カレーと言えば何色でしょう。通常は黄色に近い色を思い浮かべるのではないでしょうか。長崎のレストラン「夕月」では，出てきたカレーの色にひとまず打ちのめされます。広めの丸皿のふちまで満たされたサラサラ系のカレーは，かなり赤寄りのオレンジです。相応の辛さを覚悟しつつスプーンで運んだその一口目で，辛みとは程遠いまろやかさに拍子抜けしますが，今度はその独特の味わいに夢中でスプーンを動かすことになります。
What color do you think curry is generally. I guess the color which comes into people’s mind first is perhaps a yellowish one. In "Yuuzuki", a restaurant in Nagasaki, you’d be amazed by the color of the curry that is served there. The curry, which has a smooth texture, served on a somewhat large dish filled to the brim is quite reddish orange. You may expect it to be quite spicy on sight, then you try it and realize it is unexpectedly mild far from spicy, and perhaps end up being absorbed in eating it due to the distinctive taste.
何度か店舗の移転はあったものの，昭和の初めから営業している老舗「夕月」のカレーは，長崎のソウルフードの一つと言ってよい存在です。一般的な日本のカレーとも，本格的なインドカレーとも異なるその独特な味わいと，具材がとけ切ったスープに近いその口当たりは，長崎の人間でも好みの分かれるところですが，ハマる人にとっては中毒性を感じるほどのものです。家庭では決して再現できない味のこの食べ物は，あくまで「夕月のカレー」であり，普通にカレーと呼ぶべきではないのかもしれません。このお店でもう一つ特徴的なのが，各テーブルにおいてあるラッキョウです。全くクセがないのにクセになる不思議な味わいとカリッとした歯ごたえが，カレーのお供として最高の仕事をしてきます。
レトルトパックで販売もされているので，ネットで購入できますが，長崎に来たらぜひ，そのラッキョウと一緒に試してほしい一品です。
I can call the curry of “Yuuzuki” a soul food for some Nagasaki people because the restaurant is a long-established one which has lasted since the beginning of the Showa era despite changing its location several times. Their curry is somewhat different from both general Japanese curry and genuine Indian curry, and it has a smooth texture like soup with no solid ingredients, so it is somewhat controversial, I mean some people love it and others don’t so much even in Nagasaki, but I’m sure it is almost addictive for some people. I know I shouldn’t call it curry, perhaps “curry of Yuuzuki” , because the taste of it is totally different from the general homemade ones. There is one more thing that is also something special about this restaurant; it is pickled rakkyo placed on each table. Their rakkyo has no particular flavor but somehow wonderfully becomes habit-forming, and it also has a crispy texture that really goes best with their curry.
Their curry is sold in pouches so you can get it online, but I want you to enjoy it with their rakkyo here in Nagasaki.
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