is a Japanese food services company based in

Ichinomiya, Aichi is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The city is sometimes called Owarichinomiya to avoid confusion with other municipalities of the same name, including Ichinomiya (now part of the city of Toyokawa), Ichinomiya in Chiba Prefecture. , t ...

CoCo ICHIBANYA chain

ICHIBANYA Co., Ltd. owns the top curry rice restaurant chain in

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, Curry House CoCo ICHIBANYA or usually just CoCo ICHIBAN or CoCo ICHI. The chain owns both direct and franchise restaurants in a total of eleven countries: United States, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, and

and India. The chain used to have an outlet in Malaysia, however, due to lack of popularity and poor business, Ichibanya recently shut down the outlet. The Curry House chain is by far the company's largest business. * Japan: 1,304 branches 171 International Locations *China : 46 *Taiwan : 24 *Hong Kong : 9 *South Korea : 36 *Thailand : 27 *Philippines : 9 *United States (Hawaii, California) : 8 *Indonesia : 6 *Singapore : 4 *Malaysia : 1 (now permanently closed) *Vietnam : 2 *United Kingdom : 2 *India: 2

Halal and vegetarian

The company has a vegetarian menu consisting of plant-based curry and two outlets offering halal option in Akihabara and Shinjuku.

Pasta de Coco

The company also operates 25 restaurants in Japan under the name Pasta de Coco. It sells a pasta dish which is a kind of spaghetti with starchy sauce known as . This dish is one of the distinctive foods of the

Nagoya metropolitan area is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most pop ...

References

External links

CoCo ICHIBANYA's official web site

CoCo ICHIBANYA USA's official web site
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