post effay meals

>>10905145
Fuck fancy plated meals at high-end restaurants. I've been to my share of bleedingly-expensive restaurants, and they all end up being mediocre and overhyped. There are a lot of places like that in D.C., and they're all cut from the same cloth: American or Italian cuisine, over-designed, and food that tastes like it was microwaved in the back.

What rocks: hole-in-the-wall ethnic food that takes you out of your comfort zone. Case in point, Ethiopian food is pretty easy to find here, and it's rad as hell (the more raw, the better, though I've gotten massively sick that way). Same with Peruvian chicken, Vietnamese pho, etc.

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>>10905167
Pic related. Gored Gored. You rip off some of the injera (a sort of sour bread) and use it as a utensil to scoop the delicious meat/spice. Goddamn delicious.

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>>10905145

>>10905167
hey f.am, am going to GWU next year, can you name any specific restaurants in the general area that are good? I wanna live inside a nice and cheap hole-in-the-wall foreign restaurant and order the same item every day.

>>10905167
/thread

>>10905167
This.

Also: Learn to fucking cook. It's not /fa/ to be a clueless fuck who can't cook.

>>10905167
>Ethiopian food
too many calories familia

>>10905184
lol bet you've only had 1 line in ur 16 year life

>>10905189
Foggy Bottom isn't exactly the hot spot for good food. I've pretty much checked out every place there and haven't found anything that blew my mind.

With that said:
- Penn Grill is amazing and the old Asian guy there is rad as fuck but it's a quick way to get fat on stir fry
- Roti, Potbelly, etc. are okay and will take your GWU card I think, students at those places all the time
- Founding Farmers is good like twice. You'll tire of it fast.
- I can confirm that the following places blow: Circa, Rasika, BTS, District Commons, Bobby's Burger Palace, Bertucci's, anything on I St.
- IIRC the girl that works at Poppabox is cute as fuck, so go there at least once. Their food isn't great the last time I went.

Your best strategy is to hop the metro to Dupont Circle or Adams Morgan and/or walk to Georgetown. The places there are so-so. You could also cab to Annandale, which is where the adorable Korean shit is.

>>10905237
Thanks for the genuine help f.am, will check out penn grill and qt girl. Are you a student or resident?

>>10905257
>Are you a student or resident?
Lawyer in the city. There was a period where I had a fuckbuddy in Foggy Bottom (who WAS a student) so I was there a lot.

>>10905174
/thread
Ngl, I love when people talk about Ethiopian food, its just so underrated.
It's nice having extremely Ethiopian parents that constantly stock homemade injera, might go warm some up for dinner now.
I actually know a couple of Ethiopian restaurant owners in DC and Virginia and it's okay, but they usually use domestic teff (flour), which is cheaper but not as good as imported whole wheat teff. Most Ethiopian restaurants have inferior ingredients, I'd try to get invited to dinner at an house with the good homemade stuff.

>>10905271

you're the reason i come to fa

>>10905288
>>10905174

how does it work though? I see that you rip the underlying bread, but do you rip in such a way that it forms like a taco around the heap of food?

>>10905311
probably am retarded for even asking, but it looks like it could potentially be a big mess.

>>10905311
Nah. You rip off a small piece and use your thumb and forefinger to pinch food between the pieces of injera. It's somewhat messy.

>>10905311
It's kinda hard to explain, especially since I wasn't really taught but instead I grew up with it. You kinda rip a piece off and scoop it by pinching it.

This video shows it pretty well though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IQ4ds7-Zqk

>>10905329

I got it, looks pretty good. Will def try an Ethiopian restaurant Thanks for being so helpful >>10905329 >>10905324

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>>10905174
>no kitfo
Fucking dropped. Just kidding - everything there looks good. It's just that kitfo is my favorite Ethiopian dish.

Have you been to "Burma" restaurant, though (it's a Burmese place that is just called "Burma")? It's one of my favorite places in DC.

>>10905347
It isn't closed? Shit, I should try it out, thanks for the rec

>>10905351
Oh, shit, I just searched Yelp, and it seems closed. I wonder when it closed.

I think the last time I was there was a couple of years ago.

