The Mother of All Soup Curry: Magic Spice

Magic Spice, often rumored to have ignited the soup curry boom, has its own avid following with a group of people that identify as maji-supa-furiku (the Magic Spice Freaks). The Magic Spice exclusive signature dish, called “Hokkeido,” is loaded with juicy chicken, a mountain of veggies, and topped with a boiled egg. This restaurant’s silky smooth soup is the result of a meticulous blend of thirty spices, inspired in part by the Balinese dish soto sayam. Magic Spice rates the spiciness of its dishes on a seven-level scale, starting from “Spiritual Awakening” and going all the way to “Ethereal Void.” Newcomers should try the “Nirvana” level of spice to gauge how much they can tolerate.