Coco ICHIBANYA, also known as Cocoichi, is a popular Japanese curry restaurant chain in Japan and around the world. The very first Cocoichi restaurant was founded in Aichi, where I was born and raised. I grew up with their curry, and it’s still one of the restaurants I always visit whenever I go back to Japan. These days, most Cocoichi restaurants look quite similar, but when I was little, there were still smaller locations—some tucked into strip malls. My neighborhood Cocoic