A note on the words: kare-pan, curry bread, is a bread roll filled with Japanese curry, usually oval and deep-fried; taiyaki is the fish-shaped cake filled with sweet bean paste; and Kanazawa curry is the dark, thick, almost gravy-like curry of Ishikawa Prefecture. Prices are as of this writing (August 2026).
CAPTAIN EDGER SOFT ICE CREAM on Tabelog (English) — opening hours, payment details and the Japanese address are kept up to date there, not here.
I want to eat something good today as well. This is Hangover Meshi.
A short, compact piece this time. On a whim I went to Kasai Rinkai Park. There is a Ferris wheel there, and I realised I had never once been on it in my life, nor been inside the aquarium either. Going along, I found it fairly busy. Popular, evidently. I rode the wheel, and then, walking about the grounds, which are quite large, I came upon this place: “CAPTAIN EDGER SOFT ICE CREAM”.
“Well, it is hot, perhaps some ice cream”, I thought, and went over.
And there was a thing called “the Ultimate Curry Bread”. For a place calling itself THE ice cream stand, it also does fried chicken and yakisoba and chips and taiyaki. An impressive spread.
The Ultimate Curry Bread, 600 yen
Having seen that, there is nothing for it but the curry bread.
While everybody else bought ice cream and shaved ice, I bought a curry bread.
The first thing you notice on taking it is that the shape is off the standard scale. It is long. About 30 cm? The concept of the ordinary oval curry bread goes out of the window. The form is clearly longer than an iPhone, and while it is easy to hold in one hand, it is long. Very hard to photograph.
The instant you bite in, the coating crunches and the scent of spice comes rolling up from inside. Oh, that is good.
The inside is packed solid with roux: a thick, rich, viscous curry. The sweetness of the onion and the layers of spice run evenly from one end of the stick to the other, so that every mouthful delivers the same satisfaction. Quietly impressive.
I had forgotten to mention that this is not deep-fried. It must be baked. The surface is baked to a fragrant crispness, and biting in brings up the wheatiness of the dough. There is a good quantity of it, and it satisfies.
Ice cream is all very well. But this odd curry bread is good too.
— or so I was thinking, while eating it.
Then I looked it up at home. This “Ultimate Curry Bread” is not, in fact, original to this shop.
It is apparently a curry bread famous in Kanazawa — a stick-shaped curry bread that started there, a local speciality run by an Ishikawa company called World Coffee Shokai. Why on earth is it on the seafront at Kasai? Now that I think of it, the curry inside did rather taste of Kanazawa curry.
I do not know why it is in Kasai, but being able to eat a Kanazawa speciality here is rare. If you come to Kasai Rinkai Park, do drop in.
CAPTAIN EDGER SOFT ICE CREAM (soft-serve ice cream / Kasai-Rinkai-Koen Station)
Tabelog lunch rating ★★★☆☆ 3.0
I ate here and paid for it myself. Nothing on this site is a comped meal.
One more for the road?
