That's not curry Hiei...

Right now, I'm scared of what those vials contain.
EDIT: Phew, still safe. So it's a bit of a Christmas and Valentines.

PhoenixG said:

That's not curry Hiei...

Fun fact: all of the ingredients listed/drawn from previous strips IS component of curry. Wine, chocolate, (grated) apple and lemon can be added to curry to improve the taste...the problem here being, there's no curry part to be reinforced on, as explained by the page before this. It's basically adding sugar, salt and pepper to boiling water and hope you can create dashi.

I mean...how bad is your cooking sense to substitute mirin with red wine and curry roux with chocolate?

Sounds like a Nutella, banana jelly and berry pizza I heard about on spacebattles once.

Very edible... as dessert.

Rathurue said:

I mean...how bad is your cooking sense to substitute mirin with red wine and curry roux with chocolate?

With Hiei, you're ahead of the game when everything involved is a substance from which humans can derive nutrition (or at least not be poisoned).

Amusingly, though, "curry" is just a corruption of the word meaning "sauce". It's usually meant to refer to anything from southern Asia that has a sauce on it (and "dry curry" lets the sauce evaoporate, so it doesn't even have to be liquid, either!), but that can cover a ludicrously wide range of things, and also includes things that are "inspired by" South Asian cooking, like Chicken Tikka Masala (actually invented in Scotland).

And it's not like Japanese curry has the same ingredients as what the rest of the world thinks of as curry. In the first place, Hiei threw chocolate in as "roux" because Japanese curry (and pretty much ONLY Japanese curry) is made from solid bricks of condensed roux. Even outside of the condensing it part, roux is generally for European-style stews, and isn't in most curries. (It's in Japanese-style ones because Japan learned curry from the British back when they were only half-making curry, and mostly just throwing Indian spices into traditional stews.)

Hence, I'll give her more leeway on this one. It's certainly not Japanese curry, but Japanese curry isn't the only definition of "curry", nor even the one most people outside of Japan think of, and it's about as far from some curries as Japanese curry is, so it seems fair game to me.

I love his expression as an offended curry fan.

That's a stew, but it's no more a Japanese curry than it is actually "curry", which is colloquially known as a sauce with certain flavors and ingredients.

NWSiaCB said:

Amusingly, though, "curry" is just a corruption of the word meaning "sauce". It's usually meant to refer to anything from southern Asia that has a sauce on it (and "dry curry" lets the sauce evaoporate, so it doesn't even have to be liquid, either!), but that can cover a ludicrously wide range of things, and also includes things that are "inspired by" South Asian cooking, like Chicken Tikka Masala (actually invented in Scotland).

And it's not like Japanese curry has the same ingredients as what the rest of the world thinks of as curry. In the first place, Hiei threw chocolate in as "roux" because Japanese curry (and pretty much ONLY Japanese curry) is made from solid bricks of condensed roux. Even outside of the condensing it part, roux is generally for European-style stews, and isn't in most curries. (It's in Japanese-style ones because Japan learned curry from the British back when they were only half-making curry, and mostly just throwing Indian spices into traditional stews.)

Hence, I'll give her more leeway on this one. It's certainly not Japanese curry, but Japanese curry isn't the only definition of "curry", nor even the one most people outside of Japan think of, and it's about as far from some curries as Japanese curry is, so it seems fair game to me.

"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["curry"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the dish involved in this case is not that."