Japanese food

>>9026204
I think some weebs enjoy japanese food for the sake of it being japanese, but as long as they're enjoying i dont see whats wrong

>>9026204
Overrated

Muh sushi
Muh ramen
Muh bento

>>9026204
im feeling a decent to light 7
if you've given japanese food a try, what did you think?
did you love it?
hate it?
why?

>>9026213
Shut up melon

>>9026204
I remember having a rice dish with pork once in an eatery in Sydney. I'm sure it wasn't anything like tonkatsu (or any -katsu for that matter), but it tasted pretty gud.

I really really wanna try natto and takoyaki. I imagine takoyaki being a bit similar to calamari.

>>9026204
they have some good seafood, and because the restaurants are a little more expensive around where I live generally the food is prepared better / higher quality base.

The sushi places funny enough have way better fried seafood than most American seafood restaurants nearby.

Definitely overrated. Even the Japanese admit that. Ask any Japanese person what they ate for lunch and 9 times out of 10 the answer is curry or a sandwich.

>>9026211
>muh I'm only familiar with the super mainstream weeb food

>>9026204
everythign except a few dishes are made of:
sake
mirin
dashi
soy sauce

>>9026278
That might be because those people are city-dwellers anon. I can't imagine a Japanese worker in the city sitting at home relaxing and have a nice warm meal of rice, meat, vegetables and soup at the middle of the day.

Might be the case for countrysides and areas like Hokkaido, but idk. And even so, if you're really creative with the ingredients, you're unlikely to get bored of food where you are. So the Japs are either short of food variety or just lazy asses.

>>9026278
That's bullshit, every single Japanese person I have every asked has said they love Japanese food and prefer it to any other type of cooking.

>>9026292
-->>>9026290

>>9026278
>Ask any Japanese person what they ate for lunch and 9 times out of 10 the answer is curry or a sandwich.
Reverse that. Most people have rice based dishes with vegetables, bean sprouts, and maybe a little bit of sauced meat. If they're in a rush they'll probably grab onigiri or a microwaved noodle cup from a 7/11.

The meme that japs eat nothing but curry and sushi is retarded and so are you.

>>9026278
That's bullshit though, they literally take lunchboxes with japanese foods like rice, sushi, pickled local vegetables and meats everywhere they go, be it school, university or work.

>>9026290
Except for soy sauce, I have trouble getting those things in my regular grocery store. Even then, I just get my soy sauce from Amazon, you know, the Kikkoman that's actually from Japan. The American stuff isn't bad either, but the Japanese stuff is my favorite for regular light soy sauce. I get Chinese stuff for the dark, thick kind.

For all that other shit you mentioned, I have to go downtown to an Asian market. None of that stuff like Sake,Mirin, Dashi (or kombu+katsuobushi for that matter) is here in Harlem, and forget ordering that shit online.

>>9026306
I'd figure that Japanese people would miss their soups/noodles/sauces the most when abroad, because they're hard to find outside of Japan, unlike sushi.

>>9026336
who the fuck asked about this?

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>>9026371
No one. Just rambling about Japanese food a little frustrated about how hard the ingredients can be to track down in the States.

>>9026336
Oh, they generally do. At least that's what all the exchange students comlpained about when I was in college.
If they're japs not in japland then yeah they probably had a sandwich, but if you meant japs in japland then they almost invariably eat more traditional foods.

Most convenience sandwiches are fucking egg salad there anyways, I lived off them for weeks because I couldnt figure out how to order anything else.

>>9026376
where do you live?

>>9026387
Harlem, Manhattan.

I know that I can get anything I want downtown, but I have to take a subway ride and schlepp it home in an Ikea bag which takes ages for some basic grocery shit. There's no decent Asian markets Uptown.

>>9026377
have to stop being so shy

>>9026389
harlem is shit, mate. I live in new york as well

>>9026393
I like Harlem a lot, it's really convenient for me. It's just that the grocery scene isn't all there yet.

>>9026396
you a white boy?

