is japaense food bland? everything just tastes of mirin

is <x> food bland? everything just tastes of <something that x generally use>

>>8564897
give an example of another cuisine that has one flavour that is as ubiquitous as mirin is in japanese food

>>8564889
Don't be silly, of course it's not all bland, just like most world cuisines are not bland across the board.
Do you need examples?

>>8564981

Tomato in Italian
Cumin in Tex-Mex
Salt in midwestern USA
"Flower pepper" and doubanjiang in Sichuan Chinese
Sesame oil in Korean

Do you want me to continue?

>>8564991
>Tomato in Italian
>Cumin in Tex-Mex
>Salt in midwestern USA
>"Flower pepper" and doubanjiang in Sichuan Chinese
>Sesame oil in Korean
maybe in your backwater flyover chain restaurants

>>8564991
Dirty underwear in Indian
Mold in Mexican

>>8564991
ill give you sichuan but the others are wrong

>>8564997

I could say the same thing about OP's insistence that everything Japanese tastes of Mirin.

>>8564991
Pepper, thyme and rosemary in England
Tarragon in France
Fish sauce in Thailand
Rotting fish in Sweden
Paprika in Spain

>>8565013
Ketchup in American
Kraft dinner in Canadian
Poverty in Ireland

>>8565013
>Pepper, thyme and rosemary in England
>Tarragon in France
>Fish sauce in Thailand
>Rotting fish in Sweden
>Paprika in Spain
flyover detected

>>8564889
>is japaense food bland?
yes, it is very bland
It's my least favorite asian food for that reason. I just want to shower food with herbs, just something more than green onions sometimes

> everything just tastes of mirin
most dishes don't include mirin. Are you sure you know what mirin tastes like? Are you confusing this with miso or soy? Now if we were talking thai food, I'd say that some cooks have a heavy hand with fish sauce in a good deal of dishes, and really could add it to any dish. But with japanese food, running the gamut from composed salads, formed little dumplings, rice balls, soups, stir fries, and a gazillion other things, I'm absolutely sure mirin isn't in even 25% of them. Have you had much Japanese food really? I don't think it's even in a typical sushi restaurant menu choices whatsoever, maybe if you got some negamaki, it'd be in the marinade, but nothing more.

>>8565013
>>8564991
None of these are fucking true except Sichuan Chinese and that's because it's a specific regional cuisine.

Stop posting, fag.

I dunno, most of the Japanese food I've had is very reliant on the natural taste of the foods, so sometimes that can be pretty bland to people used to heavy seasoning? Lots of raw cabbage eaten by average people there.

>>8564986
Give me 5 Japanese dishes that are not bland as fuck

>>8565166
You responded to two persons and England definitely is
t. Englander

>>8564889
I would not call Japanese food bland. It does lean toward subtle. The only flavor they tend to lean on in a less than restrained way is salt.

>>8565343
Yeah, can't wait to eat my tikka masala with 'pper, 'mary 'n thyme.

There exists food outside your mother's sunday roasts, you stupid fag.

>>8564981
mexican food is just the same 5 ingredients rearranged 3000 different ways

>>8565343
CANT HAE MY FISH AND CHIPS WITHOUT PEPPER ROSEMARY AND THYME

no, it's sugoi you fakkin' gaijin

commit sudoku

>>8565796
>Not eating roast potatoes cooked in goose fat with rosemary and thyme
Fish and chips is not the English national dish. The Sunday Roast is.

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what kind of faggot doesn't like mirin?

>>8565821
>English national dish
no its the chicken tikka masala

>>8565808
whats that

>>8565839

Who is this girl?

>>8566436
>girl

>>8564889
Yeah, that's what happens when you have few exports and centuries of restricted trade with countries that cook better than you

>>8566450
literally the most feminine penis in the business though

>>8565158
this post has the most condescending and sure tone yet its wrong

I can really only imagine what kind of fucking mouthbreather wrote this

mirin is in everything along with sake and soy sauce maybe even some sugar

of course it wouldn't be in a "typical sushi restaurant menu" because the menu wouldn't be focused washoku in general only sushi but if you look at other washoku mirin is probably in 75% of the dishes

>>8566969
And precisely how many jap recipes have you googled? When I do, it's only the few dishes with marinades. Everything else, nah.

>>8567027
fuck off retard I live in Japan it's in everything most japanese dishes are 煮物 nimono( lit meaning boiled things) shit simmered in dashi mirin sake soy sugar, it's in sukiyaki, kinpira gobo, pork shogayaki, kabocha soboro, tsukune, hell it's even in curry udon it's in more things than it's not, if the recipes you're looking at are in English they're probably written for Americans which for some mirin is tough to find

>>8566890
>feminine
>penis
no.

>>8567052
>buttblasted weeaboo detected

>>8567063
better call them a weeaboo to show I don't care

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>>8564889
>>8565166
>>8565357
>>8566969
>>8567052
>'Hey guis, x - am I rite? XD'
>'Well, no, X isn't always the case
>'NO FUCK YOU YOU STUPID FAGS YOU DONT KNOW SHIT! X IS ALWAYS TRUE FUCK YOURE SUCH FUCKING FAGS KYS HERES SOME SHIT I GOOGLED TO PROVE MY POINT
>/ck/

>>8567109
he said he lives in japan

>>8567027
OP here i went to japan

>>8565036
>Poverty in Ireland
You spelled potato wrong

>>8564889
Short answer? Yeah. Basically it's the epitome of "here's something salty and/or fishy with a starch" with few exceptions of course. That said I still enjoy it because you have to really taste each individual flavour and requires a more subtle nuance and attention to detail. I couldn't imagine eating it daily because I think it'd get routine. Funnily enough I think they're at their best for their desserts and their weeaboo bullshit junk food.

>>8567052
So what was the point of this thread of you already knew the answer?

Just kidding I know the answer for this. Because you wanted to shitpost.

Why does blandness carry such a negative connotation? Is it wrong to enjoy the natural flavors of the ingredients in combination with each other?

Do you always eat heavily spiced foods with overwhelming flavors? From the Japanese's perspective, Indian food would be too overpowering. But no one seems to use 'overpowering' as a negative.

>>8568171
>wah wah stop discussing things on the forum

>>8565013
>Tarragon
I'm French and this is bullshit. Most people eat tarragon about twice a year.
I'd pick garlic instead ? Or onions ?

>>8568171
I didn't make the thread bozo

>>8564889
>>>8565013
>>Tarragon
>I'm French and this is bullshit. Most people eat tarragon about twice a year.
>I'd pick garlic instead ? Or onions ?
>>8568618
Whatever you say pierre

>>8564897
>>8564981
I agree. Been to japan. Same fucking flavor all over the country. It really is utter trash tier food.