>>10905340
You definitely should. Make sure you can handle spicy food and try a variety platter like >>10905174.
You'll generally get:
-a non-spicy lentil sauce (the yellow one)
-A spicy lentil sauce (the red/brownish one on top)
-A couple vegetable mixes consisting of anything from kale (known as goman; in right of pic) to various spicy peppers mixed together)
-A brown spicy sauce called doro wat (its pretty good, if you get it get some boiled eggs or chicken doused in it as well)
-One of a variety of cooked beef. Just beef cut and doused in something spicy and tasty then cooked. Sometimes barbequed into tibs (or however you spell that, it's weird converting amharic into readable english)

Other things that aren't pictured to get:
-Kitfo, as picutred in >>10905347 is generally considered a favourite amongst Ethiopians, not sure about how it sits with others
-Ibe, a cottage cheese type thing that helps you cool down if your meal is too spicy
-Fit Fit, just soggy injera bits mixed with cooked lamb bits, usually eaten on religious holidays


>>10905347
Ayyy who else /habesha/ here?
Also doro eggs are my favourite thing on injera but I always like Kita or Besu better than injera bc I'm pleb

>>10905167

That's cause DC sucks for food. 1 good thing about Houston is we have a huge diverse section of good food.

>>10905174
I'm celiac, got any gluten free meal advice?

>>10905226
anonsnapone?

>>10905437
Unfortunately no - sorry!

>>10905167
lol but you're in dc a cesspool devoid of culture

fancy plated meals in nyc for example can be worth the money. not all the time, but a lot

>>10905145
also
>dressing
lol kill yourself

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muji is love

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>>10905167
the more suspicious a foreign restaurant is, the better it is
this has worked for me in multiple countries

>>10905413
Beta Israeli

I can eat doro eggs, can't eat Doro wat though because ferenj Jews don't allow dairy with animal meat.

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Vegan sushi

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>>10905749

>>10905749
>>10905764
lol vegan "sushi"

that's as awful as a "meatless burger"

>>10905749
>>10905764
10/10 hell yea anon

>>10905768
It's super pathetic how white (Usually female) vegans make bland-ass meals based around veggies, but "We literally live in shit" Indians can make vegan meals that taste fucking amazing.

INB4 "bbbut my arranged/instagram-able bowl of quinoa and shitty uncooked/unseasoned veggies!"

>>10905749
How many calories in that tho

>>10905798
Why do you care? I eat like 400g carbs a day and I am lean asf, I dont even do that much cardio.

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Vegan

>>10905816
Because I only eat 400 cals a day

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>>10905833
If thats true then pls say goodbye to your friends. Rip anon

Oh an vegan pizza

>>10905697
Chocolate covered coffee beans, my favorite snack of all time.
You; I like you.

>>10905826

I was gunna say, Dim Sum with a good group of friends is bomb. Not vegan though...

>>10905843
I only started this recently, I'm not anorexic I just want to lose weight then I'll start eating healthy

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Vegan

>>10905846
That actually sounds very pleasant, atm. Although, my group of friends and I just stuffed our faces at a Korean barbecue place, a little bit a go

>>10905853

Korean BBQ is also awesome, the good places are so hard to get into though! Always a fucking wait

>>10905862
true, actually. But there are also the places that >>10905716 mentions. But yeah, always a good time to go sit down with a few good friends and talk over some yummy meat and veggies.
(And you can't forget that bomb ass hot-pot soup)

>>10905850
You will literally die if you continue. Eat more, educate yourself on a high carb whole-foods plant based diet and transition slowly...and being active helps. There are no shortcuts anon.

Here are some basic recipe ideas:
https://youtu.be/4cJtRfl76D0

>>10905872

Meh, we always go to a place that at least has a bar so we can drink while we wait, that seems to make it all the more pleasant.

>>10905885
haha, i know what you mean. I like to go around a certain time, so we always beat the crowds. And I'm good friends with the owners of a certain place, so we don't have to wait in such a crowd, anyways.