>>9026390
Only so much communication you can do through pointing and grunts.
It was easier to just identify a sandwich in the 7/11 than try to figure out what anything on a menu was.
Not a great idea to wander around alone without speaking the language

>>9026403
Yeah. I live north of 125th though, so I'm pretty much the only white guy I know up here. Used to live in East Harlem on 116th and 3rd, and also near the park on Clayton Powell, but I like it up here right now. Got a good view over Lenox Ave. Why ask? You from BK or something?

>>9026408
Most restaurants have english menus for people like you.

You shouldn't really have a problem at all.

>>9026408
i disagree i travel all the time for work. to countires sometimes i don't speak language and i'm able to order food. amazing what a little bit of studying and such can do.

>>9026412
i live near flatiron building

>>9026419
That's a cool neighborhood, my wife worked on 21st St. a while ago. I can understand why you wouldn't be into Uptown though. It's got a different vibe fore sure, almost a different borough.

Ching chang chin chang chong

Nice and hot

>>9026416
Not when you're lost in the depths of a tokyo district you can't even remember the name of because you got off the train at the wrong place.

>>9026417
I speak 0 japanese, so

>>9026437
Wok, nice and hot

>>9026204
>What are your favorite Japanese dishes

White rice with soy sauce

>t. poorfag

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Is "tempura sushi" also eaten in Japan, or is this just a westernised blasphemy of the original food?

>>9026510
Blasphemy.

Even the most cheapest and trashiest of Sushi places that serve burger sushi, fried chicken sushi, french fry sushi don't have anything like Tempura sushi on their menus.

>>9026510

It's certainly a westernized invention, but a lot of the western-style rolls are starting to show up in Japan as sort of a "reverse import". I'm sure you could get it somewhere in Japan but it would be an exotic oddity.

>>9026306

Superheroes eat nothing but curry rice. Source: Samurai Flamwenco

ALright fagmanias I need help with the soy
Im thinking melted brown sugar, chili seeds and then add that sauce but I feel like I should add one or two more things. Gib tips pls

>>9026533
why the fuck would you add chilli to a soy sauce

>>9027568
Gives it heat. This is not uncommon for dipping sauces.

>>9026533
Splash of vinegar and try chopped bird's eye chilies next time

>>9026533
sauce for what, what are you dipping into it?

>>9026204
Pretty easy to cook, can taste decent, relatively healthy. All in all not terrible, overrated by some and severely underrated by others (usually by people obsessed with making sure everyone around them knows that they're not a weeaboo). I like sukiyaki, inarizushi, donburi, katsudon, etc. Basically everything is decent, but there's nothing I would say that stands out as truly amazing.

>>9026204
Overrated by weebs, underrated by rednecks. Overall a very nice cuisine with a variety of dishes that range from kind of shitty to very good. Sushi is excellent, ramen is comfy as fuck, tempura is indulgent.

Overrated.
Sushi is ok, but everything is really meh.

Japanase curry, okonomiyaki, ramen and tayaki are pretty tasty, if you're not counting all the stuff made from fish.

Also, whale sashimi is godly delicious.

>>9026284
>mainstream isn't able to be representative of a cuisine
Except it is.

I just want some nice yakitori and a beer to drink.

Why the fuck isn't there a bar in America where I can just get some fried gizzards and chicken thighs?
Why is this shit only in Japan?

I mean fuck. I don't even give a shit about sushi, but I miss just grabbing a few sticks on the street in Tokyo.

Unagi, eel is godlike!

>>9026446
>speaks no japanese
>goes to japan
>bitches about the food bc can't fucking read

go home you illiterate fuck

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That seafood pancake thing you can get over there (pic related) is too good for words at some places.

>>9026204
Just a little overrated. A lot of it is pretty good. Tempura is amazing, but it's kind of hard to mess up fried stuff. Takoyaki is also great.

>>9028290
Okonomiyaki?

Part of what's so retarded about this thread generally is that the regional variety when it comes to food is so wide, and none of these people really have enough experience to comment on anything other than the shit that's designed for western export. Some regional okonomiyaki get really weird and interesting. My favorites are just the Osaka style and the one with takuan in it.

