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Post by beta on Sept 25, 2022 5:29:06 GMT
I watched some documentary about The Ramones a hundred years ago. I was smug about how provincial Johnny Ramone seemed to me as I was traveling around the world. I thought that Johnny Ramone was an asshole for wanting other countries to be like the USA. Well, fuck me! I think just like that fucking guy I discover later on in life. I can remember being at Narita waiting for a flight to India or Thailand, really who fucking cares other than me because I wanted to be back in the USA badly, and thinking, 'What I wouldn't give for a fucking decent burger and real fucking beer right now?" Boom!! It hits me that I am just as fucking provincial as Johnny Ramone. That was that. Johnny Ramone, I apologize. I thought that you were some kind of Neanderthal, but, no, I am a provincial motherf*cker who also wants his burger and beer regardless of the country I am in.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Sept 25, 2022 7:09:40 GMT
Ethnocentric Confession Time: I think of chopsticks as stupid outdated barbaric relics from a bygone age. Just give us a fork or a spoon, cunt. They're readily available and are obvious technological upgrades to the hut-dweller bullshit caveman tools you so cutely and stubbornly persist with. My thoughts on Japanese food have already been made elsewhere on this forii: Japanese Food
People wank on and on and on about how awesome Japanese food is.
I'm not fucken having it.
Most of it is deeply unhealthy and often just flat-out fucken revolting.
TL/DR I am so fucking bad at being in Japan.
Let's Review;
Tofu
Disgusting. A tasteless white slab of wobbly snot. Not fucken eating this.
Miso soup.
AKA Snot Soup. Fuck off with this shit. It's not food, it's just a puddle of wet brown bullshit.
Umeboshi
An impossibly sour shrivelled plum gonad. Some sort of punishment from the samurai days, fucked if I know. Not food.
Sushi.
Sushi is fine and a big fuck yeah. Fuck off with the Snot Soup and get the sushi on.
Tempura.
A fucking joke of a food. A tiny piece of pumpkin or some shit that is deep fried in a massive casing of crusty batter. It's just 90% solidified cooking oil. This shit will kill you. Healthy food my black arse.
Soba
Revolting tasteless spaghetti. No taste.
Udon
Revolting tasteless spaghetti. No taste.
Oden
Boiled eggs and radish floating about in a puddle of tasteless hot water. Fucking terrible. Not eating this shit.
Nabe
Nabe = Pot. Yep, just any rando shit thrown in a pot with hot water. Fuck this floaty bullshit.
Natto
Rotten beans. Obviously not food. It's gone rotten you stupid cunts. Throw it out.
Tonkatsu
Deep-fried pork on rice. Japanese food is so healthy. This shit will kill you.
Mochi
Sugared rice that's been kneaded into the consistency of a melted eraser. Inedible. This is the shit that old cunts choke on and die from every New Years. LOL.
Okonomiyaki
Pizza sized pancake of half-raw flour covered in dead squid and mayonnaise. Hmmmm, delicious. Get fucked.
Yakitori
Skewered and grilled chicken bits. Can work if the fucking thing is not 86% gristle. TL/DR, it's always 86% gristle. I reckon I could make this way better than some of the insulting shit on a stick they dish up at restaurants.
Takoyaki
Half-raw flour dough balls with a tiny piece of fucking octopus inside. Hmm, what a treat. You may was well eat raw flour and a microwaved eraser. Fuck this shit.
Ramen
The wank about ramen is off the charts. After eating this with its oil and bullshit your guts will feel crook as fuck. There's a reason most Japanese people are somehow fat and skinny at the same time and I reckon it's this rubbish.
Karaage
Fried chicken. No hot water, no floaty shit, no half-raw flour. Congratulations Japan on not fucking up fried chicken. FFS.
Sukiyaki
Here we fucken go again, another pot of hot water with floating fucking vegetables. You can't taste a thing except for fucken hot water. Plus it has that see-through spaghetti bullshit that everyone avoids as they make a beeline for the salvageable bits of meat that, too late, have already been stripped of all meat taste by the stupid fucking hot water. Fuck this nonsense.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2022 7:10:42 GMT
.......guess we all have our Johnny Ramone moments at some point in time....Benny missed his favorite beer and hockey night in canada when he first came here to japan........but realized over time it didn't really matter........just go with the flow.......no matter where you are.........works for Benny.
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Post by sukebegg on Sept 25, 2022 9:06:19 GMT
It's not a weird attitude to have a "fuck I'd kill for a burger and beer with taste..." - it is fairly regular human nature*.
