Wagamama Hot Yasai Katsu Curry

Wagamama hot yasai katsu curry is priced at £15.10 (est.) and carries 1350 kcal, the biggest calorie count in the whole curry section, which surprises people until they look at the plate. Panko fried sweet potato, aubergine and butternut squash sit over sticky white rice under a spicy katsu sauce, with dressed salad and pickles alongside, and wagamama marks the whole thing vegan.

The vegetables are the reason the number runs high: sweet potato and squash bring their own sugars and soak up more frying oil than a chicken breast does, so the vegan plate outweighs the meat one. None of that is a criticism of how it eats. The crumb shatters, the squash goes fudgy inside, the aubergine collapses into cream, and the hot sauce cuts through all three better than the mild version manages.

Wagamama publishes no standalone price for the hot yasai, so the £15.10 (est.) figure here is our estimate anchored to the standard yasai katsu curry, marked est wherever it shows. The salt sits lower than the meat katsu plates, and the protein at around 22 g is respectable for a plant based plate, though the tofu firecracker beats it if protein is the goal.

Anyone weighing how much is the hot yasai katsu curry against the standard yasai will find them level on the board, with the usual London and airport uplift. As the hottest vegan route to wagamama's most famous dish format, it pairs naturally with the yasai vegetable gyoza to start, and the coconut reika ice cream afterwards is the cooldown the sauce quietly demands.