Ghar - Minimalistic presentation yet unique and flavourful curry

Ghar

Another popular curry restaurant in Osaka, with a high tabelog score of 3.87 as of writing this post + 5x Hyakumeiten award from 2017 to 2022 (missing out in 2021). Dim restaurant ambience lighting with I believe Hinduism music playing in the background, setting yourself for the curry journey.

**Curry minced lamb with assorted vegetables**
Ghar

Vegetable Keema (¥1100)

In Japan they called this kind of curry as “Dry Curry” dish. This is essentially a lamb cooked with curry with vegetables, but without the actual curry at the final presentation.

The minced lamb meat cooked with curry is tender, juicy, flavourful and rustic. It is also accompanied by okra, chopped tomatoes, and pickled vegetables.

It doesn’t have any gamey taste, and the spice level is low, so people who can’t take much spice can try this dish too.

Overall, I find it a rather balance dish, with a fusion of Indian curry with a Japanese style, although leaning more towards Japanese style in the equation. Although I think it can do with a bit more generous on the meat and vegetables.

Rating: 3.5/5

**The curry also have an assorted vegetables and eggs in it**
Ghar

Pork Curry (¥1100)

The Pork Curry set comes with a separate rice and curry, and sides.

Curry: Unique taste with a lot of varieties of herb infuse in it, sweet potato and tomato. A very different style compared to a few other popular curry restaurants we ate in Japan. I like how they use sweet potato instead of regular potato, it gives the curry an additional dimension of sweetness.

Meat: The cut is pork belly and is cooked till tender. It also has spice and herb flavours from the curry, together with the natural fatty oil/portion from the pork fat, it also helps to give the curry a richer taste and more aromatic.

Rating: 3.5/5

Pickled Onion

I like that they have a Pickled Onion on the sides (free) for customer to add on to their dish. The pickled onion does give a layer of sweet and sour crunch when eaten together with the rice and meat.

Overall

We have tried 3 of the most popular curry restaurants in Osaka, 2 from this 2022 trip, and 1 from the 2019 trip, and they are:

Watanabe Curry - 3.75/5
BOTANI:CURRY - 3.75/5
Ghar (this review) - 3.5/5

All 3 are great, as you can read from the reviews, but vastly different styles and taste. It really depends what is your personal preferences, and if you ask for our preference, it is as per that order.

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