I knew a guy in Hiroshima, really great rock DJ and huge support for the local DJ scene. HC liberal democrat and his wife works at the UN in human rights, but he would come out with laughable complaints like subpar Japanese western foods (white bread etc.) or the lack of good pastrami sandwiches, willfully ignoring the massive culinary cultural history of Japan. Dude loved Japanese food but it would be like expecting great sushi in Kansas in 1993 or something. Made silly comments about a friend's Japan Times piece about a famous breakfast place in Osaka too. I think his half-Japanese kid and him had it rough in the inaka, so he started to harbor weird hostilities. Would still post photos of the "empty gaijin seat" next to him instead of just enjoying the extra space...
ETA*: I really like Viet food but after two days of seafood feasts at fairly local joints on a recent in-country vacay, I was like, "I'll just have some crappy room service bolognese..." (no lie, my first option, the hamburger, was sold out!)
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Post by Ladyfingers on Sept 25, 2022 14:05:31 GMT
I haven't too many complaints about Australia, since it's fairly similar to South Africa in many respects, but the food here is not up to South African standards, excepting the sheer variety of ethnic cuisines on offer.
The standard array of sauces on offer at restaurants and takeaways is horrific. Tomato and BBQ sauces are bland and too sweet, and the less said about the until-recent ubiquity of sweet chilli sauce the better. I introduced the other half to South African tomato sauce (All Gold) and she was flabbergasted at how much better it was than anything on offer in Australia. Hot peach chutney is good too.
Sausage here is so underspiced it's a crime, and most of it is dry beef instead of good fatty pork. I used to be able to grab some standard pork bangers at the supermarket in SA and either barbecue or pan-fry them to excellence with no fuss, but now I have to genuinely seek out a serious butcher if I want something even vaguely palatable.
Pies here are generally a bit crap. Minced beef as the standard filling and sweetened short crust instead of puff pastry is some truly desperate stuff. Proper steak, especially pepper steak, is a weird rarity. Again, I introduced the Ladierfingers to SA pies and she was in a meat-n-pastry heaven she had never formerly imagined.
Power plugs and strips here are shit and not up to the task. Never once did I encounter a plug heating up from a high-current appliance in SA, but here it's the norm. Also, the crap flat pins bend easily and the cable sticks straight out the back making it take too much space behind furniture. Rubbish. The hulking brass bollard prongs of home are vastly better.
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Post by beta on Sept 25, 2022 17:01:34 GMT
Ethnocentric Confession Time: I think of chopsticks as stupid outdated barbaric relics from a bygone age. Just give us a fork or a spoon, cunt. They're readily available and are obvious technological upgrades to the hut-dweller bullshit caveman tools you so cutely and stubbornly persist with. My thoughts on Japanese food have already been made elsewhere on this forii: Japanese Food
People wank on and on and on about how awesome Japanese food is.
I'm not fucken having it.
Most of it is deeply unhealthy and often just flat-out fucken revolting.
TL/DR I am so fucking bad at being in Japan.
Let's Review;
Tofu
Disgusting. A tasteless white slab of wobbly snot. Not fucken eating this.
Miso soup.
AKA Snot Soup. Fuck off with this shit. It's not food, it's just a puddle of wet brown bullshit.
Umeboshi
An impossibly sour shrivelled plum gonad. Some sort of punishment from the samurai days, fucked if I know. Not food.
Sushi.
Sushi is fine and a big fuck yeah. Fuck off with the Snot Soup and get the sushi on.
Tempura.
A fucking joke of a food. A tiny piece of pumpkin or some shit that is deep fried in a massive casing of crusty batter. It's just 90% solidified cooking oil. This shit will kill you. Healthy food my black arse.
Soba
Revolting tasteless spaghetti. No taste.
Udon
Revolting tasteless spaghetti. No taste.
Oden
Boiled eggs and radish floating about in a puddle of tasteless hot water. Fucking terrible. Not eating this shit.
Nabe
Nabe = Pot. Yep, just any rando shit thrown in a pot with hot water. Fuck this floaty bullshit.
Natto
Rotten beans. Obviously not food. It's gone rotten you stupid cunts. Throw it out.
Tonkatsu
Deep-fried pork on rice. Japanese food is so healthy. This shit will kill you.
Mochi
Sugared rice that's been kneaded into the consistency of a melted eraser. Inedible. This is the shit that old cunts choke on and die from every New Years. LOL.
