The first restaurant, Suage+, is located in the shopping district of Sapporo City. A three minute walk from Nanboku Subway Line Susukino Station. Store number two is located in the building next to the main store and the third store is located in Maruyama district in the outskirts.

The main features are the delicious soup, rice, and meat and vegetables fried without batter. Food deep fried without batter is called suage in Japanese, which reflects the store name.

The vegetables are chopped in big portions, also the store has their unique style of having some items skewered.

The store strongly focuses on using ingredients from Hokkaido. Excluding winter seasons with no harvest, all vegetables used are from Hokkaido. They also mainly use Hokkaido brand rice. To provide a delicious and nutritious balance, they blend white and brown rice milled at the store and a type of ancient red rice.

How to order:
1: The menu has different selection of curry depending on the ingredients such as chicken and pork. Pick one.
2: Pick one of the two soup flavors, suage soup and squid ink based black soup
*The squid ink based black soup is only available at the main store. The second store offers shrimp based red soup and the third store offers coconuts based white soup.
3: Choose the rice volume and spiciness. You can also order additional toppings.

This time we orders the standard Paripari Shiretoko Chicken and Vegetable Curry with suage soup and the Braised Lavender Pork Curry with black soup. We picked the average spice level and normal rice portion.

The base soup at Suage+ is made with onions, tomato paste, bacon, carrots, and skimmed milk powder. Then it is crushed in a mixer and stewed with some original spices, after it is cooked, they will let it sit overnight.

The suage soup uses soup that was set out overnight so you can taste and feel the texture of the crushed vegetables.

The base soup is strained to make the black soup smoother, then butter and squid ink is added. The smooth texture brings out the deep rich flavor.

Both soup are magnificent and it is hard to pick one! If you stop by with someone you might want to order different soups and share it.

Also, if you plan on coming here more than once, purchasing this sticker is worth it.

So delicious that you will want to come back over and over! A true Sapporo soup curry that really brings out the flavor of the ingredients.


Hours: 11:30 AM ~ 9:30 PM
Closed: December 31st ~ January 1st

Next up is the long established Sapporo soup curry shop Ajanta Indian Curry (Ajanta Indo Kari Ten), located in the residential district 10 minutes away from the Sapporo Streetcar Ishiyama Dori Station.

The reason why we recommend this place is because you can enjoy the original soup curry with spice and oil.

It is said that soup curry first made its debut as an herbal medicinal curry in the 1970s, after many creative adjustments were made to the taste and ingredients, it started to gain popularity. Ajanta has been pioneering the soup curry from its dawn. It is true to the original herbal medicinal curry style from 40 years ago.

If this is your first time here, try the standard menu Torikari.

The soup made with over 40 spices and herbs uses lots of oil, but is still smooth. The spiciness is just right and almost addicting!

A popular menu for repeating customers is the Lambkari

Lamkari is stewed in the Torikari soup, however the lamb meat juice fuses with the soup and produces a completely different taste from Torikai. Still spicy but milder than Torikari.

When you order you can make requests such as mild spiciness, less rice, more rice and others.

Ajanta Indian Curry continuing the original taste. A traditional taste that is worth the visit.

The final stop is Soup Curry yellow located in the shopping district. A one minute walk from Toho Subway Line Hosui-Susukino Station.

The shop has a unique atmosphere with a DJ booth and disco ball. They don’t hold music events - it’s just the manager’s hobby. Although the sound quality of the music is awesome!

The reason why we recommend this shop is because you can enjoy the night life feeling and the creamy yellow soup filled that is rich and full of flavors.

Pork bone, chicken bone and potherbs are cooked in the pressure cooker at 126 degrees and 3.2 atm. All the flavor is extracted from the bone and blended with some seafood broth. Then 13 different spices are added to create a unique yellow soup.

The rice is a 9-grain blend of white rice, barley, amaranth, turmeric and others. Squeezing some lemon on the rice and mixing it with the rich paitan soup (white soup), various textures and flavors expands in the mouth!

The menu offers various dishes such as braised pork, tofu and some motsunabe (beef or pork tripe hot pot) style curry. Here is one we strongly recommend!

A shrimp filled Hokkaido soup curry with soft shell shrimp, peeled shrimp and shrimp dumpling. A dish that offers various shrimp at once.

At Soup Curry yellow, you can pick what ingredients you want in the rich soup. What would you pick?

Just like ramen, depending on the person’s preference each Sapporo soup curry shop has their own flavor. It’s not about good or bad, but about the difference in flavor. The shops we recommended here are all based on the writer’s preference. With so many soup curry shops, try a few and find which one matches your preference.

*All prices in the article include tax

Written by : Nobuhiro Kawashima