirm that I have the same thing in my part of the US though. A lot of restaurants will offer sushi and ramen both on the menu, with some other dishes like katsu curry showing up here and there. I would say the best sushi/ramen places here do specialize (just like you said about Japan), but it's pretty common to see places which don't.
- tptacek 2y agoThey specialize here too, but midrange sushi spots always have a section of the menu catering to the one family member who hates sushi.
- zdragnar 2y agoQuite a few people in the US have an aversion to eating raw meat, including sushi. Any mid range restaurant is going to offer more than just sushi so that there's something for everyone when a group wants to go out to eat.
- antimemetics 2y agoAlways love to shock US-Americans with the fact that we eat raw pork in Germany (google mettigel)
- zdragnar 2y agoHeh, it probably would have been more shocking a generation or two ago. My mom liked to joke that her mom would overcook pork chops so badly that they would shatter if you dropped them. She was terrified of trichinosis, probably at least partially justifiably so. In fact, I'd never even heard of eating pork as anything other than well-done until I saw Gordon Ramsay cook a pork chop medium rare.
- im3w1l 2y agoHere in Sweden, I've seen some restaurants (I can't speak to the frequency of it) having cooked fish in some of the choices.
- sleepybrett 2y agoSure, in america you might have a hard time finding a restaurant that serves both cheese burgers and american style spaghetti w/ meatballs. But when abroad you might find an 'american restaurant' that has both on their menu. I think it's just down to people starting a 'foreign restaurant', there may just not be enough market for a specialty foreign food so you pack in a few popular dishes together and run a 'foreign country restaurant' instead of just a specialty place. Certainly even in my corner of america (the pnw) where sushi is quite popular, we have a mix of places that just do sushi, or most do sushi and a few other dishes, or just a 'japanese restaurant'.
- Zefiroj 2y agoThe cheesecake factory, amongst other chains.
- sleepybrett 2y agoSure, and in japan you might find the japanese equivalent. The basic argument was though that you find these ultra specialized places mostly within the country of the foods origin and that they are more common than more broad places. Which I think is a worldwide trueism.
- aidenn0 2y agoAlmost without exception, restaurants in the US that specializes in fish will have non-fish options, because there's a sizeable minority that will not eat fish at all (or at least anything still recognizable as fish).