Nakamuraya Shinjuku Curry Arare Rice Cracker

The curry at Nakamuraya in Shinjuku is not ordinary Japanese curry.

In 1927, Indian independence activist Rash Behari Bose — who had taken refuge with the Nakamuraya founder’s family after fleeing British authorities — proposed introducing authentic Indian curry to the restaurant’s newly opening café.

The curry he passed on was built on whole spices, bone-in chicken, and a recipe that had nothing to do with the flour-thickened British-style curry then spreading across Japan.

It became Nakamuraya’s defining dish, and the spice blend has been passed down from that original recipe ever since.

The Shinjuku Curry Arare translates that same spice heritage into a rice cracker format.

Light, round arare — the small, puffed rice crackers of Japanese traditional confectionery, baked until airy and crisp — are seasoned with Nakamuraya’s house curry spice blend: the same aromatic, complex combination of over twenty spices that has distinguished the restaurant’s curry from every imitation for nearly a century.

The result is a snack that is both distinctly Japanese in form and distinctly Nakamuraya in flavor — fragrant, mildly spicy, and impossible to associate with generic curry seasoning.

Each piece is light and immediately crisp, with the spice coating distributed evenly across the surface.

The flavor builds gently as you eat through the bag, and the curry aroma opens fully the moment the individual pouch is unsealed.

About this item
Item Name : Shinjuku Curry Arare
Brand : Nakamuraya
Item Form : Rice Cracker
Number of Items : 80g, 120g (Pack of 1)