A highly rated curry restaurant in Osaka, Kyu Yam Tei Nakanoshima Yokan offers a good variety of curries, from Japanese-style spiced versions to Indian and even Thai ones. A standard meal lets you choose two or three curries from the day’s selection, which usually features four options. Each set comes with rice, a bean curry, a small salad and a dessert. On our past visits, we’ve enjoyed the chicken keema curry, pork keema curry and Thai red curry with shrimp.
For an even more substantial meal, the special plate is available after 1pm. This generous platter comes with spiced grilled chicken, two kinds of keema curry, a meat or fish soup curry, pickles, a bean curry, two side dishes and a dessert. You can also choose your preferred rice: Japanese brown rice, Thai jasmine rice or a mixed-grain blend.
The restaurant’s interior looks like an old-world English mansion, with chandeliers, lace table mats, dainty vases and china, and floral wallpaper lending it a retro countryside charm. At the entrance, a deer trophy mount hangs on the wall, reinforcing the restaurant’s eccentric vibe. Peculiar as it may sound, the décor seems to captivate the restaurant’s devoted regulars, who cite the setting as a unique part of its dining experience.
Note: this restaurant only takes cash