From: kenmlin@aol.com   
      
   "Bobbie Sellers"  wrote in message news:nrqgov$o30$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   SHINYA SHOKUDOU   
        Alternative Name:深夜食堂; Shinya ShokudÅ   
    Shinya Shokudo   
        Genre(s):Seinen, Slice Of Life   
        Author &Artist:Abe Yarou   
        Status:Ongoing Shinya Shokudou 42 will coming next   
      
        Shinya Shokudou Manga Summary:   
      
        A food manga that revolves around curry.   
   Nominated for the 2nd Manga Taisho Award (2009).   
   Won the 39th Japan Cartoonist Awards Grand Prize (2010).   
      
      And this is about a food stall that had a small menu   
   and the people who frequent it which seems to be people   
   in the water trade as well as others.  While cold curry   
   is one of the special treats offered by the food stall   
   many other simple dishes that you might have at   
   home are featured on an eccentric menu.   
      
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   There's only one item on the menu:  pork broth (ton-jiru) dinner set.  But   
   the owner/chef will gladly make anything provided that he has the   
   ingredients in stock (sort of like Iron Chef but in much smaller scale).   
      
   The curry is actually called "yesterday's curry."  In Japan or at least in   
   this book, they believe that curry tastes even better if it sits overnight   
   and reheated.   
      
   I really felt that manga like Oishinbo became too technical and characters   
   don't enjoy eating at all.  Rather it's more of a transcription of what the   
   writer interviewed so I really enjoy this manga as they are not talking   
   about foods or ingredients that most folks cannot relate to.  The author   
   also does a good job of using food as a background for human-interest   
   stories.   
      
   The Western Addition Branch of SFPB stocks the first seven volumes if anyone   
   is interested.   
      
   Ken   
      
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