Okonomiyaki
Pizza sized pancake of half-raw flour covered in dead squid and mayonnaise. Hmmmm, delicious. Get fucked.
Yakitori
Skewered and grilled chicken bits. Can work if the fucking thing is not 86% gristle. TL/DR, it's always 86% gristle. I reckon I could make this way better than some of the insulting shit on a stick they dish up at restaurants.
Takoyaki
Half-raw flour dough balls with a tiny piece of fucking octopus inside. Hmm, what a treat. You may was well eat raw flour and a microwaved eraser. Fuck this shit.
Ramen
The wank about ramen is off the charts. After eating this with its oil and bullshit your guts will feel crook as fuck. There's a reason most Japanese people are somehow fat and skinny at the same time and I reckon it's this rubbish.
Karaage
Fried chicken. No hot water, no floaty shit, no half-raw flour. Congratulations Japan on not fucking up fried chicken. FFS.
Sukiyaki
Here we fucken go again, another pot of hot water with floating fucking vegetables. You can't taste a thing except for fucken hot water. Plus it has that see-through spaghetti bullshit that everyone avoids as they make a beeline for the salvageable bits of meat that, too late, have already been stripped of all meat taste by the stupid fucking hot water. Fuck this nonsense. I have never thought about Japanese food once in any detail, until reading this accurate review of my innermost feeling about Japanese food, until today. I left that island a long time ago and made sure NOT to eat at the airport. I would go to Indian restaurants whenever, however, and wherever possible. Enjoy your bland food, Yamadas. I remember learning the adjective for "bland" and misapplying it, according my Japanese overlords who posed as language teachers. In my Johnny Ramone inner voice, I thought 'it's not my fault you don't know what bland really means, dictionary makers, because it ain't a compliment in the English I happen to speak.' Like Johnny Ramone, I focused on other things. Japan imports and buys more Gibson guitars than the company sells in America, where the fucking things are made and not bought by that many people, it seems. Some guy in Yokohama was bragging about this as if Americans didn't know a quality instrument. I had to laugh. Only here in Japan would you ignore all the great, and much cheaper instruments, you fucking clones. Johnny Ramone had his Moserite. Good on him. Why did I buy Gretsch drums? Because all these Japanese clones would go on and on about Ludwig drums at the ramen (tasteless food shops) spot by my house. For a decent non-clone experience, I found an Indian restaurant about ten minutes up the road. Clones, muppets, and so on abounded in Yokohama, as far as I could see. Fuck, Johnny Ramone is a bit too close to the bone here in me.
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Post by beta on Sept 25, 2022 17:11:09 GMT
It's not a weird attitude to have a "fuck I'd kill for a burger and beer with taste..." - it is fairly regular human nature*.
I knew a guy in Hiroshima, really great rock DJ and huge support for the local DJ scene. HC liberal democrat and his wife works at the UN in human rights, but he would come out with laughable complaints like subpar Japanese western foods (white bread etc.) or the lack of good pastrami sandwiches, willfully ignoring the massive culinary cultural history of Japan. Dude loved Japanese food but it would be like expecting great sushi in Kansas in 1993 or something. Made silly comments about a friend's Japan Times piece about a famous breakfast place in Osaka too. I think his half-Japanese kid and him had it rough in the inaka, so he started to harbor weird hostilities. Would still post photos of the "empty gaijin seat" next to him instead of just enjoying the extra space...
ETA*: I really like Viet food but after two days of seafood feasts at fairly local joints on a recent in-country vacay, I was like, "I'll just have some crappy room service bolognese..." (no lie, my first option, the hamburger, was sold out!) Some guy I knew from Korea came to Japan for a visit. He kept eating the sandwiches that I never could take the smell of. He would rave about how much better they were than the sandwiches in Korea. I would want to vomit just smelling the bread that was so wrong. The guy just kept on chomping away meal after meal. "Empty gaijin seat" in Kanto is something I never experienced. The things we start to be hostile about are amazing: a bit of space, shite bread in country that only gives a fuck about rice, people's choice in drums, and, for me, the incessant fucking television sounds in every house I passed night after night.
