I have a habit I can't seem to shake. When I eat, I take mental notes. What went into this. How they cooked it. Whether I could manage something close at home.
So I sat down at the September soft launch expecting to do exactly that. Spoon in hand, brain ready.
Then, a few minutes in, I noticed the notes had stopped.
The rice was going down. The chicken too. And I kept returning to the soup, without deciding to. That was the moment Soup Curry by Ki-setsu quietly won me over. It sits on Fortune Centre Level 4, and it opens properly on 8 October.
It Makes More Sense After Five Minutes Than After Five Sentences
At first, the bowl confused me a little.
The curry looked far thinner than the Japanese curry most of us know. Rice came separately. On the table, it read more like soup with a few good things beside it than curry rice.
But that impression faded fast. A spoon of soup, then rice, then a piece of chicken, then back to the soup. Some sequence like that. After several rounds, the neat distinctions I'd been making stopped mattering.
Here's the thing. It looks lighter than the curry I associate with a filling lunch. It does not eat that way. A full chicken thigh sits in there, and by the end I was properly full. If you've never had Hokkaido curry, that's the surprise waiting for you.
The Detail I Only Thought About Afterwards
It was later, walking out, that I learned the broth starts with chicken bones boiled for more than six hours, before Chef Masa builds his own spice blend on top.
I won't pretend I tasted "six hours." Nobody can.
But it explained something I'd already felt. There was a savoury foundation under the spice, a warmth and aroma that kept pulling me back even though the soup itself stayed light. Now I knew why.
The One Thing I Would Tell a Curry Rice Lover
Let me be honest with you.
If you're craving thick, sweet Japanese curry sauce clinging to your rice, that dense comfort we all know, this isn't that. It won't scratch the same itch.
I love both, for what it's worth. But the satisfaction here builds slowly, through spoonfuls and rice and chicken, not through heavy sauce doing the work for you. Soup curry won't answer every curry craving. It doesn't need to.
Why Fortune Centre Makes Sense for This
Fortune Centre already draws people looking past the usual mall names. If you've spent time thinking about what to eat in Fortune Centre, this is one more reason to climb to Level 4.
Would I come back once it opens? Yes. Not because it's new, or from Hokkaido, or takes six hours.
Just because I finished the bowl more easily than I expected, and I've been thinking about the soup since.
