Bird CLASSICSTORIES
Chicken Curryチキンカレー
今となっては幻のカレー。Birdをオープンする数年前、ケンタロウがプロデュースして作った缶詰のカレーがあった。
3種類あった中で、とくにチキンカレーが大好きだった。蓋をパカッと開けてひっくり返しても引っかかって出てこないくらい、具のチキンが大きかった。いつでもどこでもすぐにケンタロウのおいしいカレーを食べることができて最高だった。どこの店で食べるよりもおいしかった。これさえあればカレー生活はずっと安泰だと思っていたのに、希望販売価格と同じくらいのコストがかかってしまったらしく、残念ながら商品化されずに初回の試作生産だけで終わってしまった。
あのカレーをBirdで再現したいと思ってケンタロウに相談した。そして出来上がったBirdのチキンカレー。
ケンタロウ曰く、「ダシが出やすい。1回こっきりじゃなくて毎日作るものやから、ダシを引き継いでいけるものにしたかった。優しく強いチキンの風味」
カレー缶は幻になったけど、Birdでは毎日食べられることになった。
Chicken Curryチキンカレー
The curry that was once a dream. A few years before Bird opened, Kentaro had developed a line of canned curries.
Of the three flavors, I loved the chicken curry one the most. The chicken pieces were so big that when you opened the can and tried to empty it, the pieces would stay stuck inside.
It was great that I could have Kentaro’s delicious curry anytime, anywhere, and right away. It was better than any I’d ever had at a restaurant. I thought that as long as I had his canned curry, I wouldn’t have to worry about it for the rest
of my life. Unfortunately, the price he was hoping to sell it at was the same as the cost it took to make it, so in the end the canned curry idea was abandoned after the first prototypes were made.
I wanted the curry to make a comeback at Bird, so I discussed it with Kentaro. And so it became Bird’s Chicken Curry.
Kentaro said, “It’s easy to make good stock. Because it’s not something that will be made just once but every day, I made the recipe with a stock with a base that is continuously carried over to the next batch.
That way, it always has a distinct, but not overpowering, chicken flavor.”