Zaru soba is probably my favorite though. I eat a ton of that during the summer.

Drastically overrated.

Even award winning ramen in Japan can't compete with a bowl of westernised Pho from a corner shop in Australia.

Vietnamese is the best Asian food.

>>9028464
Maybe it's just me, but I always found pho bland compared to ramen even after I add all their condiments. Also I like the texture of the true ramen noodle infinitely better than the pho rice noodle.

>>9028509
This.
Pho is the real meme food.
>wow i sure do love rubbery, gross noodles with fucking raw ingredients in it
>clearly this recipe has a complex history beyond "illiterate peasants making cheap food"

any food that doesn't use lots of garlic is dumpster tier

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>>9028023
I guess America can only be judged on burgers and Italy on pizzas then, you fuck

>>9029045
Neither of those are american. America can only be judged as lacking any culinary culture and stealing from everyone else.

>>9029061
Tell me your favorite cuisine and I will personally shit on it for you so you can shut up.

>>9026204
I lived with a host family for a year. Literally best food in my life. I gained like 20 lbs during my stay

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>>9026204
I really like it, but if I were living in Japan I'd probably get sick of it pretty quickly.

>>9026241
Takoyaki is just a ball of batter with a little chunk of octopus in it, and the whole thing is probably slathered in sauces (tasty sauces, but still). You really don't get much octopus in any one takoyaki, if that's what you're hoping for.

As for natto, I don't mind it, but I wouldn't say the flavor is all that great. The texture is that of beans covered in phlegm, and I find that the flavor tastes kind of bitter, a bit like a weak cup of coffee. If it comes with dashi, hot mustard, or green onion, mixing those in can bump the taste from "eh" to "alright."

>>9026204
It depends where you are and what you get. In the South, "Japanese" almost ALWAYS meant a Benihana type of establishment (steak, chicken, or shrimp served off a teppanyaki grill with rice and vegetables and "white sauce" for dipping - started by a cup of clear soup and a small salad with ginger dressing). Sushi was pretty much ALWAYS rolls of some sort - a novelty meme food. Rare to see nigiri or sashimi.

Japanese to me is ramen, udon, miso soup, tempura (even though it is originally Portuguese), sukiyaki, sashimi, nigiri, yakisoba... Sukiyaki is absolutely one of my favorites.

>>9026213
I love what I have tried. I can't bring myself to try takoyaki though.

>>9026204
Tempura is great. Also grilled mackerel. I've been doing a lot of sashimi lately because keto. Pretty much all of their stuff is good.

>>9029294
It's just a bit of octopus covered in batter, a lot of savory sauce, maybe mayo, and a shit ton of bonito flakes with some seaweed. If you don't like octopus it's not like you're really even going to taste it.

>>9026437
You are mocking Chinese - different part of Asia >>9026446

>>9028059
Oh yeah, put me down for yakitori too. Yet to try okonomiyaki.

>>9028509
Same here on all points.

>>9029289
I was in a ramen shop once and sat next to someone eating takoyaki. The smell was overwhelming of fishiness.

>>9026204
The Japanese trump the French in elegant simplicity and technique involved. The cultural differences alone put higher esteem to Japanese cuisine than French.

For some reason jp food is just so comfy to me. Nothing beats my favorite sushi restaurant with a hot bowl of udon bringing me sake. Or just enjoying a shit ton of takoyaki and fried foods before my sushi comes out, laughing it up with friends.

I will say that Jp food is also just convenient to make. Jp curry, tempura udon and anything where I just throw food on top of rice has saved my wallet significantly

I do think it's overrated in that 90% of restaurants charge extra for sushi because they just can. But you can find great places that don't over charge and are authentic as fuck.

Ramen, personally, I don't think is overrated at all.

>>9029325
Okonomiyaki is some good shit.

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>>9028516
Not that anon, but as a Vietnamese I'll tell you a bit about it.

Yes, Pho is bland, with and without all the condiments that we have added. I don't deny that because it's fact. And the dish itself is not that old either. In fact, you could say Pho owes its origin to Pot-au-feu, an original French dish that was brought over to Vietnam during the colonial period. Maybe if Pho is bland, then Pot-au-feu might also be bland.

