Have I hallucinated this Wagamama dish?

[Shedpod]

This has been haunting me since approximately 2010 and I’m hoping someone can help.

About eight years ago I bought the Wagamama cookbook. I only tried a few recipes from it but one of them I did a few times as it was so good. I don’t remember what it was called but it involved dipping bits of chicken in cornflour and egg and frying them, then putting them in a spicy broth. A thin, very spicy broth with some vegetables in I think. And noodles I think.

Anyway I lost the book when I moved house and I tried to look up the recipe online over the years but I couldn’t find the exact thing I was looking for.

Recently I was browsing through the books in a charity shop and I found - the Wagamama cookbook! Had a quick flick through, couldn’t see the recipe but thought ‘it’s definitely in there, I’ll buy it and go through it properly when I’m home’

I have scoured every single page in there twice, and the recipe’s not there. It’s definitely the same book I had. The closest thing is the Katsu curry but that’s got a sauce not a broth and it’s served with rice not noodles as the one I’m thinking of is, I think.

Have I gone mad?! It was definitely this book and I made the dish three or four times! Can anyone help please?!?

The cornflour & egg batter is how you make chinese lemon chicken so its a basic way of making crispy chicken to go in a sauce. Not sure specifically about the wagamamas menu though

Would it be something like the chicken ramen? That’s got chicken in a thin broth like soup with noodles altho the chicken is grilled.

Did you perhaps substitute another meat/fish for the chicken?Just a thought it may then not be exactly what you are looking for recipe wise.....

www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/food/recipes/a571896/chicken-katsu-curry/

Was it this?

Chicken katsu (kake) udon is what I have and it sounds similar. Often has fresh chili's in it.

@BadgerWithRice that’s making me think I definitely didn’t imagine it if that’s a standard way of doing it

@fuzzywuzzy it does sound more like it yes, but the chicken was definitely fried

Maybe I should just combine the two dishes! It’s just so weird that I remember it and now can’t find it

Chicken Kare Lomen?

@TheChickenOfTruth that sounds right actually!

I’m loving that I’m getting such helpful replies from people with amazingly relevant usernames

There is more than one Wagamama cookery book I think.

Looking on Amazon, there's a second book called Wagamama: Ways With Noodles. Maybe you had that one instead?

@Shedpod

To be honest, I've never had it at Wagamama. But I always eat it at Taro in London, and there's a "pan-Asian" restaurant near me which serves it. So I know it's a dish which exists in multiple places!

... And it's delicious!

I did this with what I thought was a Jamie Oliver recipe for mussel pasta. Spent years googling, rebought all the Jamie books I'd left behind when I split up with ex. A couple of months ago I was looking in a River Cafe book and bam! there it was. I'd had the bloody thing all along!!!