Wagamama Katsu Curry Sauce

Wagamama katsu curry sauce costs £1.20 and carries 227 kcal, the pot of the chain's most famous flavour sold on its own: the aromatic coconut and turmeric curry that made the katsu plate a national habit, vegan marked and priced at the extras list's single figure.

The pot exists for three constituencies: the katsu plate owners whose sauce ran out before their rice, the chip dippers who discovered what this sauce does to fried potato, and the home tables that carry a pot away to pour over whatever the evening holds. All three are correct, the second most of all.

The numbers deserve their glance: 227 kcal makes this a food in its own right rather than a condiment, the coconut carrying real fat, though the sugar stays modest at 4 g, the lowest of the big sauce pots. The how much question lands at £1.20 with the rest of the list.

Against its own hot sibling one line down, this is the original setting: mild, sweet spiced, turmeric golden, the flavour the kids menu borrows and the nation knows. The vegan marking covers the pot outright, which quietly means the famous sauce belongs to every diet at the table.

Order it wherever the plate's own sauce needs backup, over the katsu udon for a double pour, or beside plain rice as the fastest comfort food the menu can assemble. The chips at home remain its secret best work.