But what I do know is that both of the dishes are well-known in their respective countries and are eaten by everyone, from the rich to the poor. Pho is literally just a new incarnation of the dish they gave us.

However, I personally like Pho very much because of its bland taste. It's all preferences. As for the "illiterate peasants making cheap food" notion, its true. Aside from somewhat raw ingredients (but safe to eat), Pho makes uses of cuts of meats that are normally not used in the West. Hell, there's even a hotpot dish that is not that different compared to Pho, and uses everything from tails to feets!

So really, you can all the dish a meme. If a foreigner ever says the best Vietnamese dish or all the Vietnamese have got to offer is Pho, or if they say Pho/Viet cuisine sucks, I'll say they have not explored enough to be sure. And while Pho doesn't have its own history, it certainly carries on the legacy of "making use of what you have".

Plus I kinda like the so called rubbery, gross noodle texture of the noodles, as you put it.

>>9026210
I used to think this too, now chicken katsu is my favorite food.

Those slant eyed fucks really know what they're doing when they're willing to actually cook their food and not slap it raw over rice and call it food.

>>9026297
why do they steal foreign food so often then? tempura is portuguese tonkatsu is schnitzel and german and curry they got from the english

what even is "japanese food"?

>>9026513
oh a westernized version of a food that originally came from europe mhh tempura is portuguese you retarded weeb bitch

>>9030123
italians "stole" pasta from the chinks
jews "stole" bagels from the uighurs
curry is not english, what the fuck

stop trying so hard to prove you're not a weeb, weeb. you're like a republican senator who wants to make sure everyone knows he doesn't find little boys sexually attractive.

>>9029061
>stealing from everyone else
japan is up there too bro dont worry weebs dont like to hear it tho

>>9030127
>curry is not english
i never said that retarded weeb bitch i said they got it from the english

shows that you know nothing and italians atleast changed their fucking noodles the japanese just straight up copied tempura and tonkatsu

>>9030127
No one said curry was English, retard.
Work on your reading comprehension

>>9029673
Pls don't put the west with america, From Icelanders, Spaniards to Germans we use animals heads, brains, stomachs, livers,blood... Specially regional cuisines. And Peasant food is the best food, I dunno why anyone would be ashamed to eat it.

>>9030133
>i never said that retarded weeb bitch i said they got it from the english
you should try getting language from the English; whatever you're trying to speak isn't

>>9030139
>>9030134
he understood it quite well
take his advice you weeb motherfucker

>>9030141
>he
samefagging will not make your point any more valid, Senator Hastert

I think Japanese food is a pretty top tier cuisine. They've got hypersimplified recipes where they make the ingredients shine and also westernized stuff that's really savory.
I think the overrating might come from the perfection reputation Japanese have, but I can't say I don't enjoy properly arranged food even from cheap restaurants.

>>9026204
Japanese have an excellent sense of aesthetics and decorum. However, I don't like much else about their culture, including their food.

>>9030148
>overrated becausw of perfection stereotype
or maybe its because of disgusting weebs making threads on "japanese cuisine" everyday

>>9028464
Aussie here as well. There's a Vietnamese neighbourhood near me and I've eaten enough pho to be sick of it, pretty good though.

Chinese>Viet=Japanese>>>>>Korean

>>9030123
ramen noodles are also from china. I think "real" Japanese food tends to be the fresh seafood dishes.

I personally love Japanese food. Some of my favorite dishes are Okonomiyaki, Katsudon, Miso Ramen, and udon with a dash of shichimi togarashi

>>9030232
Theres a noodle dish in China where Ramen may have come from, but any of the modern ramens (Tonkotsu, Shoyu, Miso, Shio) have no counterpart in China.

