TOKYO -- Here's Go Go Curry's most famous (or is that infamous?) dish.
Curry fans can disagree on what toppings are the best: Pork cutlet, or chicken? Skip the meat entirely and go for the veggies? What about a hard-boiled egg? Go Go Curry doesn't want you to have to go through this agonizing decision process, which is why it offers Major Curry. This giant plate of food is piled high with all five of Go Go's toppings: two sausages, pork and chicken katsu, fried shrimp with tartar sauce, and the aforementioned egg.
I'd never actually had this before -- and didn't even come close to finishing it all -- but since Go Go had actually lowered the price from 1550 yen (about $15) to 1000 yen ($10), and since a professional photographer was along for the ride, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to capture Major Curry in all its ridiculously oversized glory.
Is it delicious? Of course. But the usual perfect balance of curry to rice to toppings is upset by the addition of all this stuff on top, so I think I'll stick with normal katsu curry. Oh, and of course this isn't Go Go's largest dish. No, that would be the absolutely insane World Champion Curry, which is all of this on a much bigger plate of rice and curry -- it's a whopping 2.5 kilograms of food. Insane.
We've been noticing that Japanese restaurants tend to use massive portions as an advertising tool. For example, while I was in the Shinjuku branch of Go Go, I saw the World Champion Curry on the wall in a newspaper article about giant-sized food portions. Also in the article was an ice cream shop in Nakano Broadway, so I went to find it during another game-shopping trip:
Yep, that's eight different flavors of soft-serve (including blueberry and green tea) at Daily Chiko, for the low low price of just 350 yen ($3.50). Can you do it? Would you even try?
And that's not even mentioning the Mega Mac.
Top photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com, lower photo: Chris Kohler/Wired.com
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