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Hikaru Utada (43) lamented on X on November 8 that she’d ordered chicken curry and didn’t get a single piece of chicken in it — “So sad.” Nikkansports.com reported the remark, and a thread sprang up on 5ch’s “Entertainment & Sports News+” board. Replies ranged from sympathy (“That’s rough”) to a flood of copycat jokes citing other “foods whose name doesn’t match their contents” — Bon Curry, melon bread, taiyaki — turning the thread into a running gag about whether meat is ever actually in the dish. Meanwhile, some defended the restaurant, pointing out that at a proper place the meat in a long-simmered curry just melts until it’s invisible, while others noted it’s no different from complaining when beef stew has no beef in it. The thread split between people treating it as a harmless joke and those reacting more pointedly to her comment itself.
Hikaru Utada (43) posted on X on the 8th, lamenting, “I ordered chicken curry and there wasn’t a single piece of chicken in it. So sad.”
The post immediately drew a big response, with sympathetic replies like “That’s rough,” “The chicken broth flavor must still be in there, though,” and “I’ve had bacon lettuce burgers with no bacon three separate times, so I totally get that sadness.”
Others, meanwhile, said things like “I bet a new song was born from that moment,” hoping a chickenless chicken curry might inspire a new track.
Source: nikkansports.com / Original article here
What people said
It is in there, though.
And yet Kukure Curry actually has 'kukure' in it, you know.
Sounds like the type who thinks 'umani' (a simmered dish, 'uma' sounding like 'horse') actually has horse meat in it.
If it weren't for me, you'd have totally missed that.
Acting like such a food connoisseur, but this place is full of guys with the most bottom-tier diets imaginable.
There's no way she'd order at a restaurant she knew nothing about and get that.
It was probably a retort pouch curry she bought online.
That happens sometimes with those.
Uguisu bread actually DOES have uguisu (bush warbler) in it, dammit! 😡
Same as if beef stew has no beef in it.
Isn't it weirder to be bashing Utada over this?
She was just picturing European-style curry, so now she's disappointed — that's all this is.
European-style curry is the one that gets simmered longer, right?
Asian-style curries don't simmer as long, do they?
Never seen pork or beef in it there either.
No way I'd have the nerve to order at CoCo Ichibanya with zero toppings.
It's in there, come on — it's not like this is CoCo Ichibanya.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
The “no chicken in the chicken curry” complaint spiraled into a running joke because of a shared understanding that Japanese food culture has long included items whose names don’t match their actual contents — melon bread, taiyaki, Bon Curry, and the like. Most of the thread’s posts simply piled onto that familiar gag, and several commenters shared their own experience of rarely spotting actual meat chunks in chain-restaurant curry. Where opinions diverged was over whether to treat this as a harmless slice-of-life laugh or as a celebrity airing a trivial grievance — the same remark drew both warm sympathy and a cooler, more critical reaction. It’s also worth noting there’s no clear food-labeling standard for how much chicken a dish needs to contain to be called “chicken curry” — the amount varies widely by restaurant and cooking method, which is exactly why this kind of pile-on joke reliably catches fire every time.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment & Sports News+) thread “[Music] Hikaru Utada (43): “I ordered chicken curry and there wasn’t a single piece of chicken in it. So sad.”“
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