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Post by beta on Sept 25, 2022 17:14:32 GMT
I haven't too many complaints about Australia, since it's fairly similar to South Africa in many respects, but the food here is not up to South African standards, excepting the sheer variety of ethnic cuisines on offer. The standard array of sauces on offer at restaurants and takeaways is horrific. Tomato and BBQ sauces are bland and too sweet, and the less said about the until-recent ubiquity of sweet chilli sauce the better. I introduced the other half to South African tomato sauce (All Gold) and she was flabbergasted at how much better it was than anything on offer in Australia. Hot peach chutney is good too. Sausage here is so underspiced it's a crime, and most of it is dry beef instead of good fatty pork. I used to be able to grab some standard pork bangers at the supermarket in SA and either barbecue or pan-fry them to excellence with no fuss, but now I have to genuinely seek out a serious butcher if I want something even vaguely palatable. Pies here are generally a bit crap. Minced beef as the standard filling and sweetened short crust instead of puff pastry is some truly desperate stuff. Proper steak, especially pepper steak, is a weird rarity. Again, I introduced the Ladierfingers to SA pies and she was in a meat-n-pastry heaven she had never formerly imagined. Power plugs and strips here are shit and not up to the task. Never once did I encounter a plug heating up from a high-current appliance in SA, but here it's the norm. Also, the crap flat pins bend easily and the cable sticks straight out the back making it take too much space behind furniture. Rubbish. The hulking brass bollard prongs of home are vastly better. South Africa, at least Pretoria and Johannesburg and their environs where I have been, has good food to my mind. Like really good food. I don't know anything about Australian food, but South African food is worth traveling for. Japanese food is what gets people ready to leave the island forever. Can't live on sushi alone...
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Post by nikkeisindex on Sept 25, 2022 22:55:06 GMT
I generally enjoyed Japanese food however I found my tolerance for food based on fish and plain white rice to be exactly 2 in a row. Then I definitely needed to mix it up. Usually I'd do like sushi or teishoku then cook something wildly foreign at home, couscous, tomato, sweet potatoes, and chick peas, etc.
I also brought a small food processor. I had my scheme worked our pretty well. Hit the Indian shop and the foreign shop, get a sack of red lentils and chick peas, make hummus and lentil soup. Could even get pita bread. So, I'd enjoy eating Japanese food out cuz I wasn't gonna try to cook that, and I'd cook stuff at home that no restaurant was going to give me.
When hard up I always appreciated Freshness Burger had a veggie burger that oddly I recalled being okay. I had one on our last visit back and was like Jesus Christ, this is a piece of shit.
When I felt most American / Johnny Ramone was probably at band practice where like this charade of running our 10 song set for the 30th week in a row at weekly practice was like hey. We know how to play these. We don't have to do this. Just the patience for the ritual of certain ways of doing things, my USA factor would kick in and want to be like "but come on, this is dumb."
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Sept 25, 2022 23:23:52 GMT
I found my tolerance for food based on fish and plain white rice to be exactly 2 in a row. Then I definitely needed to mix it up. Yeah now that I think about it, that's me too. You are so cancelled for referring to your marital situation in that manner.
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Post by beta on Sept 25, 2022 23:49:29 GMT
Even Johnny Ramone knew not to refer to his marital situation in that manner, especially with the belittling adjective "small" for the sake of all involved. The "Cancel Culture Circus Party (CCCP)" is headed to this site immediately. Problem is I started this thread so I will be held accountable for creating the "toxic environment" and be cancelled before the victim nikkeisindex will be asked to take any personal responsibility.
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Post by beta on Sept 25, 2022 23:58:10 GMT
I generally enjoyed Japanese food however I found my tolerance for food based on fish and plain white rice to be exactly 2 in a row. Then I definitely needed to mix it up. Usually I'd do like sushi or teishoku then cook something wildly foreign at home, couscous, tomato, sweet potatoes, and chick peas, etc. I also brought a small food processor. I had my scheme worked our pretty well. Hit the Indian shop and the foreign shop, get a sack of red lentils and chick peas, make hummus and lentil soup. Could even get pita bread. So, I'd enjoy eating Japanese food out cuz I wasn't gonna try to cook that, and I'd cook stuff at home that no restaurant was going to give me. When hard up I always appreciated Freshness Burger had a veggie burger that oddly I recalled being okay. I had one on our last visit back and was like Jesus Christ, this is a piece of shit. When I felt most American / Johnny Ramone was probably at band practice where like this charade of running our 10 song set for the 30th week in a row at weekly practice was like hey. We know how to play these. We don't have to do this. Just the patience for the ritual of certain ways of doing things, my USA factor would kick in and want to be like "but come on, this is dumb." Had the same band practice problems, but the guys in that band were huge Ramones fans so couldn't really say much other than quit. And then they fucking cried when I quit. Grown men who had shown no interest in caring what they were doing to one another at any point ever before. Yes, they cried like it suddenly mattered. Cried because the songwriter and arranger was quitting to do nothing musical with anybody instead. Playing the same setlist from 2-6 in the morning in some Shibuya studio is not what my parents raised me to do happily ignoring how boring it was without stopping and making parts of songs BETTER. I would go outside, look at the sky, and curse myself for thinking that small changes were possible in other people. I was a fucking idiot. 4 hours of the same songs in the same order. Nightmare. Had to bring songs to rehearsal done completely. "Here's your part, here's the lyrics, and it has a Stones circa 1974 vibe." Less than that and it was not going to go well. It was a band with too many Johnny Ramones.
