What’s a Japanese curry shop to do in order to stand out amid a sea of competitors? Newly noted Tokyo eatery Curry Shop Shimizu decided to enlist a chef willing to try flavors that no other shop would dare entertain. In the case of Chef Shimizu, it’s a feces-flavored dish that’s making headlines.
That’s right: Curry Shop Shimizu is riding a very smelly wave of publicity these days. They’re believed to be the first restaurant of its or any other kind in the whole wide world to have willingly put a dish flavored like poop on their menu. The special curry doesn’t actually have feces in it–it’s a mix of “natural ingredients like green tea, bitter gourd[,] and cocoa powder,” and, when you put those things together in the right combination, the result both looks and smells like poop.
Fittingly, the unko curry dish comes in a toilet-shaped dish.
According to UPI, Ken Shimizu came up with the idea after a spell as an adult film actor, during which time several of his roles required him to consume human feces. He drafted and re-drafted recipes for three years before settling on the current concoction, which has become a viral sensation even as it struggles to find a real-life audience. Of 400 young adults polled about the dish, 75 percent said they would “never set foot inside the restaurant;” 10.5 percent said they “were not totally turned off by the idea,” but were likely to never visit.
Only 5.7 percent–a mere 22.8 people–said that they were excited, for whatever reason, to go.
Poop.
(Photo credits: Poo curry via Curry Shop Shimizu)