>>10905158
I remember this

>>10905881
I'll just do it for two months senpai
I'm fat
I'll be fine

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>>10905885
Korean BBQ + flavored Soju = good day with friends

>>10905965

What Soju do you recommend? Sake and soju just isn't really to my taste...love wine though... but then again there is so much to try.

>>10905972
With friends, we drink literally whatever they have. I'll be honest and say that I hate sake and soju as well (especially warm), but some of the places here in NOVA do melon soju, which is surprisingly tolerable.

>>10905768
there are no meat requirements for a burger.

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>>10905962
>vegan
pls stop that's my trigger

>>10905977
You ever get out to Tysons?
I'm in NOVA as well and haven't really found many good restaurants in my area.

>>10905983
just like how there are no pussy requirements for you to have sex

>>10905977
Soju is tolerable with a beer chaser.

>>10905992
Yep! I've had a hard time finding good restaurants in Tyson's, I kinda feel like it's weirdly whitewashed despite the huge number of middle eastern women who seem to hang out there.

I spend a LOT more time in the Falls Church / Annandale area because I'm some sort of vietboo/koreaboo/chinaboo or something.

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>>10905843
>>10905749
>>10905826
>>10905851
/fa/ is vegan, that's cool.
>>10905996
are you trying to get laid anon?

>>10905977
>>10905999

yeah definitely seems like an acquired taste, they fucking love the stuff in Asia though

>>10906009
I had a news crew in from South Korea to do a story on hacking, and I took them out for sushi (just about every sushi joint in the Vancouver area is owned by Koreans, go figure), and they introduced me to it. We closed the place down, it was great. I'm surprised I could walk after.

how can a meal be fashionable?

Its fucking food, you faggots need to stop making everything about fashion

>>10906047
being /fa/ is a lifestyle choice m8

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>>10905167
>tastes like it was microwaved in the back

kek, I work at a fancy italian restaurant

we microwave just about everything

fucking vegan pathetic hipsters
vegan = vape

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>>10906241
not killing animals = hipster?
i would understand someone being a hipster for eating gluten free or something even if they didn't have celiacs or a gluten allergy.
just because someone has different foundational morals/ethics than you doesn't mean they're hipster.

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>>10905843
Any good cheese alternatives that don't taste like shit?

>>10906400
chao cheese is pretty decent.
tree nut co. or whatever it's called is decent but it's pretty sour.

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>>10906400
>>10906456

>>10906400
also forgot, nutritional yeast sounds gross but it's insanely good. adds a cheesy/nutty flavor. pour a bunch of that shit on some pasta with veggies and sauce and you have a god like meal.

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>>10906469
>>10906456

So does it have bunch of preservatives/added crap that makes it that way?

No point in eating all these shitty alternatives if you are going to die from them.

filtered water, coconut oil, modified corn and potato starch, tomato juice, potato starch, fermented chao tofu, sea salt, green and red dried bell peppers, cayenne pepper, natural vegan flavor, olive extract, paprika extract, beta carotene

vegans care about what goes in their food.

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>all this carbshit
lol?

>>10905949
Take supplemental vitamins, minerals and amino acids. Make sure you're getting fiber.

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>>10905145

>>10906517
this tbvh

>>10905145
Probably one of the most pleasant threads I've seen on fa in a long time.
My grandfather fishes in a very nice lake not far from my town so we always have fresh pickerel to eat. Pickerel with some lemon juice and veggies is fucking fantastic.

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>>10906838
I was just thinking the same thing about the pleasant thread. Gives me hope for /fa/.

Now, my input: literally anything that's tasty. Recently, I've really been digging Peruvian food. Aji de Gallina really is one of the best things I've ever tasted tbqh. Pic related

>>10905145
>>10905174
>>10905347
>>10905697
>>10905749
>>10905764
>>10905826
>>10905843
>>10905962
Dude, i'm gonna type as sober as possible, that honestly looks fucking pathetic and digusting compared to my meal. and I'm being one hundred percent serious. Sorry we dont cook shit that was perviously in cans. you're a fuking joke dude, and im dead fuking serious. gert areal family that cooks good food, drinks beer and wine and winecoolers and has a good fuking time, and has a milliondollar house on the beach, im seriously.. dont eever potst your fuking families poverty dinner on these forums ever the fuk again bro, and by bro i mean never my bro, fuking faggot.