>>9030167
get a grip, self-hating weeb. everyone likes japanese food, it was popular before anime

>>9026210
Wow a real person posting

Tempura>everything else
Might be because I'm from the American south though

>>9026210
Yeah this, I was guilty of this in high school. Used to get up at like 5 AM to watch the anime movies on SciFi channel like Iria and Venus Wars. There was a Chinese/Japanese place down the street that sold suishi and tempuras. I'd get that a lot. It was a new experience so it was pretty cool. I don't eat that food anymore and quit watching anime 15 years ago almost now but it was fun while it lasted.

>>9030774
ok

>>9026204
I'm convinced only weebs like it.

Americanized Chinese food is literally the only palatable Asian food on the planet.

>>9032345
japanese food is the same shit over and over: soy sauce, sake, mirin, and dashi

>>9032356
Same with Mexican food: tortilla, beans, rice, cheese, and meat seasoned with cumin powder.

>>9030998
You're not wrong senpai. Some buckwheat noodles w/ a real crunchy tempura is the GOAT

>>9032388
no

>>9026204
Tempura anything, bento, teriyaki anything, edamame, are overrated,

Regular nigiri and makimono sushi are wildly overrated and oversaturated to the point where you can buy them at 7-11. Temaki and Gunkanmaki are still good. Futomaki is borderline, but I don't see it all that often so it's probably ok.

Ramen is in a weird place. Soba and udon are underrated noodles.

>>9032345
> Americanized Chinese food is literally the only palatable Asian food on the planet.
Flyover detected.

>>9026204
Traditional japanese food is pretty bland owing to japan having very limited spices.

>>9033504
I kind of agree, that's why westernized versions are better.

>>9033517
>Lives in the west with a western palate
>Prefers a westernized dish
Really works your noggin

>>9033517
>I am physically unable to enjoy food unless it has avocado, scriracha and mayo all over it

>>9033536
>Well, the japs are increasingly adopting a westernized diet.
Tells you something about nip food.

>>9033541
>Implying the nips don't go mad for avocado, sirracha and mayo.
You're animu isn't a good representation of nip lifestyles, weeb.

>>9026204
Overrated but some dishes are amazing. I love soba.

>>9033667
This what Americans think Japanese cuisine is.
Roundeyes.

>>9026241
>>9029289

I took my ex to a sushi place once and she loved the takoyaki so much she said it in her sleep

>>9033550
Avocados are the current meme food here. Mayo has always been really popular.

>>9033550
>the nips do it, therefore it's good
I bet childlike portions of poorly cooked italian food is the epitome of haute cuisine for you then?

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>>9026204
Is Ramen actually good? or is it an epic meme

>>9026204
do they have good sandwiches? is my concern

like i make myself a hoagie out of some fried chicken cutlet, no yolk noodles, and maybe a spoonful of tomato sauce

a lot of food there seems to be finger food and designed around chopsticks. i just love making sandwiches. steak sandwiches. cheesesteaks. pork cutlet sandwiches. ham sandwiches. spaghetti sandwiches. taco meat sandwiches

>>9033907
The egg salad sandwiches from the convenience stores are god tier

>>9033894
Ramen is amazing
I've also never had Ramen in the US that I consider to be amazing.

>>9033955
then you must not have been to NYC or LA

>>9033955
>I've also never had Ramen in the US that I consider to be amazing.

I've only had amazing baked beans while camping. Like OMG, BEST BEANS IN MY LIFE!

I've never had amazing baked beans sitting at home alone in my basement.

I wonder why that is?

>>9026278
tbf, most of the world eats curry or a sandwich for lunch.....what we eat for a quick bite betwen work or errands is hardly representative of anything....

>>9026290
so? i feel like for any cuisine you can concoct a list like that, of the pantry staples that flavour everything

>>9034047
>>9033955
Naruto Ramen in Park Slope has, honest to god, given me the best meal i have ever had.

