Joe Tomei here, it’s been a while, but here is another Funky Friday Find for all of you. (It may have gone up on Kirk’s Instagram, which is connected to this, so apologies if you see this two times)
My wife and I wanted to get some steps in our Pikmin Bloom app (ask me if you are curious), so we went to Kawaramachi. A bit down from the station, there is a side street that actually has three or four places, but on this day, they were closed except for Spice Restaurant Bonga https://maps.app.goo.gl/mXLyBxvAgZz4JDoT8
It’s a tiny place and seems to do big take out business. The dish pictured is my wife’s ボンが流カーレ(Bonga style curry) (she’s the better photographer), while I had the unpictured but also delicious Butter Chicken curry. We were fortunate, the Google review says that the place often sells out.
Kawaramachi was the wholesale textiles and clothes district of Kumamoto, which has pretty much disappeared with the advent of fast fashion, so some of the buildings and the side alleys have been converted into studios for artists and cafe/restaurants. The whole area has a Showa feel to it and the side alleys remind me of a lot of placess you see in other countries in Asia. Here are two articles (in Japanese) with photos, check it out and report back!
http://www.asahi.com/area/kumamoto/articles/MTW20999999440160179.html