>>10906842
I find south American food to just be really great. There's a El Salvadorian restaurant in my city and they have the best chicken burritos. They taste almost too fresh and it's a family owned restaurant with the owners wife making all the food.

>>10906847
Somebody who gets drunk and shitposts on /fa/ definitely knows about the good life.

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>>10906274
fuck animals
u fucking gay cunt

pathetic thread
/fa/ 2016 = reddit nu male

>>10906865
Hahaha this

>>10906495
Nutrional yeast is actually pretty heathy and btw cheese is the worst regarding health. You really cant do worse than real cheese.

>>10906006
Yeah, more grown ups here than on /fit/.
Pretty cool actually.

>>10907030
Isn't this thread a joke? I normally only eat spagbol or shitty rice since I'm not a great chef. Sausages, fish and chips and cheap steak are more usual though.

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>>10905145
really enjoy pic related, there's an amazing place in Berlin

is being a fruitarian effay? I'm not one but fruit would be a substantial part of my diet, +50%. I know its correlated to pancreatic cancer

>>10907071
Too much sugar familia

>>10907079
but its almost impossible to overeat fructose by eating fruit

>>10906848
what is this

>>10907099
Blackberries, bananas and semen on custard caviar.

>>10907079
>>10907088
Dont listen to this idiot. Refined sugar=/=fructose

Even refined sugar (not always vegan tho) isnt that bad, diabetes isnt caused by high sugar intake. It is the combination of fat and sugar which causes the insulin not to reach the liver. This results in the liver continuing to produce its own sugar.
How do you think real athletes eat? Not talking about fags from /fit/ with their keto fad diet, I mean pro triathletes and ultrarunners for example.
They eat a 80/10/10 or 90/10/10 diet which you get naturally by eating high carb foods. They eat tons of bananas ajd dates too.

>>10907099
Chia Seeds probably

ethiopians eat food?

>>10905174
You seriously sound like you just watched that one the simpsons episode

>>10907233
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3337cj4sJQ

/fa/ approved cuisine.

>>10906742
I do
Thanks

>>10905167
>>10905174
>>10905237
>>10905271
>>10905324
>>10905351
>>10905649
lmao who is this nigga ehtiopian food is trash
and why is he named after a pleb movie
and using a fucking trip lol

>>10906192
Lmao

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>>10907060
i kno thats why i havent been eating it

feels good but i miss pizza sometimes

>>10905797
Indians use a lot of ghee and paneer. That's why it tastes good. Veganism is a life without flavor. You must have a busted palette to enjoy it.

>"humans were never intended to eat animals!"
>every meal imitates flavor and texture of meat

>>10907634
texture, sure. flavour? lolno vegan food rarely has any sort of flavour.

>>10907630
Lmao you are stupid.
>>10907634
Where do vegans imitate meat? Sometimes when I go out like once a month I will eat a vegan burger.
Normall I eat only high carb whole foods dishes and a lot of fruit.

Don't have a pic, I don't have a habit of photographing my meals but here's my dinner:
kale,carrot,garlic,lamb's lettuce,sweet corn and tuna salad + apple and a banana (I finally started working out and now I get crazy cramps,hence the banana)

>>10906274
You're not saving shit. You know it's even funnier considering how many items you probably use daily that are produced by companies that are not even close to your sensitive morals. At least meat industry isn't hurting humans.

>>10907634

If you're asking why we have fake chicken nuggets and shit, that's because it's convenient and we grew up eating meat in those forms. A lot of it tastes pretty good too.
Veganism isn't about hippie bullshit, it's about trying not to contribute to pointless death. We don't need to slaughter billions of creatures a year just because they taste good. There are also several environmental reasons.

But at the end of the day, who fucking cares?

>>10905229
wow edgy

>>10905546
American food is 90% carbs

>>10907956
carb the fuck up senpai

>>10907956
>Italy: pasta and bread and baked desserts
>Latin America: rice, beans, corn/flour tortillas
>India: rice and flatbreads every meal
>Middle East: rice and flatbreads every meal
>Asia: rice, rice, rice

everyone's food is carb poison except for based inuits.

