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Soup Curry Final Episode: Drama Notes
Spice 10: Drama Digest

Episode Synopsis. Wada Shingo (teishoku shop owner) finally reopens his late father's diner, the Himawari-tei. This time, he is in charge of it and has a brand new dish to offer, soup curry. His friends and his dad's regular customers come in to congratulate him. One loyal family friend and patron, Tashiro-san, comes in to taste Wada's own soup curry topped with his father's special egg rolls...
In the meantime...
Urata Hiroshi (actor / house husband) eats breakfast with his wife as his daughter comes in. He notices something different about her somehow...
Miura Yuji (cram school teacher) finally admits to his student Yuna that he has a long-term girlfriend...
Hirame Kiyoshi (KanKonSoSai planner) comes home to his wife with some unfortunate news...
Igarashi Seiji (cooking expert / TV host) seems in a hurry to finish filming an episode since he has an important event to go to...
(info and pix: soupcurrydrama)
Drama Notes:

Himawari-tei. Wada's shop "Himawari" means sunflower, hence, the sunflower motif at the shop.

Soup Curry Recipe. Here is a translation of the a Standard Soup Curry recipe from the drama's blog:
(translation: danburi)
Cooking Steps:
1) In a frying pan, put some vegetable oil and heat it. Add cloves, cumin and cinnamon and stir fry until the flavor is released. Ingredients [I]
2) Add chopped onion and stir fry until it gets a nice caramel color. Ingredients [I]
3) Add Ingredients [A] and keep stir frying until flavor is well mixed.
4) In a stew pot, add paste made in step 3 along with consommé cube, chicken legs and water from Ingredients [II] and cook over medium heat.
5) Keep skimming off fat. Add bay leaf and simmer over medium heat for 40 minutes.
6) Take chicken leg out of the soup gently and set aside. Filter the soup. Put filtered soup back in the stew pot and add Soup Curry’s most important ingredients, spices from Ingredients [B] and mix well.
7) On a serving plate, arrange chicken leg and the Vegetables and pour them over gently with soup from step 6.
8) Enjoy~!

Episode Synopsis. Wada Shingo (teishoku shop owner) finally reopens his late father's diner, the Himawari-tei. This time, he is in charge of it and has a brand new dish to offer, soup curry. His friends and his dad's regular customers come in to congratulate him. One loyal family friend and patron, Tashiro-san, comes in to taste Wada's own soup curry topped with his father's special egg rolls...
In the meantime...
Urata Hiroshi (actor / house husband) eats breakfast with his wife as his daughter comes in. He notices something different about her somehow...
Miura Yuji (cram school teacher) finally admits to his student Yuna that he has a long-term girlfriend...
Hirame Kiyoshi (KanKonSoSai planner) comes home to his wife with some unfortunate news...
Igarashi Seiji (cooking expert / TV host) seems in a hurry to finish filming an episode since he has an important event to go to...
(info and pix: soupcurrydrama)
Drama Notes:

Himawari-tei. Wada's shop "Himawari" means sunflower, hence, the sunflower motif at the shop.

Theme song. The drama's theme song "Nichiyobi" was performed by rock band trio, back number. For song lyrics and translations by danburi, click here.
(info: jpopasia)
(info: jpopasia)
Soup Curry Recipe. Here is a translation of the a Standard Soup Curry recipe from the drama's blog:
(translation: danburi)
SOUP CURRY RECIPE
(Standard Type)
Serves 4
Ingredients :
(Standard Type)
Serves 4
Ingredients :
I | II | |
Vegetable oil (as needed) Cumin (a pinch) Cloves (a pinch) Cinnamon (1/2 stick) Onions (1 1/2, chopped) | Water (1.5 L) Chicken legs (4 pcs) Consommé cubes (1.5 pc) Bay leaf (1 pc) | |
A | B | |
Ground garlic (1 Tbs) Ground ginger (1 Tbs) Pineapple juice (1 Tbs) Granular katsuo dashi (1.5 tsp) Tomato purée (2 Tbs) | .... | Cumin (2.5 g) Coriander (2.5 g) Cardamom (2 g) Garam masala (2 g) Ketchup (2 Tbs) Nam pla (Thai fish sauce) (1.5 Tbs) Basil (as needed) |
Vegetables |
Potatoes (4 pcs, boiled and peeled) Green bell pepper (4 pcs, cut in half, then suage) Carrots (2 pcs, cut in half, then boiled) |
Cooking Steps:
1) In a frying pan, put some vegetable oil and heat it. Add cloves, cumin and cinnamon and stir fry until the flavor is released. Ingredients [I]
2) Add chopped onion and stir fry until it gets a nice caramel color. Ingredients [I]
3) Add Ingredients [A] and keep stir frying until flavor is well mixed.
4) In a stew pot, add paste made in step 3 along with consommé cube, chicken legs and water from Ingredients [II] and cook over medium heat.
5) Keep skimming off fat. Add bay leaf and simmer over medium heat for 40 minutes.
6) Take chicken leg out of the soup gently and set aside. Filter the soup. Put filtered soup back in the stew pot and add Soup Curry’s most important ingredients, spices from Ingredients [B] and mix well.
7) On a serving plate, arrange chicken leg and the Vegetables and pour them over gently with soup from step 6.
8) Enjoy~!