>>9030123
yes, but katsu doesnt taste quite like schnitzle, jappanese curry is pretty much its own thing taste wise, and while tempura was derived from portugese fare its taste and execution are pretty jappanese....every culture brows dishes and warps them to suit its sensibilities

>>9030232
ramen is a coruption of la mien...the dish tho is pretty much a japanese invention(likely the product of japanese born chinese from yokohama or some where like it)....japanese food has whole category of chinese food that only exsists in japan and are pretty unrecogizable in china

>>9033504
im not sure its just limited land, trade is posible....it also comes down to a food atitude similar to cantonese or shanghainese aproaches...a preference for subtlety and natural flavors balanced with soy and sweet flavours

>>9033894
ramen in good, but in america its a trend which misses the point

in japan ramen is a convinience food, in a good way...its cheap, plentiful, and flling.

in america tho its a comparativley expensive novelty, becuase we dont have a food economy built to allow cheap ramen

it would be like ordering a 20 dollar hamburger in africa, not a fancy burger mind you, just a reasonoble aproximation of a hamburger.....its out of place and not worth it

>>9030127
>epublican senator who wants to make sure everyone knows he doesn't find little boys sexually attractive.
No, no, that was Barney Frank.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-one-thing-no-one-is-mentioning-in-their-barney-frank-tributes-the-prostitutes-2011-11

(Funny how even the articles that mention the prostitution ring have scrubbed the fact that a lot of them were under-legal-age teenagers.)

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>>9026204
I grew up eating it, still one of my favorite cuisines. My parents raised me on outlandish foods, so I have a pretty wide pallette now, but sushi is delectable in its own way. A surge of nostalgia hits me when I eat it and the flavor tastes of childhood, home. I guess its a little more romantic for me than most. Even so, its a little ironic since my other favorite food is burgers, the staple of philistine american tastes.

>>9033497
I will not let this picture go unnoticed, anon. Ramen Jiro is the highest tier of ramen one can get.

>>9026204
I'm not a huge fan of fish so I can't eat much japanese food unfortunately. However I enjoy japanese style curry more than indian style. I could eat a lot of asian food since I'm in Seattle but the only "japanese" places around here are steakhouses and sushi parlors which is kind of a bummer. Also calimari is really good so long as the pieces are lightly fried and not just big hunks of squid. Though to be fair I'm not actually sure if that's japanese.

>>9033726
> she said it in her sleep
Dude open your eyes, she's clearly fucking takoyaki.

>>9026204
everything and sushi in particular is wayyyy over priced
its good if you make it yourself. otherwise the rice balls are the only worth it thing to buy from a jap place

>>9034295
>ramen in good, but in america its a trend which misses the point
totally wrong

>>9035211
japanese curry is shit, mate

>>9033675
It is japanese, albeit fast food.

>>9035536
Instant Ramen doesn't count.

>>9033907
Yeh get a tonkatsu sandwich from a proper katsu place. Convenience store is ok, but it's nothing compared to the real thing.

>>9026213
>>9026240

Just a sec getting the melon baller

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>>9035218
Made me smile, thank you anon

>>9030231
literally reverse that

Food pics from japan thread? Food pics from japan thread.

>>9026204
Overrated
Sushi is okay
Ramen is gud
Anything beyond noodles and fish...eh

>>9030232
Ramen is basically the burrito
It doesn't actually exist in China, much like how burritos aren't actually a thing in mexico.

>>9029673

ALL of the best foods arise from austerity and poverty; Vietnamese food uses everything and uses it well, I love it and I like you guys.

>>9038372
>ALL of the best foods arise from austerity and poverty

This. Even a lot of the "French classics" that you can get at an expensive 3-star restaurant have their origins in impoverished peasant cuisine.

>>9026278
By curry or a sandwich did you mean instant noodles or a grocery bento? Japanese youth don't have money for much else for lunch and Japanese business men have their bank account controlled by their wife that makes them eat like they are still a student.

>>9034059
Is there an entire industry completely made up of restaurants that specialize in baked beans and basically only baked beans?
Ramen is far and a way better in Japan. Atleast with sushi if you're willing to spend too much money you can get something decent in the US.

>>9026510
My wife will only eat sushi if it is the fried kind. She's fat too. God Bless America.

>>9030126

Are you trying to say that Portugal isn't "western" relative to Japan? Because that would be pants-on-head retarded.

Also, I wasn't talking about tempura in general, I was talking about tempura-frying a sushi roll, which I doubt was invented in Portugal.