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Post by beta on Sept 26, 2022 0:03:21 GMT
.......guess we all have our Johnny Ramone moments at some point in time....Benny missed his favorite beer and hockey night in canada when he first came here to japan........but realized over time it didn't really matter........just go with the flow.......no matter where you are.........works for Benny. Hockey sucks now. You ain't missing anything. Sumo is starting to suck at times, but for decades it was beyond great. Beer in Japan, at least Sapporo Draft, is worth the money.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2022 4:17:33 GMT
.........Benny's go to beer here in nippon is actually Sapporo Black Label........most of Sapporo's beer are good IHOMO.........still remember the first japanese beer that some student handed Benny at a BBQ......Asahi Dry.........fucking hell..........it tasted just like the aluminum can it probably sat in for god knows how long.........Benny was thinking if this is what J-beer tastes like........Benny's beer drinking days could be over........oh no.
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Post by beta on Sept 26, 2022 8:02:28 GMT
.........Benny's go to beer here in nippon is actually Sapporo Black Label........most of Sapporo's beer are good IHOMO.........still remember the first japanese beer that some student handed Benny at a BBQ......Asahi Dry.........fucking hell..........it tasted just like the aluminum can it probably sat in for god knows how long.........Benny was thinking if this is what J-beer tastes like........Benny's beer drinking days could be over........oh no. Never had this Sapporo Black Label, but I had some of that ASS. beer once upon a nightmare. Fucken hell, what a fucking waste of can!
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Post by sukebegg on Sept 26, 2022 10:08:17 GMT
FWIW RE: Bread in Japan/ I think consumption is basically 50/50 rice/bread now but the bread is still obviously processed white shite loved by GIs in the '50s. I have funny memory of visiting a local bread factory as part of some day camp in the early '70s. They gave us a full loaf of bread, of which I ate nearly half of on the way home. Probably made me sick and that's why I remember. Hiroshima has a famous bakery in the city center that makes really good sourdough and other rustic breads, so that helped when there was a yearning. But once you bought the fancy ham and cheese and mustard, you're eating a 1000-yen sando. I remember everywhere in Australia saying they had sourdough as the table bread but it was the weakest sourdough I ever tasted...
For the 13 years of dealing with western food in Japan, I have been well rewarded in Sai Gon. Tons of options with a constant increase in quality. Being able to order a decent delivery meal for 1500 to 3000 yen always makes me thankful. Seems that Covid has kicked up the delivery game in Japan but good pizza options?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2022 3:57:07 GMT
..........never order a pizza in Japan.........over priced and tastes like a piece of cardboard with tomato sauce spread over it..........Benny found the best pizza option was any place that had a stone oven to cook them in.........hard to find.........but worth the wait........in Sendai there's a few places.........if they didn't go tits up during this Pandemic.......
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Post by beta on Sept 27, 2022 9:11:12 GMT
Like Johnny Ramone I would have a few beers and then order the "pizza" that didn't really look like any pizza I had seen before or since. It never bothered me a bit, even the weird looking corn that some woman spending the night would rave on about was fine. Beer first. Plenty of it. Pizza was just a pretense anyway. It was some concession in the never ending quest of some Japanese woman to prove that she could live in America with me. As if ANYBODY could live with me. LOL. I can't live with myself most days and nights. LOLZ. Poor women who thought that I sane. "No, no, please go ahead. I am going to sit here and do nothing this morning until I get a phone call telling me when rehearsal is. No, I don't want to go to Laforet or whatever it's called. No, I don't want snot soup for breakfast. No, really, I am fine right here with an electric piano and nothing else other than a cup of tea. Thanks for asking. Have a good day!"