>>10907152
kek

>>10907978
This guy gets it.

>>10907865
please point me to some of those products because i'm certain that all of what i'm using in my personal and daily life contains no animal products.
the meat industry is hurting humans. heard of that study saying that red or processed meat is carcinogenic?

I think something is wrong with you, if
my positive life choices makes you so upset for some reason.

>>10905145
holy shit, kill yourself.
some romaine lettuce in a plastic container with some unhealthy jizz flavoring to trickle over it.
jesus fucking christ
>2016
>people still dont know how to eat well

>>10908034
>carbs
>poison
pick one.
there's a also an uptrend of obesity in inuits.

>>10908034
youre really brainwashed and autistic.

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Are you guys even trying?

>>10908229
the uptick in inuit obesity is caused by their adoption of cheap carbs in place of their traditional animal-based diets.

>>10908258
>i hate science

>>10908428
then why mention inuits in the first place?

sorry but carbs aren't as evil as reddit wants you to believe. something like a ketogenic diet is a fad diet and it's not sustainable long term. glucose from carbs is also the main fuel for brain function and other bodily functions.

i'd also like for you to find me a fat person on an 80/10/10 diet.

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Just now.

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Most visually appeal food has to go to Japan

>>10908367
Oh Jesus fuck I love that garbage.

>>10908834
my nigga

>>10908834
naïve
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>>10908442
>he doesn't know about ketones!

post less.

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eating at a cat cafe

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>>10909645

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>>10909106
high levels of ketones are toxic you dumby ;)
keep on your shitty fad diet.
pic related

>>10907956
Well used to be because we worked for a living

>>10905768
It's Kimbap. A Korean dish

>>10906274
Scooping rice out with a ladle triggers me

>>10906815
When I was like 8, I ate my cousins entire jug of that shit.
I saw it on his dresser. I wanted just a little bit. But a little wasn't enough so I tried for more.
I kept taking a little more until it was all gone.
He was pissed when he found out.

>>10909645
>>10909649
You know
I'd skip out on eating for two days to go to one of those and just eat a shitload of cake

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>>10909718
>>10909718
It was absolutely lovely.
I felt sick at the first one due to travel and being overly tired and couldn't finish the cake unfortunately.
Got a lovely souvenirs though

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>>10909718
Also

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>>10908367
My weakness... stupid amount of calories though.

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>>10910300
>ywn appreciate ramen this much

>>10907678
Google "vegan butcher shop"

>>10906400
Best I have had were not prepackaged. The most tolerable prepackaged was Follow Your Heart. Of fresh vegan cheeses, the best was on a pizza I had in Mexico. The cheese was made from potato. Another good one I had was in Dallas at a raw vegan place, and it was made from cashew.

>>10908197
Just so you know, meat is carcinogenic because you cook it. Especially searing and grilling. In fact, the carbon you're creating when you char food (the burnt bits) is actually the carcinogen. Grilled veggies, hell grilled or seared ANYTHING, have carcinogens as well.

Boycott grills, not meat, you ignorant vegan twat.

>>10905949
you need protein anon or you will die

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>Not eating klades kaviar

Fucking normies

>>10910571
i have never tried tapeworm, how is it?

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Just finished my 12h fast, having a shitty caffe latte as a reward

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Life is boring without good food. Id rather not be a skinny skeleton than starve myself and wander around dizzy and light headed my whole life

>>10910557
Protein meme

>>10909673
high levels of water is toxic too. are u stupid

>you now realize there is no ideal diet and that humans evolved to survive on an incredible variety of foods available in vastly different climates.

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rick

>>10911227
are there really people this fat on this board?

>eating sugar
>ever drinking soda
>eating fast food except when you're on a bender
>being a picky eater

Not even once.

>>10905647
love dat nigga.. hope your date went well homie

Top 3:
Pho
Blini
Carbonara

>>10907877
>it's about trying not to contribute to pointless death
it's not pointless if a human gets even an iota of satisfaction or pleasure from it.

>>10911448
what the fuck is that