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  Image: Beef cheese curry + Oh-mori rice and curry ¥1,750 + ¥200(US$12 + US$1.20) Many tourists from other regions of Japan may regard soup curry as a popular local form of curry rice in Hokkaido as I mentioned in  this article  earlier. However, I would like to introduce a unique curry rice restaurant that is not classified as soup curry, located in Maruyama, which is famous as a posh district. Although some blogs state that it opened in 1993, it is unclear when it officially began operating. In the early 2000s, when I was a university student, I visited this curry restaurant countless times with my friends from secondary school, university, and my part-time job. After lunch, we also enjoyed chatting over cups of coffee there.  Since graduating from university, plenty of restaurants have appeared and disappeared. Nearly all the places I used to frequent have closed down.  Nonetheless, some of them have survived the global financial crisis in 2008, the...