>>9035746
Japan stole popcorn chicken from the great Colonel Sanders!

>>9026204
It's neither over- nor underrated. It's a good, diverse and well developed cuisine. And it gets the praise it deserves.

Sushi and teriyaki are my favourites

hey what about japanese peanuts?

>>9026213
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>>9028509
> I always found pho bland
Pho is suppose to taste light with delicate umami flavor.

I am Vietnamese and I find ramen to be too salty and heavy.

Drinking ramen broth is like drinking sea water.
I made that mistake the first time I went to a Japanese restaurant, thinking it's like Pho.
Fucking hell was it salty, especially at the bottom of the bowl, from all the miso.

Anything Japanese is too salty.
Even our most concentrated fish sauce is still lighter than the common Japanese soysauce.

funny this tread is a bunch of anime fag neck beards, no real japs here.

>>9039256
There are few Japs on 4chan at all, since they don't posses the necessary level of english to communicate comfortably with other nationalities, at least in most cases.
There's a bunch of them on /int/ though, if you really wanna ask them something. Then again, /int/ is /b/ and /pol/ lite and probably not worth your time.

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>>9039256

I don't like dairy for the most part, so japanese cuisine (and most asian cuisine) is something I'm partial to since they don't use dairy. Coconut milk for curry notwithstanding

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>>9039363
>filthy japs on my board

>>9039542
>Coconut milk for curry
That's thai curry

>>9039363
Nice. Tell us more.

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>>9040234
Japanese food sucks.
Everything uses Soy sauce, Dashi, Mirin, Sake, and Yuzu.
Japan is a tiny island, with not that much land mass, so there isn't that much space to grow/make ingredients, so pretty much everything has the exact same thing inside, just prepared slightly different.

Just grab whatever is in the ocean, rub it in Soy sauce, dashi, mirin, sake and yuzu, and you have authentic Japanese food.

Even then more popular food in Japan is Chinese food, like Mabodofu/Gyoza etc.
Plus since we only have a small number of ingredients in Japan, all foreign food made in Japan is also samey. Something as dumb as refried beans in Japan is super expensive.

The only thing I can think of that is super different but is still technically "Japanese but not really" is Taco Rice. It's Okinawan food, but Okinawa is technically Japan now. But not really.

>>9040316
I can't tell if this is a butthurt korean or assblasted sturmfaggot. Either way they'd have the same opinion about Japan.

>>9040374
I'm an Osaka born Jap, you weeaboo.

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>>9026204
90% of the shit they serve at "Japanese Restaurants" is just autistically prepared Thai food. The normies sit there on those shitty throw pillows like the smug little cunts they are humming to themselves about how they're "so authentic" as they gobble down microwaved soybeans and deep fried tofu. Makes me fucking sick. Anyhoo, pic is of one of my all time favorite Thai dishes.

Japanese food itself is very good. The snacks are great, the meals are very filling without being huge in calories, and are relatively cheap. The sweets are generally delicious without being overpowering. If you don't like rice or noodles though, don't even bother trying to like it.

Practically all "japanese" restaurants state side are shit though. Even sushi is hit or miss. Your best bet is to find some small no name place or hit up go go curry.

>>9033667
what is this?

>>9042175
kastudon

>>9029673
>Pot-au-feu might also be bland.
We tried to civilized you but I can see that we failed.

>>9026204
I've had tempura shrimp many times and it tastes like what you dip it in.

>>9026204
Personally I don't enjoy it, I live in a country where there are mainly all-you can eat chains and I've eaten Japanese cuisine only in these ones, only the biggest cities have real Japanese restaurants, but I can't afford them
btw, I'm a meat lover and seafood taste make me retch

>>9026204
Takoyaki are pretty neat

>>9040379
>>>/futaba/

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>>9040374

Not him, but I am Korean and I shittalk about Korea's food all the time. In my experience, everyone downplays their culture's food during conversations (usually about how they're "all the same"). It's just something people do.

Foreigners don't believe it when natives say their food is bland and boring because to them it is different and exciting. Anyways quit being a white-knighting weeb.