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Post by sukebegg on Sept 27, 2022 13:18:08 GMT
..........never order a pizza in Japan.........over priced and tastes like a piece of cardboard with tomato sauce spread over it..........Benny found the best pizza option was any place that had a stone oven to cook them in.........hard to find.........but worth the wait........in Sendai there's a few places.........if they didn't go tits up during this Pandemic....... Yeah, god bless the Japanese culinary nerds who are around. There's an award-winning Naples-style place in Hiroshima - didn't deliver until the pandemic but you really have to eat that style straight out of the oven.
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Post by beta on Sept 28, 2022 3:24:49 GMT
..........never order a pizza in Japan.........over priced and tastes like a piece of cardboard with tomato sauce spread over it..........Benny found the best pizza option was any place that had a stone oven to cook them in.........hard to find.........but worth the wait........in Sendai there's a few places.........if they didn't go tits up during this Pandemic....... Yeah, god bless the Japanese culinary nerds who are around. There's an award-winning Naples-style place in Hiroshima - didn't deliver until the pandemic but you really have to eat that style straight out of the oven. Never thought about that, but now that you mention it... You have just destroyed any notion I might have had of ever ordering that style of pizza for delivery. Knowledge isn't power. Knowledge is a very depressing precursor to inaction.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Sept 28, 2022 3:27:38 GMT
I feel like the western savoury flavour profile is elusive to Asian cuisine. I don't know why, everyone has salt and meat.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Sept 28, 2022 5:55:31 GMT
Do any of you gaijin-in-Nippon ever cook western meals for friends and family? If so, how do they react?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2022 7:47:10 GMT
Do any of you gaijin-in-Nippon ever cook western meals for friends and family? If so, how do they react? .....wft?..........Benny doesn't cook................or have any friends for that matter..........family?........on the other side of the world............
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Sept 28, 2022 8:47:41 GMT
Do any of you gaijin-in-Nippon ever cook western meals for friends and family? If so, how do they react? Copious vomiting. Just kidding. I don't have any friends and my family all hate me. Just kidding again. I have loads of friends. I just don't like any of them. We used to have guests over for dinners, Xmas, b-days etc, when MiniMe was around, but the place became overrun with cat hair and embarrassment, Camp Leader and her computer took up residence on the dining room table amidst her mountains of daily detritus and that was that. Thank fuck. Not keen on the industrial cleaning required before Camp Leader lets any guests in here
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Post by Ladyfingers on Sept 28, 2022 8:50:01 GMT
Do any of you gaijin-in-Nippon ever cook western meals for friends and family? If so, how do they react? .....wft?..........Benny doesn't cook................or have any friends for that matter..........family?........on the other side of the world............ I never used to cook, because takeaways were so cheap in comparison, but lately I'm working from home and I cook this for myself every day. Only takes 25mins and it works out to about AUD8 a day, and it's so much better than any fast food options.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2022 8:57:46 GMT
..........looks good.........please come visit me...........and cook.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Sept 28, 2022 9:07:37 GMT
I would eat the shit out of that potato. Damn that looks good
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Post by Ladyfingers on Sept 28, 2022 9:32:40 GMT
I would eat the shit out of that potato. Damn that looks good Puncture all over with fork, brush with olive oil, microwave for 5 mins on one side, turn over and microwave for 3 mins on other side, then slice as depicted and pour meat juices from frying pan into the middle, adding salt and pepper to taste.
Oh, tip to microwaving potatoes is they're done when the skin starts wrinkling. Overly powerful microwaves turn them to leather, so some experimentation is necessary.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Sept 28, 2022 9:48:24 GMT
Whole meal is as follows: - Olive oil
- Salt
- Pepper
- 1/4 yellow pepper
- 1/4 green pepper
- 1-2 potatoes depending on size
- 2-3 carrots
- 1 truss tomato
- 1/2 red onion
- Meat of your choice
Wash all veg and cut to sizes shown, salt meat
Oil carrots lightly, microwave 6-7 minutes,
Oil pan and place onion, tomato and peppers in, start pan ~2 mins after carrots When carrots are done, oil potatoes and microwave for about 5-7 minutes depending on size Puncture potatoes and as first side of potatoes approaches end, flip all contents of pan, then flip potato and microwave for about 2-4 minutes All pan vegetables and potatoes should be done more or less at the same time, so put on plate, slice open potatoes
Use oil/juices in pan to fry meat, pepper meat when on plate
Pour oil/juices over potato (nice on carrots too)
Add salt and pepper to carrots, potato and onion
Goes well with beer.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Sept 28, 2022 10:10:27 GMT
pour meat juices from frying pan My vegan sister would probably start tearing up if she read that sentence
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